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Fig. 11. DicEANUTvi majus. 



Great Fork Moss (a) . 



Colour. Grass green. 



Stems. Four to seven inches long. 



Leaves. Falcato-secundj very longj lanceolate-subulatej toothed from half way to 



the apeXj waved across. 

 Capsule. Cernuous ; when young brown, when old blackish, striated, seta very 



long. Summer. 

 Locality. Shady places. 



The handsomest and largest of the species. 



LEUCOBRYIBl. 



WHITE FORK MOSS (Fig. 12). 



Geneeic Chaeactee. 



Capsule and peristome much as in Dicranum. Stems branched. Leaves (a) the 

 base with a thin border, the centre and upper part of two layers of cellules, quad- 

 rangular, like lattice-work (b) . 



LeUCOBEYUM GLATJCmi, 



WMte Fork Moss (a) . 



Colour. White, deepening into sea-green, looking washed and faded. 



Stems. Forked, in dense round cushions. 



Leaves. Thick, very much crowded, lanceolate, obtuse. 



Capsule. Eed brown ; sometimes two or three together ; very rare. 



Locality. Common on heaths and in woods. 



