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LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



2. This moss (Bartramia font ana, the 

 female plant) agrees in many respects with 

 the preceding, but differs in the following 

 particulars. The roots or shoots of the 

 preceding year are quite black, while those 

 of the present season are of a paler or 

 whitish green ; nor are the scaly leaves so 

 far remote from each other as that the red 

 stem appears so regularly between them. 

 The plants are also more branched, and 

 less curved. In the last pface, this is a 

 fruit-bearing kind, having purple stalks 



