270 HISTORY OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



2. Hypnum cespitanSj C. Miill. {Tarfy Feather Moss.) 

 Forming broad deep-green tufts ; stem creeping, branches 

 short, rounded, divided in a somewhat pinnate manner; 

 the cauline leaves crowded, adpressed, subrotund, oval, 

 and lanceolate, shortly acuminate, concave without striae, 

 slightly revolute at the margin, sub denticulate at the apex, 

 the nerve disappearing beyond the middle ; the perichsetial 

 leaves few, appressed, acuminate, and entire; theca on a 

 short, red, papillose stalk, short, narrow, erect, and oblongo- 

 cylindrical ; lid short, conical, obtusely apiculate ; peristome 

 with a broad annulus, Hypnum csespitosum, Wils. Eng. 

 Bot. Suppl. t. 2878. Scleropodium csespitosum, Br. ^' Sc/i. 



fasc. Iv. Ivi. p. 2. 



On walls, near Warrington, Mr. Wilson; and near 

 Hurstpierpoint, Mr. Mitten. Mr. Spruce has also found 

 it at the roots of trees, in moist meadows, in the western 

 Pyrenees. Allied in some points to H. murale. 



3. Hypnum circinatum, Brid. {Clrcinate Feather 3Ioss.) 

 Broadly decumbent, rigid, dull green ; stem creeping, with 

 slightly rising branches, divided in a fastigiate manner into 

 very short curved branchlets; the cauline leaves densely 

 crowded, concave at tlie base, denticulated below and ser- 

 rulate at the apex, margin very revolute at the base, with a 



