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covering bare places with velvet carpets and mats of green. 

 Some are so small that they cannot be seen with the naked eye. 

 Mushrooms are of a lower class, and they are not ornamental 

 in any sense. They are of use as foods, or for 

 flavoring. 



Mold, or mildew, which grows on stale bread 

 and other things which are left in the damp, is 

 a sort of mushroom fungi. 



TRUE Moss 

 (natural size) BLACK MOLD OF BREAD (greatly enlarged) 



Mushrooms, ferns, and mosses are land plants. Though they 

 choose damp, dark places for growth, they must have soil. 



We must not confuse the algce, or seaweed, found on the sea- 

 shore in red, green, or brown masses, with mosses. They are 

 water-plants, not mosses. The alga? bear seeds and flowers. 

 Neither is the "hanging moss" of Florida a true moss. It also 

 bears seeds and flowers. True mosses have neither seeds nor 

 flowers. 



