Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. arcticum. Fig. and section magnified. Schimper, in his recently published Musci EuropaeiNovi, Fascic. 3, and characterized as follows :— * The strise as shown in the figures are not intended torepresent the distance apart as described in the text, but thegeneral appearance of the valve as seen by oblique light. Juli- 1,1867.] HAUDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 159 D. arcticum, Schpr. Monoicous, crcspitosc, withouttomentum, 2 to 5 inches high, simple or dicho-tomou
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. arcticum. Fig. and section magnified. Schimper, in his recently published Musci EuropaeiNovi, Fascic. 3, and characterized as follows :— * The strise as shown in the figures are not intended torepresent the distance apart as described in the text, but thegeneral appearance of the valve as seen by oblique light. Juli- 1,1867.] HAUDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 159 D. arcticum, Schpr. Monoicous, crcspitosc, withouttomentum, 2 to 5 inches high, simple or dicho-tomous (fig;. 168), leaves erccto-patent, rarely subse-cuud, nearly straight, the lowest minute, lanceolate,nerveless, upper from an oblong; base, lanceolate-subulate, quite entire, very concave, the marginincurved so as to form a channelled subula (fig. 162).Alar cells orange-brown, quadrate, nerve narrow,compressed (fig. 170). Capsule (fig. 171) cernuous, -•. Fig. 170. Base ofleaf magnified. Fig. 1/1. Capsule. subarcuate, strumose, not striate. Anuulus rostrate. Teeth purple, cleft to middle. Thelocalities on the tickets are Cairn-Taggart, andLoch-na-Neem, and the species will rank next toDicranum Starkii.—B. Braitlncaite, , NILE MUD. THE mud brought down by the Nile in suchimmense quantities at the period of theinundation (for at other times the water is almostpure) is in part distributed over the level land,thereby enriching the soil; a part is deposited iu thebeds of the river and canals, and a large quantity iscarried into the sea. When the Nile is on the rise,the water gradually becomes turbid, and finallyassumes a reddish hue. This is of course owing tothe large quantity of sand and clay which it bringswith it in its rapid course from the upper mud which is deposited iu the bed of the river,when exposed to the sun and dried, immediatelyturns into sand ; even by watering occasionallyit willnot ass
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