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8. HifPXUM ELEGANS, Spruce. {Elegant Feather llo.ss.) 

 Stem decumbent, narrowly flattened ; branches distant, very- 

 flaccid, frequently divided into very slender, flagelliform, 

 confervoid branchlets; cauline leaves loosely distichous, 

 narrowly ovate, shortly flexuose, acuminate, deeply compli- 

 cato-concave ; margin erect, subdenticulate at the point, 

 with two short nerves; capsule (on short red footstalks) 

 pendulous, oblong, smooth; lid short, conico-acuminate. — 

 Ann. et Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1849. Hypnum Bowerianum^ 

 S^r. {MS.) 



Sandstone rocks. Bridge Park, near Tunbridge Wells; 

 near Castle Howard, Eskdale ; and near Bantry, Ireland. 



9. Hypnum incuevatum, Schrad. {Incurved Feather 

 Moss.) Tufts very broad, flattened ; stem creeping, the 

 branches short, erect, and flexuose; cauline leaves secund, 

 imbricated, narrowly ovato-acuminate, entire, concave, with 

 two very short, slender nerves; perichgetial leaves broadly 

 sheathing, acuminate, nerveless ; theca on a long, smooth 

 footstalk, inclined, cylindrico-oblong ; lid straight, conical, 

 acute. — Mull. S?/n. pt. 2. p. 416. Hypnum Swartzii, Brid. 

 Sp. Muse. ii. 



Moist rocks and hardy woods, in plains and alpine dis- 

 tricts. 



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