FERNS AXD ilOSSES. 55 
W. Jiyperborea. " Frond linear, lanceolate, pinnate 
under surface clothed with soft hairs ; pinnse nearly ovate, 
obtuse at the base, unequally cuneate, nearly sessile (or 
stalkless), obtusely lobato-pinnatifid ; masses of thecsc 
becoming nearly confluent, or running one into the other ; 
stripes smooth ; rachis pilose." 
W. ilrensis. "Frond oblong, pinnate hairy beneath ; 
pinnso opposite, lanceolate, pinnatifid the lobes oblong, 
obtuse, lower ones spreading ; masses of theca? confluent ; 
stripes and rachis scaly -villose, or soft-haired. A small 
portion of the rachis is naked, the veins irregularly distri- 
buted, the mid- vein is not to be traced without difficulty, 
no single vein appearing superior to the rest, none reach- 
ing the margin, and each at its extremity bearing a mass of 
thecse." 
We have recommended the introduction of different kinds 
of moss in Ferneries, both on account of their beauty and 
utility. Nature places them together ; wherever the fern 
spreads forth her ample fronds, there the simple moss 
nestles beneath their shade the one shelters her humble 
friend from the fierce beams of a noonday sun the other 
gratefully protects the roots of her benefactress from 
drought, by imbibing and retaining whatever moisture is 
afforded by night-dews ; a fact thus beautifully exemplified 
in the following admirable lines : 
FERXS AJTD MOSSES; OR, THE LINKS BY WHICH SOCIETY IS HELD 
TOGETHER. 
There was fern on. the mountain and moss on the moor 
The ferns were the rich and the mosses the poor ; 
And the glad breeze hlew gaily from heaven it came 
And the fragrance it shed over each was the same ; 
And the warm sun shone brightly, and gilded the fern, 
And smiled on the lowly-born moss in its turn ; 
And the cool dews of night on the mountain-fern fell, 
And they glisten'd upon the green mosses as well. 
