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and perfectly evolved. Along with the young, were 

 old plants having the usual appearance of F. squa- 

 mosa, hut rather more luxuriant, very long, and in 

 fine fructification. I may here mention a circum- 

 stance that I have hitherto uniformly ohserved in 

 this moss, viz. that when dry it has a strong smell, 

 not very unlike that of some woollen cloths before 

 the oil is washed out. This smell I never could 

 find in F. antipyretica. 



In Devonshire, I gathered the same plant in the 

 stream in which Dr Hooker had before found it ; 

 it was most abundan, but produced no fruit. 



(7.) Bartramia arcuata. 



This splendid Bartramia, peculiar to this coun- 

 try, produces fruit in the greatest abundance, on a 

 bank on the left-hand side of the road, as ytou go 

 from the village of Lidford to the Water-fall. The 

 bank is a few yards on the opposite side of the 

 stream which crosses the road, and supplies the 

 fall. This moss produces capsules also on Caw- 

 sand, but not freely. 



(8.) Fucus hypoglossum. 



Mr Turner, in his Synopsis of the British Fuci, 

 as well as in his admirable Historia Fucorum, 

 seems to have fallen into an error in supposing 

 that this plant appears only at a certain time 



