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fifty feet. The branches are flattened and curve outward and 

 downward, and the capsules nestle on the under side hidden by 

 the peculiarly waved leaves of a grayish green. 



The name, Mossy Glen, gives wonderful scope for the imag- 

 ination, in the language of Anne of Green Gables, but a trip 



Fig. 5. Peristome of Haircap moss. 



there surpasses our wildest dreams in the delights it offers to 

 the moss student. The mountain stream comes tumbling down 

 from the heights, dashing over the rocks, spreading out into 

 mirror-like pools to rest and falling over precipices in numberless 

 cascades, scattering its spray over rocks and leaves and branches 

 that impede its progress. Here beside, and in the midst of, 

 this turbulent fitful stream, dwell, in the moist shady depths of 



