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and fungi are not introduced. 1 Clifford and Linnaeus 

 were not conversant with mosses. The Dutch connois- 

 seurs were all devoted to exotic plants, especially those 

 from America. LinnaBus says of himself, ' I do not profess 

 to be even a tyro in mosses. Holland produces very 

 few of this tribe, in which Sweden abounds.' ' Such 

 plants as are not to be found in Sweden are distinguished 

 by the italic type, and of these there are nearly three 

 hundred. A list is subjoined of one hundred, which the 

 author could not fully investigate.' 2 



At Oxford, it has been well said, everything depends 

 upon the society you fall into. If this be uncongenial 

 the place can have no other attractions, besides its 

 scenery, than those of a town full of good libraries. Dr. 

 Arnold quotes the views of Oxford from 'the pretty 

 field,' or from St. John's Gardens, as among the per- 

 fectly beautiful scenes in the earth. He was an enthu- 

 siast on Thames scenery, particularly specifying that 

 near Oxford c the streams, the copses, the solitary rock 

 by Bagley Wood, the heights of Shotover, the broken 

 field behind Ferry Hincksey, with its several glimpses 

 of the distant towers and spires.' 



Like Dr. Arnold, Linnaeus found ' some of the scenes 

 at the junction of the heath country with the rich valley 

 of the Thames very striking,' though doubtless more so 

 from the rich variety of their flora than on account of 

 their merely picturesque aspect. Both of these great 



1 Smith. * Ibid. 



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