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Excerpt from Twenty Lessons on British Mosses: Second Series, Illustrated With Twenty-Five Specimens Pursuant to my promise, I have now much pleasure in renewing our acquaintance, and soliciting your attention to a second course of lessons on our native Mosses. The subject is not soon exhausted; for the objects treated of, though small, are numerous, and each has more to tell of its own beautiful structure and associations than the Space I in tend to occupy will permit. AS in the first series, my aim Shall be rather to enlist your good-will to the study of these plants, than enter fully into scientific detail. This will be best accomplished by presenting Specimens of the plants them selves, and pointing out some of their peculiarities, and the rich store of instructive entertainment they are calculated to afford - convinced that where a love for them is excited, fur ther inquiry will follow as a matter of course. What an interest it adds to a rural walk, when we are able to distinguish, as so many friends, the various plants we meet with, and to call each of them by a name as familiar to us as their own lovely forms The trees, the owers, and even the little lichens and mosses, become thus more endeared, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.