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its beautiful fruit and roseate flowers in profusion *. — We have many 

 others that are very ornamental. I envy no wiseacre who can un- 

 heeding pass by a patch of Polytrichum commune when in fruit : I 

 can sit down to feel the softness of every cushion of Dicranum sco- 

 parium. 



" a bank of moss 



Spongy and swelling, and far more 

 Soft than the finest Lemster ore." 



I am ever pleased with the singular beauty of Hypnum proliferum, — 

 with the neat mimicry of arboreous elegance in the Hypnum den- 

 droides : and other Hypna please me where, in our hazled deans, 

 they lap over rocks, and shelving banks, and twisted roots, in 

 cushions of luxurious softness, most fit for a botanist to repose on as he 

 lunches, or re-arranges the contents of his overloaded vasculum : and 

 who has not admired the H3rpnum commutatum as it hung, in plumy 

 dark-green masses, over the front of some dripping rock, encrusting 

 itself with the calcareous ingredients of the water that oozes through 

 the spongy mass ? 



In another view the Dicranum bryoides is the most interesting of 

 our mosses in its associations. When Mungo Park had laid himself 

 down to perish in the midst of the vast wilderness, he was roused 

 from his despair by the sight of a moss, — and this moss was Dicra- 

 num bryoides ! See Flora of Berwick, ii. p. 48 f . 



IV. Hepatic^ = Htbttiuorti^. 



1. Jungermannia asplenioides. 20. Jungermannia reptans. 



2. crenulata. 21. trilobata. 



3. emarginata. 22. platyphylla. 



4. inflata. 23. ciliaris. 



5. excisa. 24. tomentilla. 



6. ventricosa. 25. serpyllifolia. 



7. bicuspidata, 26. dilatata. 



8. byssacea. 27. tamarisci. 



9. connivens. 28. trichomanis. 



10. pusilla. 29. pinguis. 



11. nemorosa. 30. multifida. 



12. undulata. 31. epiphylla. 



13. resupinata. 32. furcata. 



14. albicans. 33. • pubescens. 



15. complanata. 34. Marchantia polymorpha. 



16. scalaris. 35. conica. 



17. bidentata. 36. Anthoceros punctatus. 



18. heterophylla. 37. Riccia glauca. 



19. barbata. 



♦ Linn. Fl. Lapp. p. 335. Eng. Bot. vi. 390. 



t I could wish that my readers would here consult Mr. Ward's work on 

 the Growth of Plants in Glazed Cases, p. 61-64. 



