206 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Plate XXXIV. 



HYPNE^ (continued). 



3. Lid conical. 

 Fig. 1. Hypnum ateovieens. 



Brown Mountain Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Brown green. 

 Stems. Prostrate^ branches few, irregular, and very variable; when barren, long 



and slender, when fertile, short. 

 Leaves [b) . Ovate-lanceolate, sub-serrate, acuminate, imbricated, nerve almost 



to the apex ; margin recurved below. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule small, cylindrical, slightly cemuous. Rare. 



Spring. 

 Locality. Alpine rocks. 



Fig. 2. Hypnum fluviatile. 



Brooh-side Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Brownish. 



Stems. Procumbent, branches prostrate ; few. 



Leaves (h) . Ovate, imbricated, not serrated, incurved when dry ; nerve thick. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta thick, capsule long, large, curved. Summer. 

 Locality. Rocks and stones in rivulets. 



Fig. 3. Hypnum ieeigutjm. 



Rigid BrooTi-side Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dark green. 

 Steins. Stiff, pianate. 



Leaves (b) . Spreading, secund, acuminatCj serrulate ; nerve strong, deltoid- 

 ovate; not crowded. 



