Russell on Crypto gamous Plants. 141 



nature employs her energy, and furnishes with matchless 

 and exquisite contrivances these lowly flowers, which 

 bloom " unseen." Nor surely is it necessary to find out 

 the baser use to which every thing can be applied : that the 

 stars of the earth are scattered with a profusion Itke that 

 of the stars of the sky, doth show, in their abundance and 

 beauty, and in harmonious unison, the consummate work- 

 manship of the " Hand Divine." 



Musci (Mosses). 



Volytricimm juniperinum. Willd : {^Juniper-leaved Hair 

 moss) [cit : HookerJ English Flora. Vol. V. Part 1, p. 49. 

 Muscologia Britannica, 2d Edition, p. 45, Tab. X. ! 



Orthotrichuni crispum. Hedw : {Curled-leaved bristle 

 moss.) [cit. Hook.] Eng. PI. ]. c. p. 56. Muse. Brit. 

 &c. 1. c. Tab. XXI. On the bark of various kinds of 

 trees. 



Drtimmondia proi'epens. Hook. Synonyms. Anaden- 

 tium ])rorepens ! Palisot de Beauvais. [cit. Bridel.] Spe- 

 cies Muse. 1. p. 41. Gymnostomura prorepens ! Hedw. 

 Bark of trees ; rather common. 



Bfyum turbindtum. Swartz. [cit. Hook] Eng. Fl. 1. c. 

 p 61. Muse. Brit. &c. 1. c. Tab. XXIX ! A pretty spe- 

 cies with bright fruit-stalks, growing on wet mountainous 

 places. All the Brya are remarkable for their beauty, and 

 rank as gems among our northern mosses. 



LicHENEs (Lichens). 



Cetrdria lacunosa. — Acharius's Synopsis Lichetium, &c. 

 p. 227. Growing on sprigs of spruce, and occurring with 

 apothecia (seed-like disks, in which are found the propa- 

 gating germs). 



Evernia vulpina. — Ach. Syn. p. 245. A very common 

 species of lichen, rare with apothecia in the vicinity of Bos- 

 ton, but occurring in this condition at the subalpine station 

 above noticed. 



Endocdrpon smaragddtum. — Ach. Syn. p. 98. Eng. 

 Fl. 1. c. p. 158, This minute lichen, whose fronds are 

 scarcely larger than a pin's head, is found growing on gneiss 

 rocks, which occur among the granite and primitive for- 

 mations. 



