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seen one plant, though only one, with a pseudocaudex, such as 

 Lastroea filix mas and dilatata occasionally have at home, about 

 18 inches long. It is one of the commonest of our ferns, and it 

 is strange, that if it does ever attain the height given, I should 

 never have seen one at all approaching to it. I am disposed to 

 think that there are no tree ferns in the Provinces. Those ferns, 

 whose habitats are trunks of trees, were dried up, such for instance 

 as some of the genus Davallia, otherwise the list would have been 

 much larger. 



Of Lycopodia, I met with two species, both pendulous ; Lycopo- 

 dium Phleymaria, and L. ulicifolium. Of Selaginella, two species, 

 I think, S. Willdenovii and S. flabellata. These were not in our 

 territory, but in the district of Kiouk-Koung. They do, however, 

 grow within our Provinces. 



Mosses are scarce in Burmah. Of terrestrial branched kinds like 

 our beautiful Ilypna, there are none, or scarcely any, and those on 

 trees are few, and nowhere in abundance. The only moss which 

 I have seen growing with anything like the luxuriance of those in 

 temperate climates, is Meteorium squarrosum, which, in damp dark 

 jungles, hangs gracefully from the small branches of the underwood to 

 the length of six or eight inches. This species, with Octoblepharis 

 albida and serrata, Leucoloma Taylori, Funaria hygrometrica, and 

 half a dozen others (barren) constitute my whole collection of mosses 

 made on this occasion. 



I have already alluded to the magnificent limestone rocks, at the 

 foot of which our path frequently lay. They are a striking feature 

 in the scenery of this part of the provinces. They have a general 

 course S. E. and N. W., and though now broken up into detached 

 masses and often separated by many miles, were plainly, at one 

 time, continuous. At Thonzoo (the three Pagodas) a distance of 

 some ninety miles, as the crow flies, from Moulmein, we seemed to 

 have reached nearly the last of these remarkable rocks, though not 

 the end of the limestone formation. The site of the (so-called) 

 three Pagodas (really nothing more than three heaps of stones 

 raised to mark our boundary in this direction) is nearly as rugged 

 as the top of one of them, worn away as the summits of all of 

 them are into needle-like points j the rocks protruding through the 



