226 BRITISH M088E8. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule erect, scarcely curved, oblong, lid oblique. 



Wiater. 

 Locality. Walls, trunks of trees, &c., &c. 



Pig. 4. Hypnum peatense. 



Meadoic Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Grass green. 



Stems. Erect, branched; branches flat. 



Leaves. Secund, spreading flat on each side of the stem, [complanate) ovate- 

 lanceolate, nerveless. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule narrow, ovate, cernuous, base tapering; 

 not found in Britain. 



Locality. Moist banks, &c. 



Fig. 5. Hypnum ocheaceum. 



Yellow Mountain-rill Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Brownish. 



Stems. Erect, branched, branches few, flaccid. 



Leaves (b) . Ovate-lanceolate, concave, nerve forked. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Seta red, capsule much tapering at the. base. 



Locality. In wet places among mountains. 



5. Leaves roundish, concave, entire. 



Fig. 6. Hypnum scoepioides. 



Scorpion Feather Moss [a) . 

 Colowr. Brownish. 



Stems. Long, branched irregularly; branches simple. 

 Leaves. Crowded, falcate, secmid, apiculate, large, making stem and branches 



appear very broad and flat, nerveless or faintly two-nerved. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous. Seta very long, capsule large, curved, cernuous, 



lid conical, poiuted. 

 Locality. Bogs. Fruit rare. 



