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brilliant deep blood colour, and the veil is equally observable. 
True it is that these peculiarities render the moss obvious at 
first sight, but as. the hand of the carver and polisher brings 
B. MARGIN ATUM. 1. Capsule. 2. Portion of a leaf. 
3. Leaf magnified. 
forth the excellence of cameos and gems, so do the lenses 
of the microscope alone reveal the exquisite perfections of 
Nature's minutest works. 
NOVEMBER. 
" Mosses are Nature's children. I have seen them 
Smile in their beauty on the lone sea-clift', 
By rushing torrents, or on herbless granite, 
Where nought beside, save some meek, pale-faced lichen 
"Would brook to linger." 
OTHER individuals of the genus Bryiun are deserving of 
minute inspection. Their numbers and varieties are such, 
however, as to render selection difficult ; we shall, there- 
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