54 BRITISH MOSSES. 



BRYACE^. 



True Mosses. 

 1. ACROCARPI (SUMMIT-FRUITED). 



PLATE IV. 



PHASCEiE. 

 Fig. 1, 2, 3. Characteristics op Order. 



Plants, the most minute of British mosses, with roots, capsule (fig. 1, a; 2, a) 

 round, without fruitstalk {sessile) , or on a very short seta, splitting at the side ; 

 lid (true) none; seeds [spores, fig. 1, h; 2, h) very large; cells {areolae, fig. 3) 

 very large. 



Fig. 1. Aechidikm. 



Generic Character. 



Capsule (a) without any separate lid, splitting at the side, sessile, spores (&) 

 very large, few, angular. 



Fig. 1, c. Aechidium phascoides. 



Clay Moss. 



Colour. Light Green. 



Stems. Quarter of an inch in length, with long barren shoots {innovations) from 



below the capsule. 

 Leaves {d) . Lanceolate, wide apart ; nerve thick, running beyond the leaf, 



[excurrent) . 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule globular, rather pointed at the top. 



Calyptra very small. 

 Locality, On damp ground. 



