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branched, and the branches rather short but stout. 

 The leaves are shining yellowish-green, and show the 

 characteristic curving in two opposite directions. 

 Sometimes the matted plants are quite thickly covered 

 with the reddish-brown fruit. The seta is about Y^ inch 

 long, and the capsule is short-cylindrical. 



Range, Newfoundland to Manitoba, south to North Car- 

 olina and Missouri; Mexico. 



Stereodon arcuatus Lindb. (5. Lindhergii (Mitt.) 

 Warnst., HypnumPatientiae Lindh.) is found in moist 

 woods, swamps, and meadows, 

 often growing in the grass, in 

 light- or yellowish-green tufts. 

 The plants are more erect than 

 other mosses of this group, the 

 stems are less branched, and 

 more ascending, and the leaves 

 are larger and turned to one side, 

 instead of in two opposite di- 

 stereodon arcuatus rcctions. A rare variety more 



Branch enlarged. or Icss pinnate grows ou rocks. 



Range, Arctic America, Canada, and the northern 

 United States, south in the East to Florida; Europe; 



Asia. 



See Drepanocladus uncinatus (p. 214) for comparison 

 with that species. 



