180 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Leaves. Very small^ denticulate, few. 



Flowers and Fruit. Capsule erect, elliptic ; lid long. Winter. 



Locality. Shady banks. 



Pig. 4. Fissidens viEiDULtrs. 



Little Gh-een Flat Moss {a) . 



Colour. Deep green. 



Stems. Very short, ia patches. 



Leaves {b) . Few ; lanceolate, bordered ; nerve to the apex. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsule minute, oval, inclined ; lid acuminate. 



Autumn. 

 Locality. Shady banks. 



Variety. — F. Incurvus, with curved capsule, spreading leaves, and fruit ripen- 

 ing ia spring, " may be," Mr. Wilson says, " a distinct species." 



Fig. 5. Fissidens betoides. 



Mwngo Park's Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dark green. 

 Sterns. Half-inch long. 



Leaves (h) . Spreading, apiculate, bordered. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsule erect, elliptical ; lid scarlet. Spring. 

 Locality. Shady places. 



Variety. — F. aquatilis {Fig. 6 a). Stems one inch long; leaves (b) many, 

 narrower and more distant ; capsule smaller ; seta shorter. Wet places. 



Fig. 6. Fissidens Osmundoides. 



Alpine Flat Moss (a) , 

 Colour. Dark green. 

 Stems. One inch long, tufted, radiculose. 



