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Leaves (b) . Broadly ovate, shaped beneath like the keel of a ship [keeled) , in 



three rows ; nerve strong, escurrent. 

 Mowers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule globular, seta bent at a right angle. 



March. 

 Locality. Cliffs on the coast of Sussex. 



II. Barren flowers in the junction of the leaf and stem (^axillary). 



Fig. 10. Phascum FLOEEKEANtrM. 



Floerh's Earth Moss. Brown Earth Moss (a) . 



Colour. Brown. 



Stems. Hardly any. 



Leaves (&) . Crowded, ovate-acuminate ; nerve excurrent. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule on short pedicel. Autumn. 



Locality. Fields, on chalk or clay. 



Fig. 11. Phascum eectum. 

 Upright Earth Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Reddish brown. 

 Stems. Short. 



Leaves. Crowded, elliptic lanceolate ; nerve excurrent. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule on pedicel, having a trace of a Ud. 



Winter. 

 Locality. Banks and fields. Common. 



Fig. 12. Phascum teneeiim. 



Tender Earth Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Dull green. 

 Stems. Comparatively long. 

 Leaves (b) . Lanceolate ; nerve excurrent. 



Floivers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule immersed, on short pedicel. Winter. 

 Locality. Sussex. (Mr. Mitten.) 



