220 BRITISH M088E8. 



Plate XXXVII. 



HYPNB^ (continued). 



D. Leaves secund. 



1. SiemSj pinnate, erect, fructification near the middle, leaves falcate. 



Fig. 1. Hypnum fluitans. 



Floating Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Very long, slender, erect, or floating, branches short and very distant. 



Leaves (b) . Set loosely, falcato-secund, lanceolate, acuminate, apex serrated, 



nerved more than half-way. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta four or five inches long ; capsule curved, 



oblong. Spring. 

 Locality. Marshes and pools. 



Its peculiar ragged, straw-like habit is easily recognizable. 



Fig. 2. Hypnum stenophyllum. 



Twisted-leaved Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Long, branched, branches short, irregular. 



Leaves (b) . Lanceolate, very much curved and twisted, with long points ; nerve 



long. 

 Flmvers and Fruit. Dioicous (?) . Barren in Britain. 

 Locality. Marshes. Mr. Wilson's MS. 



Fig. 3. Hypnum eevolvens. 



- Rusty Claw-leaved Feather Moss [a) . 



Colour. Yellow. 



Stems. Not rigid, erect or procumbent, pinnate, branches few, curved. 



