

THE SPHAGNACE^ 



OR 



PEAT- MOSSES 



OF 



'a 



EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA. 



BY 



R. BRAITHWAITE, M.D., F.L.S., Etc., 



SOC. CORRISP. DELLA SQCIETi^ CRITTOGAMOLOGICA ITALIANA. 



I 







" Muscus hie nuUi ex terrestribus similis est, sed faciem habet propriam, nee alibi 

 quam in udis et paludosis naseitur." — Dillen. 



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LONDON: 



HARDWICKE & BOGUE, 192, PICCADILLY, W. 



1878. 



