he had cast himself down to d ie ; the beauty of its minute foliage
brought to perfection in the d'esert, at once raised his eye
to that Power which had not failed to nourish the delicate
structure it had created: and is there any one of taste and
right feeling, in whose breast some similar emotion does not
arise at the sight of so perfect a form as that of our minute
Leangium ?
I t is not without much pleasure that I am enabled to dedicate
this plant to its discoverer, my esteemed friend W . C.
T r e v e l y a n , Esq.
1 cannot but consider its genus as rather uncertain, not merely
on account of the very small columella, but chiefly from the
pediceUated sporules, which do not often occur in the Gastromyci,
and have not been noticed by any author as belonging
to the genus Leangium.
Fig. 1. L . Trevelyani, nat. size. Fig. 2. A leaf o f the Bryum removed, with
plants. Fig. 3. A single plant bursting. Fig. 4. A plant, having lost its
contents. Fig. S. Filaments and sporules.— All except Fig. 1. more or less
magnified.