1 60 Gleanings in Old Garden Liter atiire. 



with scarcely any apparent soil to nourish 

 and support its roots. 



Mr. Lucas adds a table of the various 

 trees of which remains are traceable in the 

 peat. 



The nature of mosses was beginning to 

 be better understood in Charles II.'s day, 

 and the invention of the microscope 

 enabled the student to arrive at a more 

 accurate knowledge of the plant and its 

 mode of reproduction. It is interesting to 

 find that the uses of science were in this case 

 so promptly applied to practical purposes. 

 Hooke had published his Micrographia in 

 1667, and therein foreshadowed the 

 telephone. 





