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Amblystegiella. 

 A. adnata. 



This form is common on stones and about the base of trees. The species 

 closely resembles Hypnum from which it differs in that it is usually 

 ecostate. The leaves are mostly entire, acute or acuminate; they are 

 erect spreading, not curved, oblong ovate, concave. Capsules suberect. 

 Plants fine and thread-like, reseml^ling Hypnum reptile. They are dark 

 green to yellow-green. Mature in summer. 

 Amblystegium. 



The genus Amblystegium consists mostly of plants of minute size. They 

 live in deep moist woods and are exceedingly common. Capsules are sub- 

 erect or cernuous. The seta is smooth. Costa single, very rarely ecostate. 

 A . fluviatile. 



This plant is of medium size and is to be found floating in brooks. It is 

 dark green with long branches, the branchlets are few and suberect. 

 Leaves are entire, remote, ovate with blunt apex, sometimes oblong lance- 

 olate, concave, costa not excurrent; somewhat spirally imbricated. Cap- 

 sule very long and suberect, constricted below the mouth. Tufts are 

 fiat, soft and prostrate, leafless at base. Mature in summer. 

 A. irriguum. 



This species is also aquatic. Plants very small, hard and gritty, very 

 black. Leaves long acuminate, rigid with acute apex, decurrent, ovate 

 Capsule cernuous subcylindric, seta long. Plants dark black green, stem 

 thick, prostrate, often pinnate, branches erect or procumbent. Mature in 

 summer. 

 A. riparium. 



Plants creeping or floating, forming large loose tufts of dirty yellow 

 green. Leaves with long slender acumen, subsecund, shortly decurrent. 

 Capsule oblong cylindric, inclined. Operculum large orange. Mature in 

 spring. 

 A. varium. 



A very varied form, with a varied habitat. It is found growing on 

 moist soil, on stones, trees. Leaves are long acuminate with long slender 

 acumen; strongly costate. Seta long. Mature in spring. 

 Anomodon. 



Plants larger than Leskea. Primary stems stoloniferous, leafless. 

 Secondary stems leafy and erect. Capsule erect, symmetric, oblong, 

 cylindric, brown. Leaves are opaque with a pellucid costa, distant, 

 small, ovate or lanceolate. Paraphyllia lacking. 

 A. aitenuatus. 



Plants forming wide loose tufts mixed with many filiform or flagelliform 

 branches or stolons. Leaves are apiculate, subsecund, decurrent, papil- 

 lose. Seta is long and twisted. On rocks or base of trees. Mature in 

 autumn. 

 A. rostraius. 



Leaves imbricate with ovate base which tapers to a lanceolate upper 

 part. Apex long-apiculate. Costa strong, vanishing below the apex. 

 Capsule ovoid, seta short. About the roots of trees and about moist 

 rocks. Mature in autumn. 



