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teeth, in pairs. Alpine tourists speak of it as growing in 
bogs, and on the pointed masses of high storm- rifted moun- 
tains, such as Ben Lomond, and in extended patches as on 
Ben Lawers, and the Clova mountains. 
Another of the same family deserves hrief mention. This 
is the purple Bottle or Gland-moss (S. ampullaceum), which 
localizes on bogs and marshes, often also on cow's manure ; 
growing about Ichen' Ferry near Southampton, at West 
"Wickham, Addington near Croydon, Geldestone Fen, Bun- 
gay, and Suffolk. Ray mentions the second locality in his 
" Synopsis of British Plants ;" the association of his name 
with a species still sought by modern botanists in the same 
lone spot, invests it with no small interest. Kor less 
attractive is it when found in a tributary stream north of 
Tyfry, between that place and Hendref, in Anglesea, in. 
place where Druids dwelt, and where traces of their foot- 
steps were found till lately, among circles of unhewn stones 
and cromlechs ; this place is mentioned by Mr. Davies as 
well deserving the attention of all botanists, whether in 
quest of plants or mosses, and also in each season of the 
year. The veil is exquisitely bell-shaped, the receptacle 
large, and resembling an inverted decanter with a convex 
lid; and the fruit -stalks, two or three inches long, are 
beautifully crimsoned. By attending to these character- 
istics the youngest botanist may identify the Purple Bottle- 
moss, which ripens its capsules in July. 
Others of the same family occupy spongy ground, or moist 
places in alpine rocky districts, near Llyn Idwell, Carnar- 
vonshire ; or on Ben Lawers in the Highlands. Among 
these, the Tongue-leaved Gland-moss (S. lingulatum], with 
deeply indented leaves formed into cavities, and variable 
fruit-stalk of a deep red, has attracted much attention, 
both for its rarity and the difficulty of determining its 
genus. It was first discovered in Scotland by Mr. Dixon, 
and since on Ben Lawers and Ben Lomond by two brother 
botanists; afterwards by Professor Hooker in muddy de- 
