184 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Leaves {h) . Narrow, lanceolate ; nerve ceasing below the apex, very transparent 



and delicate. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule not found in Britain. 

 Locality. Very rare. Near Inverary. Mr. Wilson's MS. 



LEUCODONTB^. 



Fig. 4. Chaeacteeistics of Oedee. 

 Plants creeping, branches [surculi) erect, incurved ; leaves very closely 

 imbricated, so that the branches appear thick, and tail-like ; hence the name 

 " squirrel-tail ; •" areola small ; capsule erect, oval, lid conical or beaked ; peris- 

 tome of sixteen not hygroscopic, perforated teeth. 



Fig. 5. Leucodon sciueoides. 



Squirrel Tail Moss (a) . 

 Coloivr. Yellow green. 



Stems. Creeping, branches erect. 



Leaves (6) . Ovate acuminate/ thickly imbricated, folded lengthwise (plieate) . 



Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule extremely rare. Autumn. 



Locality. Trunks of trees, walls, and rocks. 



Fig. 6. Leucodon Lagueus. Variety Borealis. 



Hare- tail Moss {a) . 

 Colour. Brown. 



Stems. Branched, themselves slender, but from the imbrication of the leaves 



club-like and swollen. 

 Leaves (h) . Oval, concave ; suddenly acuminate, very faintly two nerved at the 



base. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; barren in Britain. 

 Locality. A wet rock in North Dist, opposite St. Kilda. Mr. Wilson. 



ANTITRICHIA. 



Fig. 7. Antiteichia cuetipendula. 



Pendulous Wing Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Six inches long, or shorter, very straggling ; procumbent ; branched 



from each side [pinnate) ; branches rather curved. 



