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Fig. 10. Hypnibi chetsophtllum. 



Golden Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Golden green. 

 Stems. Creeping, pinnate ; plants small. 



Leaves (b.) . Cordate-ovate, spreading, acuminate, entire, points recurved. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous'j seta long ; capsule cylindrical, cernuous, sub-erect. 



Rare. May. 

 Locality. Fallow ground. 



Fig. 11. Hypnum poltmorphum. 



Dwarf Starry Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Emerald green. 



Stems. Procumbent, filiform, hardly pinnate, very minute. 

 Leaves (b) . Very small, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, spreading. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta long, capsule large in proportion, oblong, 



curved, cernuous, not horizontal. Suiamer. 

 Locality. WaUs &c., on limestone. ' 



Fig. 12. Htpnum Halleei. 



Mailer's Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dark green. 



Stems. Creeping, pinnate J plants small. 



Leaves (6) . Crowded, spreading, ovate-acuminate, serrate, base faintly two- 

 nerved. 



Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous (?) capsule oblong, curved, cernuous. Not found 

 in Britain. 



Locality. Alpine rocks. Rare. Ben Lawers, &c. Scotland. 



Fig. 13. Htpnum dimoephum. 

 Hair-lihe Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Yellow green. 

 Stems. Procumbent, pinnate, branches distant, extremely slender. 



