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a ffreat ornament to our woodland scenery. Its leaves are 

 frequently clothed with the Conferva we have mentioned as 

 infesting the 0. LijelUi. Barren plants have a tendency to 

 creep. 



" Here amid 

 The silent majesty of these deep woods, 

 Bright mosses crept over the spotted trunks." 



16. Orthotrichum pulchellum, Sm. {Elegant Bris- 

 tle 3Ioss.) Stems creeping, short ; leaves narrow-lanceolate, 

 crisped when dry ; teeth of the peristome sixteen, approach- 

 ing in pairs, patent (red) ; calyptra almost glabrous, plaited 

 at the hase.—Ung. Fl. p. 56 ; M/ill. Sj/n. pL 1. ;;. 711. 



On trunks of trees, in various districts of the country, 

 seeming to prefer those that are subalpine. Near Manches- 

 ter, Mr. Hobson. Ballinascorney Glen, near Dublin, Taylor. 

 We have found it near Cushendall, co. Antrim. Fr. May. 

 This ]\Ioss well deserves the specific name given to it by 

 Smith, as it is an exceedingly neat species. Distinguished 

 from others by having sixteen ciliary processes connected 

 with the peristome. Tht calyptra is plicate and almost 

 smooth. According to Mr. Wilson, the capsule is "gene- 

 rally tuberculated." 



