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174 NEW BRITISH MOSSES. 
Bryum uliginosum also approaches closely to Br. inclina- 
tum; but as B. and S. remark: * Notre plante se distingue 
également bien du Br. inclinatum par la couleur pile de sa 
capsule, par le dos bombé de cette dernière, et enfin par les 
dents fortement infléchies par la dessication, laissant sortir 
dans leurs interstices les processus redressés.” S 
5. Hypnum elodes, nov. sp. ; caule tenui, ramoso, ramis pmi- 
natis; folis laxe imbricatis, caulinis patulis, lanceolatis; 
longe acuminatis, ramulinis erecto-patulis vel subsecundis, 
subulatis; omnibus integerrimis, nervo perdurante. 
Has. In wet places on Stockton Forest, near York; grow 
ing with H. scorpioides and lycopodioides, Schw. (H. adun- 
cum, var.); Aug. 1842. ; SSA 
Stems about 3 inches long, procumbent or (where closely 
tufted) erect, irregularly branched, the branches pinnate. 
Leaves brownish, the terminal ones assuming a tinge % 
green, loosely set; the cauline ones patent, narrow-ovato- 
lanceolate with a long acumination and a slightly excurrent 
nerve; those of the branches erecto-patent, very - 
(except the upper ones which are subsecund, especially when 
dry), subulate or even subulato-setaceous, nerved to | 
point; all entire. : E 
Although I have not met with the fruit of this Hypnu®” 
its habit is so distinet from any other with which lau 
acquainted, that I venture (with the sanction of M. ; 
to propose it as new. Its nearest ally is perhaps the ner ^" 
leaved variety of Hypnum stellatum (H. chrysophyllum, PP 
H. polymorphum, Musc. Brit., nec Hedw.) ; but this G% 
in the far more closely set, squarrose leaves, which are n 
broader (ovato- or cordato-acuminate), the nerve not extending 
beyond the middle, and more slender, and the | 
wider (cellules shorter and broader) H. H. fluitans, fim 
and fuviatile approach it on the other hand; however ! 
all differ from itin the form of the leaves. From the first 
these the constantly percurrent nerve will assist in d 
guishing it, and from the second the entire leaves and 
