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upon it! The stems were several inches long, and 

 irregularly branched, and the foliage was dark coloured, 

 oval and somewhat complanate. The urns were thick, 

 and had lids with long beaks. Upon the wet rocks, 

 watered by the spray from the cascade, another Hyperum 

 was growing and displaying its urns, which had also 

 beaked lids. The leaves were spreading, the stems several 

 inches long, beset with numerous slender branches ; it 

 was the Curled Feather moss (H. commutatum). 

 Afterwards we found it on dripping rocks in the Clink 

 Bank wood near Eichmond, and there it was coated with 

 lime which filtered from the rock. In the higher part 

 of the wood was a wide mat of a branched moss, evidently 

 a Feather moss. The stems were four or five inches 

 long, twice pinnate, and closely beset with oval pointed 

 glossy leaves, it was the Shining Feather moss (H. 

 splendens), and had urns upon it, oval, and with a beaked 

 lid. It is not common in fruit. 



The Plumy Crested Feather moss I found afterwards 

 in a thicket on the border of the Wiltshire Downs. The 

 leaves are heart shaped, ending in long points which 

 curl round, the stems are pinnate, the branches tapering 

 elegantly. It is remarkably soft, a velvety looking moss, 

 its foliage a yellow green (H. molluscum). 



We have the Scorpion Feather moss (H. scorpioides). 

 with its long steins, but slightly branched, its lurid 

 twisted foliage and bent urn ; the Neat Mountain Feather 

 moss (H. pulchella, Plate VII., Jig. 9), with its minute 

 fresh green branchlets, and nearly erect urn ; the Hook- 

 leaved species (H. hamulosum) yellow in tint, and 

 branched and clusters ; and the Ostrich Plume Feather 



