188 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Fig. 6. Isothecidm alopectibum. 



Fox-tail Frond Moss (a) , 



Colour. Dark green. 



Stems. One to four inches in height^ much branched^ tree-like^ the tuft of 



branches pinnated; base often with stolons. 

 Leaves (b) . Ovate-lanceolatOj spreading, serrated, nerved, crowded ; nerve 



prominent j stem-leaves few and scale-like. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule ovate, erect or inclined, not commonly 



found, but numerous when it does occur; beak oblique; peristome as 



Hypnum. Winter and Spring. 

 Locality. Rocks and trees in sub-alpine districts. 



CLIM ACTUM. 



Branches spreading from all sides ; stems without innovations, but when it has 

 become prostrate it sends up lateral shoots, much in the way of the tree-like 

 Mnium undulatum. Peristome double ; outer of sixteen teeth, linear-lanceolate, 

 base confluent ; inner of sixteen linear processes, divided each into two segments 

 connected at the apes. 



Climacium dendeoides.* 



Tree 3£oss. 



Colour. Brownish green. 



Stems. Two to four inches high, branched, branches very long. 

 Leaves (b) . Ovate-lanceolate ; apex serrulate ; nerve ceasing below the apex. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous; seta very long; capsules elliptical, very numerous. 

 Autumn. j 



Locality. Bogs and marshes. Fruit not common. 



* Humboldt, in his " Aspects of Nature," speaks of this moss as " a true tree." 



