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We have elsewhere observed that every plant and flower 
has its winged or creeping resident, nay, every locality and 
soil: "As for the stork, the fir-trees are her house; the 
high hills are a refuge for the wild goats, and the rocks for 
the conies." (Ps. civ. 17, 18.) 
Even the humblest moss that grows on cottage thatch or 
wall, in moist shady woods, or about the roots of trees and 
hedges, shelters some tiny insect, that finds therein a home 
and store-house. On tbe leaves of this simple moss, and 
also upon the Dicranum bryoides, or Bryum-like feather- 
moss, in Wallington Woods, Northumberland, a minute and 
elegant insect, the Leangeum Trevelyani, may sometimes 
be discovered. None, perhaps, among the insect tribes are 
more radiantly beautiful, or more attractive from its 
symmetry, delicate formation, and varied hues, than this 
minute creature. The eye gazes upon it with extreme de - 
light; and though thus minute, it is endowed with even' 
requisite faculty for enjoyment ; and how know we whether 
this charming little being, which presents one of the love- 
liest objects in creation, does not especially rejoice in the 
fairy-formed home wherein she dwells ? 
Nor less worthy of regard is the Bryum hygrometricum of 
Huds, the Furaria hygrometrica of Roth and Hook, and the 
Minium hygrometricum of Withering ; for such are the 
various appellations assigned to the Revolving fringe-moss. 
This tribe is common in woods and heaths* on garden walks, 
old trees and walls, among decayed wood, and where coals 
and cinders have lain. We remember our favourite walk 
in a shrubbery, where the Revolving fringe -moss grew so 
luxuriantly as to form a carpet of verdure. Children re- 
sorted in summer to that shady walk, and therefore the 
green covering was continually trodden upon, although re- 
newing its beauty and freshness whenever dews were heavy, 
or passing showers watered that wild spot. In places rarely 
visited the case was otherwise ; there the stems of the Re- 
volving fringe-moss rose from one to two inches in height, 
