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Doctor Smith one of the highest sources of grati¬ 
fication attending upon this and similar pursuits, 
“ the anticipation of the pleasure he may have 
“ to bestow on kindred minds with his own, in 
“ sharing with them his discoveries and his 
“ acquisitions.” # But a richer field is open 
before him in the class Cryptogamia . The Mus- 
cologia of the country is little known, and 
I am sure, from what I myself found, that 
many new and rare species would reward a 
careful search among this tribe, though, like 
me, he might seek in vain for the magnificent 
Splachna of the Norwegian and Lapponian Alps, 
ruhrum and luteam , two plants that I had 
most earnestly reckoned upon gathering. Tor- 
tula tortuosa , Polytrichum sexangulare , and 
hercynicum , the former always barren, as in 
Scotland, Buxbaumia foliosa , Dicranum pusil- 
lum , Hypnum revolvers , Silesianum , and Jila- 
mentosum , Meesia dealbata , Conostomum boreale , 
Splachnum vasculosum , and urceolatum , Trichos - 
ionium elllpticum , Fontinalls squamosa , and fal- 
cata , both abundantly provided with capsules, 
and Encalypta alpina , as well as many other 
mosses, which I cannot with any degree of cer¬ 
tainty now call to my remembrance, are met with 
upon the lava, in the morasses, or in the rapid 
* Preface to the Introduction to Botany. 
