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filic‘inum, 
CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Hypnum. (C. 2} 
be well apres by the naked eye. Caps. reddish, at first 
straight, then ooked. The leaves smaller, not shining, the 
shoots more serpentine, and the bristly involucrum distinguish 
this from the Hypn. parietinum. Diiti. Hypz. ee an 
Hypn. proliferum of Gmel. syst. veg. are both ths same plant. 
Heaths and thick shady woods. P. Dec —ke . Curr. 
Covers the surface of the earth in the thickest woods through 
which the sun never shines, and wheré no other plant can grow. 
Linn. 
H. pet proliferous, nearly flat, shining: fruit-stalks 
er : involucram sca 
et Tyg 1-Dill, 35. 13—Buxb. ii. 1. ne and ii, 2. 1 
Happ. eae 3-Vaill. 29. 1-Schmid. 58. 3. 
nesting 4,5 jy OF more reste at the base of the 
grows in feagth at one end, the other end is converted into roots. 
Branches winged. The ne ww shoot puts forth in the spring not 
from the end of the old one, ae: near to its end; is very densely 
clothed with leaves, and after a time sends out branches. Fence 
scales reflected. Dirt. Both in this and in the Hypn. prolife. 
rum, the shoots resemble the winged leaves of Ferns. 
Woods, heaths and shady P. Feb b, March. 
It is used in Sweden to rate up the chinks in the “walls of 
timber houses 
H. Shoots simply winged : leaves oblong, taper pointers 
reflected, pointing one way : capsules nearly cylin 
ancéls lid con 
Fl. dan. 1123. ween! 29. 9-Dill. 36. 19. 
rtile shoots trailing, the barren ones upright. Prait-stalis 
1 or 5 inches lon ngs from the bosom of t Se Re 
Shoots from 3 to © inches, undivided, winged. Wi aby ay 
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place. Fence hairy. Capsules leaning. Lid conical, Morty 
blunt. We1s. Sometimes branched: always sending out nume- 
rous lateral-shoots, which are shorter as they grow nearer to the 
of the stem, ese very numerous, pleasant green, Lomi 
row, bent back. 
Marshy places, ‘al near springs. [Bungay, SD << 
TONE.} P, March, Hups,—Summer. 
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