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nated, striated; capsule oblong. — Entj. Fl. p. 70. Neckera 

 sciuroides, Mull. 8yn.pt. 2. p. 107. 



Trunks of trees in the south of England, rare in Scotland. 

 Fr. Summer. Messrs. Borrer and Lyell have found it in 

 Sussex and Hants, in a fruiting state, but it rarely occurs 

 in this condition. The stems however are often covered 

 vvith numerous gem.moi, by which the plant seems to be 

 freely propagated. Its habit is quite that of a Hi/pnum, in 

 which genus it was placed by Linnseus. It is common on 

 the Continent. 



Division II. BIPLOPEBISTOMI. 



NECKEIIA, Hedw. (Neckeea.) 



A genus approaching Leslcca so much in the character of 

 its peristome, and some Hypnums in that of its leaves and 

 stems, that Drs. Hooker and Taylor, in the ' Muscologia Bri- 

 tannica,^ say they would have been induced also to add this 

 genus to Hypnmv, "if it were not a genus so universally 

 adopted, that we do not know of any author who has not 

 kept it distinct." Those who have examined Miiller^s 

 recently published Synopsis, will find that it ranks as an 

 important genus in the most recent arrangements, no less 



