758 374. Hypnum. 14. MUSCI. Pi. cell. fol. 
25. Hypnum albicans... | Whitish feather-moss. 
Leaves upright, spreading, ovate, lanceolate, pointed, 
streaked, uncut; main rib reaching halfway; capsules ovate, 
drooping; peduncles smooth; lid conical. - 
Hypnum terrestre erectum humilius albicans, ramulis teretibus, Dillen 
in Raii Syn. 83, 19. 
-Hypoum albicans, Necker Musc. 180; Engl. Bot. 1300. 
- On sandy open places. 
h. Stem with the leaves not flat, lower part bare ; leaves on 
all. sides, uniform in their direction, serrated; main rib 
shorter than the leaf or 0. 
26. Hypnum alopecurum. Foxtail feather-grass. 
Stem upright; below simple, naked; above branched, 
branches in bundles; leaves concave, ovate, elliptical, point- 
ed, serrated, main rib nearly reaching the tip, edge turned 
over; capsule ovate, drooping; lid beaked. 
Hypnum palustre erectum, arbusculam referens, ramulis subrotundis, 
Raii Syn. 81, 3. i 
Tiypnum alopecurum, Lin. S. P. 1594; Engl. Bot. 1182. 
On shady banks, in woods. 
27. Hypnum dendroides. Treelike feather-grass. 
“Siem upright; below simple, naked; above branched, 
branches in bundles; leaves ovate, lanceolate, streaked, 
serrated at the tip, main rib nearly reaching the tip; capsule 
upright, ovate, cylindrical; id beaked. ; 
Hypnum erectum, arbusculam referens, ramulis subrotundis confertim 
nascentibus, Raii Syn. 81,9. 
’ Hypnum dendroides, Lin. §. P. 1593; Engl. Bot, 1565. 
Leskea dendroides, Hedw. S. Musc. 228. ; 
Neckera dendroides, Swartz M. Succ. 71. 
Climacium dendroides, Mohr. Germ. 
In woods and moist pastures. 
Columella in dry weather raises the lid spirally, and al- 
lows the escape of the seeds, moisture contracts the colu- 
mella in the same spiral manner, and again closes the cap- 
sule: inner peristome segments cleft at the base. 
i. Stem with the leaves not flat, leafy below ; leaves on all 
sides, uniform in their direction, serrated, main rib shorter 
than the leaf or 0; capsules upright. 
28. Hypnum curvatum. Bent feather-moss. 
Branches in bundles, bent; leaves ovate, elliptical, con- 
cave, serrated at the tip; main rib disappearing beyond the 
middle; capsule ovate, upright; lid beaked. 
