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Hypnum. Differs from the two laft genera 
only, in a lateral filament from the/><?- 
richatlum. Of this genus there are fifty 
fpecies, about forty of which have been 
found in Britain. Curtis has Jiree of 
them. 
In Lightfoot's Flora Scotica, at the con- 
clufion of this laft Order of the Cryptogamia, 
you will find fome moral and very rational 
reflections on the ufe and importance of 
MofTes. 
ALGJE. Alga, you know, is a claffical 
word for Sea-weeds indifcriminately. Lin- 
nasus adopts it for the title of his third Or- 
' der of the Clafs Cryptogamia, comprehending 
thofe plants whofe roots, flem and leaves 
are all in one. Of thefe there are twelve 
genera, viz. 
Jungermannia: Male, pedunculate, naked; 
anther -a quadri valve. Female, fefllle, 
naked, feeds roundifli. We have thirty 
fpecles of this genus. There is a good 
engraving of they, complanata in Curtis. 
Targionia: Calyx bivalve, including a globe. 
Of this there is but one fpecies, called 
Hypophylla, or Vetch I'argionia. 
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