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" 'Tis God has bid the barren ground produce this strange small thinj, 

 On which whole countless herds of deer are ever pasturing, 

 For in the woods of scattered Pine abundantly it grows, 

 And clothes the earth for many a mile beneath the tractless snows, 

 And the sagacious Reindeer delves, and scents his onward way, 

 Until he reach the mossy food that doth his toil repay. 



" And thus we find in every clime, things beautiful and fair, 

 Each fitted to fulfil its task of use and beauty there, 

 And I remember thinking so, when a little child I read, 

 The history of the good Reindeer, and the moss whereon they fed." 



Twamley. 



Note. The last orders require but little care in drying. The Lichens 

 may be left in the sun or the air for an hour or two, and then placed upon 

 paper with a little gum water. Should you wish to separate a Lichen 

 from a stone or tree, it is necessary to wet it first, that it may not be so 

 liable to break to pieces, but even then it is often a very difficult matter. 



SEA WEEDS. ALGM. 



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1. Frond of Laminaria saccharina, Strapwort. 2. Fucus nodosus, or 

 Knotted Fucus. 3. Fucus vesicularis, or Bladdery Fucus. 4. Fucus ser- 

 ratus. 5. Conferva rivularis, or River-Silk. 



Under the class of Sea Weeds are included all Water Plants 

 which do not bear flowers, (except two Ferns and three or four 

 Mosses.) Thus some of them are found in the inland ditches 

 and ponds. To distinguish one from the other these are called 

 Fresh-water Algae, and those growing in the sea are called 

 Marine Algse. The structure of all of them is very simple, 

 their fruit or seed is borne generally in little swellings, either 

 within the frond or on the edge of it, though sometimes they 

 bear no seed at all but the plants are increased by breaking 

 into pieces, when each piece grows. Some of them are of the 

 most elegant forms, and all the smaller kinds are the finest 

 possible objects for the miscroscope, showing many wonderful 

 contrivances and singular arrangements of simple cellular matter, 

 (for no vessels can be distinctly discovered in any of them.) 



