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Leaves (b) . Ovate-acuminate ; spreading^ slightly serrate above, margin recurved, 



nerve various ; areola minute. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta curved; capsule elliptical; peristome double, 



yellow ; the outer of sixteen teeth, united at the base, the inner of sixteen 



perforate cilia. Calyptra brown. Spring. 

 Locality. Rocks and trees in mountainous districts. The singular trees known 



as "Wistman's Wood," on Dartmoor, are densely clothed with this moss. 



LBPTODON. 



Leptodon Smithii. 

 Curly Moss. 



Colov/r. Tellow green. 



Stems. Pinnate twice (bi-pinnate) ; extremely hygroscopic ; when dry and when 



wet hardly recognizable as the same ; (5) represents the wet, (c) the diy 



moss ; creeping. 

 Leaves {d) . Round, entire, margin recurved in the lower part ; nerve ceasing 



above the middle. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta short ; capsule (a) elliptical, beak rather 



curved ; peristome of sixteen lanceolate teeth, with a slight trace of an 



inner peristome. Spring. 

 Locality. Trunks of trees in the south of England. 



ANOMODOlSr. 



Fig. 9. Anomodon viticuiostts. 



Long Tcdl Moss (a) . 

 Colour. YeUow green. 



Stems. Long, branches few, erect, brittle, tufted. 

 Leaves (6) . Lingulate ; nerve transparent, ceasing below the apex. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous; seta long, capsule erect, elliptical. Rare. 

 Locality. Rocks and trees in limestone districts. 



