£42. 
alopecu ‘rum. 
gra’cile, 
attenua’tum. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCT. Hypnum. (5) 
from the base of the branches; uprights. Capsules slender, up- 
ight. Ld conical, short. Veil slender. Diu. Fruit-stalks 
longer than the shoots. Veil covering the whole capsule. Leaves 
a little serrated. 
Moist woods re] euty places about the roots of ge) and 
in moist pastures. P, Fe arch. 
H. Shoot upright: br saat es in bundles; terminating; 
: subdivided : capsules rather droo oping. 
Dill, 41. 49~Vaill, 23. 25 and 5-H. ox. xv. 5. row the last. 
wes of the stem open. Liv. In its tree-like mode of 
growl? it resembles the H. dendroides, but the shoots are longer, 
the trunk is taller, the branches expand more, and are more fre- 
quently branched again; the extremities are not straight, but 
hanging down, and the leaves expanding. When dry the Aig 
h 
Stems light red, rising from a trailing root. Leaves broad at 
the base, tapering to a ka alternate. Involucrum scales end« 
ing in hairs, compact. 
Moist and shady sicsin at the roots of trees, and by the sides 
of rivers, P. March, April. 
F. (1) Shoots nearly cylindrical : : capsules upright. 
H. Shoots creeping: branches cylindrical ; nearly upright: 
capsules egg-shaped 
Hedw. strp. iv. 6-Dill. 41. 55~Fi, dan. 649. bag 
_ Hangs suspended from the bak, af ketene in numerous cylin- 
drical pointed branches bendin ards, and somewhat re- 
Nieas the ck of ih bird. Fruitsnalh ‘from the base of the 
Chace, On the masses of stone called ‘Sry cies: in Wilt- 
shire, P, Fe b—April. 
H. Shoots branched: oe bowed in, sometimes ta- 
pering, sometimes thickening: leaves 
pointing one — capsules upright, tooth fringed, 
Dicks. i. 13 
if Hedww. stirp. i. 12-Dill. 42, 66. 
Fruit-stalks upright, lateral. Veil slender, twisting. Capsules 
cylindrical, Beak blunt. Fringe double, outer row of tecih 10- 
