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Used by anglers to scour worms. The teeth of the peri- 

 stome are narrower than in the last, broadly lamellate, and 

 other differences will be found on comparison. 



C. Stem simply, douhly,or triply pinnate, erect, tomentose or rough 



with paraphilia ; fruit from the upper part of the stem. 



* Leaves papillose. 



53. H. Blandovii, Web. §• Mohr ; stem bi-tripartite, clothed 

 with laciniate down-like paraphylla, branchlets distichous, 

 crowded; stem-leaves cordate, acuminate, plicate; branch- 

 leaves ovate, all more or less papillose behind, sharply toothed ; 

 margin recurved, nerve reaching almost to the tip ; sporan- 

 gium subcylindrical, curved, cernuous; lid conical. — Hook. §■ 

 Wils. t. xxv.; Eng. Bot. t. 2760.; (Plate 8, f. 5); Thuidium 

 Blandovii, Sc/iimp. 



In bogs. Eare. Bearing fruit in early summer. 



Monoicous ; forming tall, dense, pale-green tufts. Stems 

 erect, divided, divisions pinnate ; branches crowded, spreading, 

 the lower drooping, flagelliform and rooting at the tips, 

 clothed with jagged, much-branched, down-like paraphylla; 

 leaves subcordate on the stem, narrow on the branches, acute 

 or acuminate, imbricated, spreading, glossy, papillose beneath, 

 sharply keeled, more or less sulcate ; margin recurved, often 

 ciliated below ; fruitstalk 2 inches long, reddish, even ; spo- 

 rangium oblong, subcylindrical, curved, cernuous ; lid conical, 

 pointed. 



The rhomboid reticulations separate this from the species 

 referred to the genus Thuidium, with which it agrees in habit 

 and in the papillose leaves. 



** Leaves even. 

 8. Htlocomium, Sehreb* 



54. H. splendens, Sibth., Hedw. ; stem suberect, inter- 



* Pinnate, bipinnate, etc. ; leaves shining, aearious ; upper leaf-cells very 



