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The mosses of Iowa City and vicinity by Annette Slotterbec, 1888

The Mosses of Iowa City and Vicinity by Annette Slotterbec, 1888, Page 5

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their painful traces, "covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin laying their quiet finger on the trembling stones to teach them rest: Smallest and most insignificant of objects there is a much beauty of form and ingenuity of structure as though they [illegible] the [illegible] monarchs of the forest. In this nature seems to have compensated for the want of the various and gorgeous coloring granted to the higher tribes of vegetation. Mosses belong to the [faleaceaus?], or highest division of flowerless plants, the Bryophyta, a
 
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