192 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Leaves (5) . Imbricated, secund, ovate-acuminate, nerve strong, margin reflexed 

 below. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta long ; capsule erect, cylindrical ; outer peris- 

 tome of sixteen nearly white teeth, hygroscopic, when wet spreading, when 

 dry bent in the form of a " staple." Autumn. 



Locality. Eoots of trees, near I'ivers. 



B. Leaves striated. 



Leskea sekicea. 



Silky Leskea. Golden Moss. 



Colour. Golden green, very shiny and silky looking. 



Stems. Procumbent ; branches erect, numerous, cm-ved slightly. 



Leaves (b) . Imbricated ; numerous, plicate, lanceolate-acuminate ; nerve ceasing 



below the apex. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsules cylindrical, erect, brown, numerous. 



. All winter. 

 Locality. Clothing trunks of trees, walls, and rocks, with thick shaggy fleeces. 



A most lovely moss, the commonest of the genus. 



Fig. 9. Leskea rupescens. 



Red Leskea (a) . 



Colov/r. Red and green. 



Stems. Erect, branched, in tufts. 



Leaves (&) . Long, erect, plicate, nerveless, lanceolate, much acuminate. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta very long ; capsule cylindrical and erect, or 



curved and rather inclined. Rare. Autumn. 

 Locality. Moist rocks. 



