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Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsule long, curvedjand arc uate, especially when 



diy^ contracted below the mouth. Spring. 

 Locality. Stones in water. 



Fig. 4. Hypnum elodbs. 



Fine-leaved Marsh Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Brown green. 



Steins. Slender, pinnate ; branches slender, weak and straggling. 



Leaves (6) . Minute, distant, lanceolate, acuminate, nerved almost the whole 



length. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta long; capsule large, ovate, cernuous. Spring. 

 Locality. Marshes and bogs. 



Fig. 5. Htpnum seepens. 



Creeping Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Creeping, pinnate, filiform ; plant very small. 



Leaves (b) . Ovate-lanceolate, acumiaate, slightly serrate, nerved almost the 



whole length ; but variable, as in many species. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta variable; capsule large, cylindrical, long, 



in dry places short and ovate. Spring. 

 Locality. Very common in all situations. 



Fig. 6. Hypnum eadicale. 



Long-stalked Creeping Feather Moss (a). 



Colour. Emerald green. 



Stems. Creeping, branches, irregular, rigid, erect. 



Leaves (b) . Minute, spreading, cordate-ovate, acuminate; nerve ceasing near the 



apex. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta long, capsule large, long, cernuous, arched. 



Spriag. 

 Jjocality. Moist ground, among grass. 



