16 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Such in outline is the course of the life of a Moss in its 

 fullest and most complete circuit : like every other history 

 of the growth and change of an organism, it fills one with 

 wonder and amazement. Think of all the promise and 

 potentiality which is wrapped up in every little spore of 

 every little Moss, and we can no more account for it or 

 understand it than we can for the creation of the starry 

 host or of the infinite wonders of the human mind. 



In the table following, the life-history, as I have 

 already traced it, is represented by the first column under 

 the head of Moss : 



