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upright, ‘ eetiund. Weis. Many. g ing together as if 
from one root, but each rps has its bees rate, though some~ 
times 2 or 3 shoots spring from one root. eots not branched, 
ort, reclini Leaves eae not pellucid. Capsules small, 
upright, oblong, green. Veil very small, greenish. Lid scar- 
= wa ruit-stalks reddish, issuing from near the end of the 
and without any evident involucrum. Dirt, Mid-rib of 
the Teac pellucid Mr. Stack 
Fissidens brycides. Hedw. Shady places, woods, and ditch 
banks, A. Feb,—May. 
A. (2) Unbranched, winged with leaves. Capsules leaning. 
denticula’tum H, Seldom branched : fruit-stalks from the base : capsules 
cylindrical : lid blunt: leaves wedge-shaped, acute, 
in pairs, 2-rowed, 
Dill. 34. 5-H. ox. xv. 6. row 1. 36-Vaill. 29. 8. 
Leafts triangularly egg-shaped, hooked. Wesser. Shoots 
several, dying. n the ground, £ to 14 inch long, seldom branch- 
ed. Leaves in a double row on each ‘side, = pres olinings 
length. Capsules ae itebghe Breres by the veil, ori 
is of a straw colour ; becoming bent as it approaches to maturity. 
Lid short. Dit 
, and moist shady places on the ground, and on trunks 
of trees. P. March, April. 
asplenioi/des. H. Dey upright: fruit-stalks terminating : capsules 
ad cylindrical ; beak bent: leafits spear-shaped, 
’ Dicks. b. s. and fase. 5, 
Habit that of H. adiantoides, but snes and the fruit-stalk 
always terminating. Leaves tiled at the base, almost embracing 
the stem, spear-shaped, bluntish, ees! keeled, the midrib 
reddish, sometimes rolled in — the ends, Beak slanting, white, 
as long as the capsule. Dic 
Bogs in the Highlands, men Ben Lomond. 
A. (3) Branched; winged with leaves: capsules leaning. 
ers H, Leaves oblong, blunt, hollowed on = ee edge : 
capsules nearly cylindrical : beak b 
Dill, ote 8, 
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