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CHAPTEE YII. 



CLASSIFICATION OF MOSSES. 



" Those who have leisure, opporttmity, and ahilities to contemplate and 

 consider any of these creatures, if they do it not, do, as it were, rob God 

 of some part of his glory in neglecting or slighting so eminent a subject of 

 it, and wherein they might have discovered so much art, wisdom, and con- 

 trivance." 



Teusting that our readers havcj from preceding chapters 

 and some personal examination of the structure of a Moss, 

 got such an amount of information as will enable them to 

 discover for themselves, with the aid of the descriptive por- 

 tion of the work, the names of the more common species 

 that are observed in their country walks or botanical ram- 

 bles, we intend forthwith to enumerate in the succeeding 

 pages the genera and species of this interesting family, re- 

 cognized as natives of the British Isles. 



