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Aetoca fulbella. 



Broivn Forh Moss. 

 Colour. Brownish green. 



Stems. Half-inch to two inches in lengthy branched, tufted. 



Leaves (6). Crowded, falcate, not crisped, lanceolate-subulate; nerve strong. 



Capsule. Ovate, eight-furrowed, lid oblique, peristome generally cleft, red. 



Fruitstalk of various length. Stimnier. 



Locality. Crevices of mountain rocks. 



CTNODONTIUM. 

 PEAR-FKUITED FORK MOSS. 

 Fig. 14. Generic Chaeactee. 



Capsule generally pyriform, and oblique. Calyptra large, lid beaked. Peri- 

 stome single, of sixteen teeth, bright red, soon falling [deciduous) , cloven to the 

 base and the divisions joined by bars, or entire. Leaves lanceolate, very slightly 

 toothed, twisted and curved. Monoicous. 



Fig. 14. Ctnodontium: Beuntoni. 



Pear-fruited Forh Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow and brownish green. 



Stems. Half-inch or more long, branches fastigiate. 



Leaves (b) . Linear-lanceolate, keeled, twisted and curled. 



Capsule. Pear-shaped, oblique ; lid beaked, oblique. Spring. 



Locality. Mountain rocks. 



Diceanella, 



This genus has only of late been discovered by Mr. Wilson, who places it 

 between Cynodontium and Bicranwm. Only one species is found in Britaiu, 

 Dicranella sinuosa. Wave-leaved lesser Fork Moss. 



Colour. Bright Green. 



Stems. Half-inch long, densely tufted. 



Leaves. Lanceolate, apex slightly toothed ; nerve broad, reaching to the apex. 



Capsule. With a swelling at the base (strumose) . Peristome as in Dicranum. 



Locality. Near Bangor. (Mr. Wilson.) 



