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Leaves costate ; plants growing on cool moist 



rocks Homalia. 144 



6. Plants growing on trunks of trees Neckcra. 143 



Plants growing on decayed wood 



Entodon and Raphidostegium. I37> 127 



Plants growing on soil or decayed wood 



Plagiothecium. 136 



7. Plants regularly once or twice pinnate, looking 



like miniature ferns 



Thuidium, Hypnum, Hylocomium proliferum.iii, 115, IJ 3 

 Plants not regularly pinnate 8. 



8. Capsules erect, straight 9- 



Capsules cernuous, curved. . . . . Hypnum family. 114 



9. Growing on bark of trees 10. 



Growing on soil or decayed wood 13. 



Growing on stones or bark of trees 



. Amblystegium adnatum. 119 



10. Growing only near the base of trees 1 1 . 



Growing at various heights on tree trunks, sel- 

 dom near the base 12. 



11. Light green ; branches julaceous Thelia. no 



Dark green ; branches somewhat flattened or at 



least not julaceous Anomodon. 109 



12. Small ; seta many times as long as the per- 



ichaetial leaves Pylaisia. 136 



Larger ; seta not more than twice as long as the 



perichjetial leaves Leucodon. 141 



13. Plants treelike, growing on the ground in 



swamps Climacium. 139 



Plants growing in prostrate mats on soil or 

 decayed w r ood 14. 



14. Leaves without costa Entodon. 137 



Leaves costate 



Anomodon rostratus and Brachythecium acu- 



minatuui 108, 139 



