MOSS HABITATS. 



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fringe of this species forms a beautiful object for the micro- 

 scope. 



Funaria hygrometrica will be found very abundantly in 

 like places, more especially where the soil has been burnt, 

 forming large yellowish-green patches, and when abundant 

 has a very striking appearance (fig. 25). The leaves are 

 large, very concave ; the leaf-cells large, hexagonal ; capsule 

 curved, somewhat pear-shaped, purple, and furrowed when 

 ripe, surmounted by a beautifully marked plane-convex lid ; 

 the peristome or fringe double, the outer fringe being formed 



FIG. 25. Funaria. hygrometrica. i, young leafy plant; a, inflated calyptra. 

 2, nearly mature plant, natural size ; , leaves ; b, seta, or fruit-stalk ; c, capsule ; 

 d, calyptra. 3, capsule enlarged. 4, leaf enlarged. 5, tip of leaf x 140 diameters to 

 show leaf cells. 



of sixteen beautifully marked reddish teeth, the inner of 

 sixteen yellowish teeth ; annulus large. 



Campy lopus pyriformis, although abundant on our Sutton 

 Park heath-lands, is by no means common on the heathy 

 waysides ; it will be found forming dense yellowish-green 

 patches, the very fragile leaves being scattered abundantly 

 over the patches ; the leaves are lance-shaped, the nerve is 

 broad, forming the greater part of the leaf, and composed of 



