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plants, and having the piftil florets folitary, or 
growing in cones. Their feeds have no co- 
tyledons, or any proper coverings. Linfieus 
doubts, whether what he has called anthers 
might not, with greater propriety, take the 
name of capfules, and their duft be confidered 
as true feeds, as in Buxbaumia, and fome other 
genera, have been feen within the covers real 
duft-bearing anthers depending from their 
filaments, gaping at the top to difcharge their 
duft on the fringes, as on piftils. Dillenius, 
profelTor of botany at Oxford, was the firft 
who attempted an arrangement of the mofles. 
There are many curious circumftances be- 
longing to the tribe of moifes, one of which 
is> their having this Angular property, that, 
though preferved dry for feveral years, upon 
being moiftened they refume their original 
verdure, and probably their power of vege- 
tation ; an experiment eafy to be made. 
The fructification of the flags, or algas, is fo 
obfcure as not to admit of precife arrange- 
raent; they are only divided into terreftrial 
and aquatic, and the genera diftinguifhed by 
their outer ftructure. This order contains 
many curious and ufeful vegetables ; among 
the latter there is none more worthy of notice 
than the lichen rangiferinus. This little plant 
H 4 may 
