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or slippery with mud in the : sun, but on the grassy banks it is 
dry, and they exhale a delicious fragrance like that of’ the sweet 
blades of green have started, and the catkins above them are 
syeinen St. Patrick’s Day. Down in Virginia they celebrated 
entine’s Day by flinging out their pollen e blue 
livery of green. A scraping from their bark will reveal wonders. 
of cell-growth under the. microscope, and illustrate clearly the 
mysteries of symbiosis and the algo-lichen hypothesis. he tree- 
are still ae though the 
n 
sunshine penetrates into every 
shady nook of summer; the 
rosettes of the saxifrage and the 
green and tender leaves where 
they nestle in soft beds of Ayp- 
num and Anomodon on thé 
ee warm, sunny rocks of the grove. 
Fic. 9. haat hydrometica, It is well known why they are 
so forehanded ; they began their 
bridal preparations nine months ago, and folded up and laid 
away their trousseau in May and June ; they are ae getting 
ready to unpack it now. But many of. the mosses, notably 
the annual species like the cord-moss, Funaria Aygrometrica, 
Top-moss, ee ei turbinatum, do not wait 
until the early spring for their weddings fc) 
h 
os 
flowering plants do. ey are married in summer or early 
fall, and prefer a thunder storm or a rainy day instead of sun- 
i h 
ous grounds they were found last September and October, 
