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Fig. 4. Racomiteium peotensum. 



Sage-coloured Woolly Moss (a) . 



Colour. Sage green. 



Steins. Long, slender, not rigid ; leafy to the base. 



Leaves (b) . Spreading, lanceolate-subulate, obtuse. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule nearly cylindrical, teeth of peristome 



short. Spring. 

 Locality. Moist rocks. 



Fig. 5. Racomiteium sudeticum. 



Slender Woolly Moss (a) . 



Colour. Brownish green, grey with hairs. 



Stems. Long, slender, branched dichotomously ; base decumbent. 



Leaves (b) . Base erect, spreading, lanceolate with white transparent [diaphanous) 



points. 

 H.owers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule small, pale in colour, elliptical ; seta short. 



Spring. 

 Locality. Alpine rocks. 



II. Stems irregularly branched; branches lateral., not fastigiate. 

 {Racomitrium of some botanists.) 



Fig. 6. Racomiteium uasciculaee. 



Bimdled Woolly Moss (o) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Long, branches in bunches, short. 



Leaves (h) . Spreading, recurved, lanceolate ; margin recm-ved. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule elliptical ; lid long and subulate ; teeth of 



peristome very long ; annulus large. Spring. 

 I/ocality. Common on rocks. 



