. 
Its upright tree-like mode of growth is unusual among the 
genus, and this species seems to hold the same rank in it as 
the splendid Hi ypnum Menzies, H. dendroideum, &e. among 
the Mosses, do with the rest of that genus. 
Fig. 1. Plant, natural size, Fig. 2. Leaf. Fig. 3. Scale of the spike of fruc- 
tification. Fig. 4. Scale with its bivalved capsule. Fig. 5. Capsule se- 
nified, 
*parated from the scale. Fig. 6. Seeds.—All but Fig. 1. more or less mag- 
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