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My GARDEN. 



blackbirds have found it out, and scratch up my mosses as badly as; 

 if not worse than, chickens. 



One great favourite of mine, Mnium undiilatum (fig. 817), which is 

 as beautiful as any filmy fern, I grow under glass. I have figured 



Fig. 816. — Funaria hygrometrica. 



Fig. 818.— Mnium cuspidatum. 



Fig. 817. — Mnium undulatum. 



also another species, M. cuspidatum (fig. 818), a little moss which 

 grows freely with us over rocks and stones. Sphagnum (fig. 819) does 

 not grow out of doors with me, although I have planted it again 

 and again. Th's is extensively used in the growth of our orchids. 



Fig. 8i9.-Sphagn„m acutifoKum. Fig. Sao.-Hypnum ruscifolium. Fig. 820. a-Hypnum splendens. 



We have in our streams the Hypnum ruscifolium (fig. 820). It 

 grows completely under the \vater, and the specimen from which the 



