136 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



In woods and on banks. Common. Bearing fruit in No- 

 vember. 



Dioicous; growing in loose, deep green tufts. Primary 

 stem creeping, secondary erect, arched above, proliferous, irre- 

 gularly tripinnate, clothed with numerous multiform, often 

 branched paraphylla; branchlets slender, not rooting at the 

 tip; stem-leaves ovate, acute; branch-leaves more obtuse, all 

 of them papillose, with a subcontinuous nerve; margin even 

 or slightly recurved ; cells uniform, except a very few at the 

 base, in which the primordial cell is very visible ; perichsetial 

 leaves consisting of long cells, fringed with threads ; fruit- 

 stalk red, 1 inch long; sporangium oblong, slightly arched; 

 lid rostrate, about half as long. 



Often used by the manufacturers of artificial flowers. 



2. T. delicatulum, Schimp. ; stem erect or decumbent, bi- 

 pinnato-ramulose ; branches attenuated, drooping, often root- 

 ing at the tip; stem-leaves cordate, acuminate, hispid, nerve 

 reaching almost to the tip; sporangium subcylindrical, cernu- 

 ous ; ltd conical, acute. Hook, fy Wils. t. Ivii. ; Eng. Bot. t. 

 1495,; (Moug. $ Nest. n. 1031.) 



On limestone rocks and on chalk hills, in several situations 

 from Scotland to Sussex. Bearing fruit in summer. 



Dioicous; forming dense tufts. Stems not proliferous, but 

 bearing pinnate branches ; leaves more widely ovate, acumi- 

 nate, strikingly hispid, yellow-green, subplicate; nerve reach- 

 ing nearly to the tip ; margin slightly reflected ; paraphylla 

 various in shape, often leafy; perichsetial leaves 'not fringed; 

 fruitstalk 1 inch high, paler, even ; sporangium smaller, ob- 

 long, curved, cernuous ; lid conical, half as long as the spo- 

 rangium, acuminate. 



Closely allied to the last, but differing in the hispid leaves, 

 the less divided branches, absence of fringe on the perichaetial 



