CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. ‘Hypnum. (C. 3) 837 
H. Branches near together ;. bowed back. Crista-cas- 
Dicks. b. s-Vaill. 27. 14~Dill. 36.2 tren’sis, 
very much resembles an ostrich feather Pia its shining 
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parallel rays, by which, and by its silky hue, it is ane dis. 
tinguishable. _ Fructifications acldous to, be met - Linn. 
ECK, Grows i in broad patches, ‘Sedutice, flat, one plant over 
another. Leafits hooked, very sharp. B fear triangular, the 
reflec 
numerous, bent ba ck, yellowish green ; spear. crisp. Diu. 
halk hills, rocks, about the roots of trees indry woods and 
stony soils, [ Bungay, Suffolk, Mr. Stoyg.| P. March, April. 
C. (3) Shoots winged with branches: capsules drooping. 
H. Shoots taper-pointed: leaves upright but expanding; du’bium, 
capsules oblong, crooked. Dic 
Dill. 36, 21. 
Leaves yellow green, smooth, narrow, spit-pointed, upri = 
on the upper, reflected on the lower shoots. Frait-stalks oft 
bent and twisted in a young tie afterwards becoming strai ight, 
Id. Lz 
Capsule oblong, crooked when o id short. Juvolucrum 
pyramidal, its scales bse pointed. Dit. 
Wet heaths and marshy places, Febr, ~ 
H. Branches somewhat cylindrical, distant, unequal: abie'tinum, 
leaves egg-spear-shaped, closely tiled. 
Dill. 35. 17-Vaill. 29. 19~H, ox. xv. row 4. 22. p. 626. 
Fruit- stalks from the middle of the rib of the shoot, 20] 
shorter above. Leajis ene ey sigh scored, endin in hairs, 
closely tiled. Weis. Branches straight. Leaves straight, which 
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ide shoots a rous, opposite, surrounded on eve 
side DY small att vellow “reas leaves, No fructification yet 
ILLe 
‘Momenaes places. On hills near Hinksey, Oxfordshire. 
Ditt,—In shady places, and on Chalk hills about Nort aren 
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