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with our valuable countryman Dillenius, " Ut 

 cognoscamus sapientiam Creatoris, quce in mini- 

 mis non minus elucet, quam in magnis plantis f* 

 for we find in these diminutive objects, the most 

 beautiful and the most unexpected structures, ad- 

 mirably fitted for their respective functions. We 

 find external habit as strongly marked in the slen- 

 der Hypnum, — in the almost invisible Phascum, as 

 in the Lord of the Forest, the old Oak grown hoary 

 in many centuries. We find them various in their 

 fruit and in their foliage, each fitted to its peculiar 

 residence, and changing their character like the 

 higher vegetables, as they approach the southern or 

 northern hemisphere. Yet we will not be content- 

 ed with mere beauty and fitness : Uses have been 

 discovered in these obscure tribes of plants that 

 were unlooked for; and we may reasonably con- 

 clude, that other uses will still be found, perhaps im- 

 portant ones, from the influx of new species. 



I now proceed to lay before the Society, an enu- 

 meration of such Cryptogamous Plants as fell under 

 my notice, during a three months residence in De- 

 vonshire. In the form of notes, I shall insert oc- 

 casional observations, with a few new facts relative 

 to some of the Fuci of that county, — a tribe of 

 plants, of which I hope to be able to publish a Sy- 

 nopsis at no very distant period. 



In order to render a part of my enumeration 

 more complete, I shall introduce a few plants 



