By this time we have become so interested in our newly found 

 acquaintance, whom we have passed by so many years with 

 scarcely a glance, that we are ready to brave the weather and 

 between showers seek a familiar path in the woods. Who 

 would imagine that dead, decaying old logs could be made such 

 objects of beauty? It is nature's pall of her most exquisite 



Fig. 3. Capsule, with calyptra removed. 



embroidery. Looking closer, we shall find more than one species 

 of the great Hypnum family, rather difficult to identify as to 

 species, but we shall have no trouble in determining a few of 

 them. The Hypnums are all prostrate or creeping and form 

 more or less dense mats on soil, rotten wood or stones, and some- 

 times are found submerged. One of the most common is the 



