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Leaves, (b) . Awl-shaped {subulate), serrated; nerve running beyond the point 



(excurrent) . 

 Mowers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule brown, sessile. Winter. 

 Locality. Clay or chalk; rare. Henfield Common, Sussex. (Mr. Mitten, in 



" Bryologia Britannica.") 



Fig. 7. Phascum eecuevifolium. 



Strap-leaved Earth Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dull green. 



Stems. Hardly any. 



Leaves (6) . Strap-shaped, toothed ; nerve strong, excurrent. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule larger than in the last species ; brown. 



Winter. 

 Locality. Heaths in various parts of England. ' 



2. Plants without thallus; or sea- weed like [confervoid) shoots. 



Fig. 8. Phascum muticum. 



Common Earth Moss [a) . 

 Colour. Sage green. 



Stems. Hardly any. 



Leaves (5) . Broad, ovate, acuminate, toothed at the apex ; nerve strong and 

 broad, growing over each other, and pressed together above the capsule, so 

 that the plant is like a minute bulb, and of very stout texture. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule immersed, erect, on a short seta. 

 Autumn and Spring. 



Locality. Moist earth. Common. 



Fig. 9. Phascum teiqueteum. 



Triangular Earth Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dull green, changing to brown. 

 Stems. Almost none. 



