234 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Leaves (b) . Spreading on all sides, crowded, erecto-patent, lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, almost hair-pointed, nerve ceasing below the apex. 



Mowers and Fruit. Synoicous ; capsule nearly erect, not symme.trical,' apophysis 

 short, lid long. Winter. 



Locality. Moist rocks and on trees in sub-alpiue districts. 



CEYPTOTHECBJG. 



Fig. 12. Chaeacteeistics of Oedee. 



Stems from a creeping rhizoma, pinnate, capsule immersed, oval oblong, lid 

 beaked, calyptra (c) conico-mitriform. Peristome double, outer teeth forming a 

 cone when moist. 



Cetph^a heteeomalla. 



Lateral Oryphcea [a] . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Procumbent, branched. 



Leaves (6) . Spreading, imbricated, ovate, concave, nerved more than half-way, 



margin recurved. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsules many, on the upper side of the 



branches, oblong, immersed, calyptra brown, rough, covering the capsule. 



Spring. 

 Locality. Trunks of trees. Common. A variety with longer stems found in 



water. 



FONTINALE^. 



Fig. 13. Chaeacteeistics op Oedee. 



Mosses growing in water, stems very long and branched, slender, floating, only 

 rooted at the base, bare of leaves below. Leaves three-ranked, crowded, areolfe 

 narrow. Capsule immersed, ovate or oval, pedicel rooted in the receptacle 

 (vaginula) . Calyptra small. Annulus none. ' Peristome [Fig. 13) large and very 

 curious ; bright red, the outer of sixteen teeth, united in pairs at the apex, with 

 prominent bars internally, very long, subulate, hygroscopic, incurved when dry. 



