jagged rock! Creatures full of pity! What unlovely sights of 

 decaying stumps and logs they tenderly beautify with their 



Fig. I. 



A, spore; B, germinating spore; C, protonema; D, bud. All much 

 magnified. 



mysterious traceries! How much disintegration they retard, 

 if not prevent, with the hold of their quiet fingers ! 



What important part mosses play in the making of the beauty 



