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Xor yet has tlic Feathered Watcr-inosg (F. pennata], nor 
the Hair-like (F. cajnlhicca), neither the Alpine (F. alpina], 
nor even the Lateral (F. secunda), been discovered in the 
neighbourhood of London, except in some old apple-orchard. 
The first, extremely rare, is assigned to the trunk of trees ; 
it is mentioned by Mr. "Drummond, in his "History of 
Britisli Mosses," as growing on a beech-tree at Tothering- 
ton, near Forfar ; the second embellishes the stony banks 
of many an alpine rivulet in Scotland and Wales. Bota- 
nists may find it beside the gushing rills of the pass of 
Llanberris, within sight of Dolbaden's ruined tower ; the 
third clusters, as already mentioned, on trees in orchards, 
and draws nearer to the vicinity of man than either the 
Hair-like or Alpine. 
The Leafy Buxbaumia (B. foliosa) must not be passed 
unnoticed. This plant, of frequent occurrence, especially 
in mountainous and open places, visited by the purest air 
of heaven, was named by Linnaeus in honour of Dr. Bux- 
baum, a distinguished botanist, who sought out and enu- 
merated such plants as grew around his native city Hoi, in 
the Tyrol. Its relative, the Leafless Buxbaumia (13. apliyllti}, 
may be often discovered among fir-trees. This most sin- 
gular of mosses can scarcely be said to have any stems ; all 
that might be so called resemble a small bulb, covered with 
hair-like processes, but which, when highly magnified, are 
found to be true leaves, membranaceous, comparable to 
beautiful net- work, yet so narrow and minute as to be 
quite overlooked, or described merely as hairs. The whole 
moss is not an inch high ; it presents a striking appearance 
when growing among others of the kind, being of a red 
colour. 
The blood-coloured, or Obtuse-leaved Gland-moss (Splach- 
num vasculosuni) is the finest and most beautiful of all Bri- 
tish mosses ; the fruit -stalk is one inch and a half high r 
upright and red, the receptacle large, spear-shaped, of a 
bright sanguineous hue, the fringe composed of eight minute 
