30 SEA MOSSES. 



of a given genus and species, interesting wholly lor 

 that fact. If it is a full grown typical form with 

 fruit, all the better. Now all are not botanists. 

 Most of those who will read these pages will have 

 an interest in these plants, to which the scientific 

 interest will be secondary. I want to say then to 

 them : look for the best things, get the whole 

 plant when you can, but get and preserve the 

 most perfect and beautiful plants. It is the rule 

 with the botanist to put but one species on each 

 paper or card ; I certainly advise disregarding this rule, 

 unless you are mounting for scientific purposes altogether 

 or chiefly. With the numberless shades of red which 

 one group of " Sea Mosses " will give you, with the 

 various kinds of green which the other two will 

 present, you will have opportunity to display all the 

 taste and skill you are master of. For in combining 

 several different colors and forms, on the same 

 paper, you 'may often produce the most brilliant 

 results. A little practice will soon make you able to 

 handle two or three plants at the same time in 

 " floating them out," almost as readily as you man- 

 age one. Then again, you will soon find it possible 

 with some of the more slender plants to work out 

 interesting and beautiful " designs " in the same way. 

 Initial letters, even monograms, may not be beyond 



