190 BIilTI8E MOSSES. 



Plate XXXI. 



LBSKEA. 



Fig. 1. Geneeic Chaeactee. 



Stem creeiDUig, irregularly branched. Capsule (a) erect^ lid short, conical. 

 Areolse (5) long, narrow, and wavy. 



A. Leaves without strice. 



Fig. 2. Leskea monilifokmis. 



Slender Leshea (a) . 

 Golou7\ Yellow green. 

 Stems. Very slender, branches few. 



Leaves (b) . Eound, concave, imbricated closely, nerveless. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous (?) . Capsule not quite erect, base tapering. Very 



rare. Summer. 

 Locality. Alpine rocks. 



Fig. 3. Leskea latebeicola. 



Bidden Leshea (a) . 

 Colour. Emerald green. 

 Stems. Very short, slender, branches few. 



Leaves (&) . Acute, lanceolate, margin recurved, base two-nerved, * 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Seta comparatively long, very slender; capsule 



minute, erect, base tapering. Winter. 

 Locality. Shady woods, on old roots of the Male Fern and decaying trunks of 



alders, often overlooked from its minuteness. 



