BRITISH MOSSES. 71 



European species not found in Britain. The work of old 

 Dillenius (" Historia Muscorum "), though of course out 

 of date, is very delightful, and contains many excellent 

 plates, worthy of study even in the present day. 



One pleasant duty remains to be performed. Figures 

 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24 have been copied 

 from Schimper's " Eecherches sur les Mousses " ; Figures 

 16, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, from the same author's 

 " Entwickelungsgeschichte der Torfmoose " ; Figures 7, 8, 

 from Berkeley's " Handbook." For permission to use 

 these sets of figures I beg to thank respectively Messrs. 

 Freutel and Weitz, Mr. Schweizerbart, and Messrs. Lovell 

 Reeve and Co. ; nor can I omit to add my thanks to my 

 daughter, Agnes Fry, from whose drawings, partly original 

 and partly copies, most of the foregoing illustrations have 

 been taken. 



