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Leaves costate; plants growing on cool moist 



rocks Homalia. 144 



6. Plants growing on trunks of trees Neckera. 143 



Plants growing on decayed wood 



Entodon and Raphidostegium. 137, 127 



Plants growing on soil or decayed wood 



Plagiothecium. 136 



7. Plants regularly once or twice pinnate, looking 



like miniature ferns 



Thuidium, Hypnuiii. Hylocomium proliferum.iii, 115, 113 

 Plants not regularly pinnate 8. 



8. Capsules erect, straight g. 



Capsules cernuous, curved Hypnum family. 114 



9. Growing on bark of trees 10. 



Growing on soil or decayed wood 13. 



Growing on stones or bark of trees 



Amblystegium adnatum. 119 



10. Growing only near the base of trees 11. 



Growing at various heights on tree trunks, sel- 

 dom near the base 12. 



11. Light green; branches julaceous Thelia. no 



Dark green ; branches somewhat flattened or at 



least not julaceous Anomodon. log 



12. Small ; seta many times as long as the per- 



ichaetial leaves Pylaisia. 136 



Larger ; seta not more than twice as long as the 



perichaetial leaves Leucodon. 141 



13. Plants treelike, growing on the ground in 



swamps. . Climacium. 139 



, Plants growing in prostrate mats on soil or 



decayed wood 14. 



14- Leaves without costa Entodon. lyj 



Leaves costate 



Anomodon rostratus and Brachythecium acu- 

 minatum. 108, 139 



