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LICHEN AND MOSS GARDENS. 
vided with bog, binding gravel, shale, a few decaying logs, and branches of trees, 
some rough pieces of limestone, tufa, freestone, and other stone convenient to the 
place, the more time-worn the better ; and a ditch, or large cistern of water, so 
that a portion of the plot might be half inundated and the rest readily supplied 
with moisture. If a small stream of water could be conveyed from a sufficient 
elevation in pipes to the top of the bank, and allowed to play through a fan-rose, 
it would be still more suitable. Ferns, heaths, and native orchidacese would 
serve to connect such a spot with the flower-garden. 
Perhaps some of the finest and rarer species might be suitably accommo- 
dated in a moderately capacious Wardian or other plant-case, with orchidaceae 
suspended in the upper portion. They would thus be capable of ministering to 
the enjoyment of townspeople, who have no other convenience for managing 
vegetable forms. 
The species represented in the wood-cut are, No. 1 . Hookeria lucens, a pretty 
bright-green Moss, inhabiting damp places ; 2. Bryum punctatum, a Moss with 
handsome broad foliage, usually found by the side of rills and in other moist situa- 
tions, or decaying wood ; 3. Funaria hygrometrica, a common plant, remarkable on 
account of the gyrating faculty of the seta, when touched with a drop of water — in 
dry weather the seta becomes twisted ; 4. Hypnum proliferum, one of the hand- 
somest of the Feather Mosses, either viewed singly, or as it grows in large 
patches, and found in almost every part of the world. 
