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226 DICRANUM FLAGELLARE, HEDW., IN BRITAIN. 
that locality. In the same wood, but generally on taller and 
decayed stumps, Dicranum montanum also occurs, and is ily dis- 
tinguished in the dry state from D. flagellare by being as much crisped 
as Weissia cirrhata. os 
The following description of D. flagellare is taken from English 
specimens :— Stems 4 to 1 inch high, slightly branched in a forked 
manner, and matted together by reddish fibres into extensive tufts 
Leaves yellowish or full green, spreading and slightly arched, forming 
f D. scopart 
quadrate above, and only half th 
lower part of the leaf. The alar cells are large and qu 
brown if the leaf has been taken from a comal tuft, 
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either side throughout its length one or two rows of very mare 
c 
Ss. 
The fruit has not yet been found in Britain, therefore the 10! 
lowing descriptions and figures of it are taken from Hed a 
Bruch and Schimper’s works. 
ers—Arranged in terminal heads among the: ote 
leaves ; the Perichetial leaves ovate-lanceolate, contaming 
ood mixed with paraphyses, which have the cell at at 
two outer perigonial leaves short, obtuse, and nerveless, the t 
a Mead and apiculate, furnis with a slender nerve, 
eaf resembling the two outer ones Archegonia without 
Peristome o: 
The above 
Schimper somewhat diff 
furrowed when 
