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short; leaves flexuose. — Eug. Fl. p. 66; Milll. Byn. pt. 1. 

 p. 499. 



Oil rocks and dry banks. Fr. April. An elegant and 

 well-known ]\Ioss, M'ell designated, from its neatly globu- 

 lar capsule, the Apple Moss. The foliage is pale green, 

 sometimes with a shade of verdigris. 



A var. major of Hooker, and crispa of other authors, is 

 frequently found, in which the leaves are longer and less 

 closely set together, and in which the branches frequently 

 overtop the capsules. It grows in mountainous districts. 



2. Baethamia ithyphylla, Brid. {StraigJd -leaved 

 Appjle Moss.) Stems short; leaves rigid, erecto- patent, su- 

 bulato-setaceous, almost entire, the nerve half-way up, pass- 

 ing into the substance of the leaf, straight when dry ; seta 

 much elongated. — Eug. FL p. 66 ; Miill. Sfii. pt. \. p. 493. 



Dry banks in subalpine districts. Fr. Spring. Much 

 resembhng the preceding, from which it is principally dis- 

 tinguished by its straight radiate leaves — hence the name — 

 and their deeper green. This rigidity of the foliage is 

 caused by the nerve in the upper half of the leaf dilating 

 and unitinci: with the substance of the leaf. It is also closelv 

 allied to B. patens, V)n^., a native of the Straits of Magellan 

 and the Falkland Islands. 



