646 ~ GRYPTOGAMIA, MUSCI. Hypnum. (F. 2) 
Fishermen make use of it to scour their worms, 
Var. 2. More slender. Mid-rib of the leaves red. 
Dill. 40, 47-Vaill. 29. 10~Neck. meth. 1. 10-Buxb, iv. 
64. 1, the right hand of the upper figures; and 3. ‘ 
Longer and more slender than the preceding, branches and 
leaves more pointed, more shining when dry, more thinly set, 
and exposing more distinctly the red mid-rib, Ditt. 
_eurtipen’- H. Shoots upright, branched, leafy: leaves oblong-egg- 
dulum, shaped, acute, tiled: capsules ege-shaped; ‘lid ta- 
pering to a point. . 
Dicks. h s— Dill, 43. 69. 
From 2 to 4 inches or more in’ length, Wide spreading; 
much branched, rigid. Leaves ending in a sharp hair-like point, 
closely tiled, broader and more dense at the ends of the shoots, 
Forest, near Southgate, and in Yorkshire. On large stones on 
the Marlborough Downs, Wiltshire ; and on the rocks of Snow- 
don. Dixit. = — April. 
atro-vi’rens.H, Shoots creeping, branched: leaves o-spear-shaped, 
limber: capsules _inversely-egg-shaped, fringed, 
drooping. .Dicks. ii. 10, 
D ill, 43. 67. 
_ Slender, irregularly branched, Leaves very small, loosely 
disposed, dull green and pellucid when wet, e and blackish 
when dry. Involucrum pale, slender, fixed near to the origin of 
the branches. Fruit-stalts blackish, Capsules small, bla 
Lids deciduous. Dri. 
W at the roots of trees, Scotland, 
G. (1) Shoots crowded : capsules upright. 
seric’eum. H. Shoots branched, creeping : leaves oblong, hair-pointed, 
tiled, capsules cylindrical ; lid taper-pointed, bent. 
Hedw. stirp. iv. 17—Dill. 42. 59-Curt. 126—H. ox. XVe 5s 
row 4, 25-Vaill. 27.3. a. b.-Gars, 639, 
Grows so firmly to the trunks of trees that it can scarcely bs 
