208 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Fig. 7. Hypnum eipaeium. 



Short-beahed Water Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Grass green. 

 Stems. Procumbent, pinnate. 

 Leaves (h) . Large, spreading on each side, ovate-lanceolate, not serrated, nerved 



more than half-way. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta long, capsule large, cei'nuous, oblong. 

 Locality. Stones and trunks of trees, in places which are sometimes overflowed. 



(a) . Leaves acute, nerve short or none. 

 Pig. 8. Htpnum poltgamtjm. 



Cluster-flowered Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Procumbent, jDinnate, branches short, spreading. 



Leaves [b) . Ovate-lanceolate, spreading, not serrated {entire) , nerved above 



half-way. 

 Flotvers and Frmt. Polygamous; flowers clustered; seta long; capsule oblong, 



sub-cemuous. Summer. 

 Locality. Wet places and swamps. 



Fig. 9. Hypnum stellatum. 



Yellow Starry Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Erect, tufted, branched irregularly. 



Leaves (&) . Large, squarrose, recurved, horn-shaped {cuspidate) at the ends of the 



branches, deltoid-ovate, points very long, nerve none. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta very long, capsule arcuate, oblong, cernuous. 



Summer. 

 Locality. Bogs and marshes. 



