228 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Fig. 10. Hypnum pulchellum. 



Neat Mountain Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Grass green. 



Stems. Shorty branches erect^ rather flat. 



Leaves (b) . Assurgent, secundj lanceolate^ tapering to a pointj nerveless, not 



serrated. 

 Mowers and Fruit. Mouoicous ; capsule oblong, cemuous, lid apiculate. Summer. 

 Locality. Shady rocks. 



Pig. 11. Htpnum Muhlenbeckii. 



Mahlenheck's Feather Moss [a] . 



Colou/r. Grass green, glossy. 



Stems. Erect, tufted, branches fasciculate. 



Leaves (b) . Deltoid, acurttinate, serrated, nerveless or two-nerved ; spreading, 



secund. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsule oblong, base tapering, when dry 



striated. 

 Locality. Alpine rocks. 



Hypnum Silesiacum, Silesian Feather Moss, stems procumbent, branches 

 few, leaves assurgent, with points turned down ; has been very rarely found in 

 Britain. 



E. Leaves complanate., stems procumbent. 



Fig. 12. Hypnum undtjlatum. 

 Waved Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Whitish or pale green. 

 Stems. Procumbent, branches few. 



Leaves (b) . Ovate, much waved, entire, base faintly two-nerved. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous (?) ; seta very long and slender ; capsule cm-ved and 

 furrowed when dry, narrow, lid half as long, beak short. Winter. 



