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hexagonal or quadrate above, more oblong below ; nerve very- 

 broad; fruitstalk 1| inch or more long; teeth of outer peri- 

 stome short, blunt, bright-brown ; inner twice as long, torulose, 

 pale-yellow ; spores very large. 



2. M. longiseta, Hedw.; monoicous; stem elongated, to- 

 mentose; leaves distant, spreading, lanceolate or subulato- 

 lanceolate, acute, crisped when dry; margin even, entire; 

 fruitstalk very long ; sporangium cernuous, pyriform, incurved ; 

 lid conical, obtuse. — Hedw. St. Crypt, vol. i. t. 21, 22. ; {Moug. 

 §• Nest. n. 327.) 



In peat-bogs. Bearing fruit in summer. 



Said to have been found in Ireland by Dr. Scott, but his 

 specimens, with one exception, belong to Amblyodon dealbatus, 

 as reported by Mr. Wilson, and this individual may have been 

 of foreign extraction. 



It is a tall Moss with extremely long fruitstalks. 



50. PALUDELLA, Ehrh. 



Sporangium cernuous or suberect, slightly curved, and 

 unsymmetrical ; ring large, unrolling spirally ; peristome 

 double ; outer of sixteen lanceolate teeth, marked with a me- 

 dial line ; inner a membrane divided halfway down into six- 

 teen keeled processes without intermediate cilia ; lid cloven on 

 one side ; leaf-cells toward the upper part of the leaf punctiform. 



1 . P. squarrosa, Brid. — Hook. §• Wils. t. 1. ; Eng. Bot. t. 

 2767. ; {Moug. % Nest. n. 1119.) 



In peat-bogs. North of England. Bearing fruit in summer 

 on the Continent, but at present not found in England with 

 fruit. 



Dioicous ; forming bright-green or yellowish patches. Stems 

 densely clothed with purple rootlets ; leaves bent back, from 

 an erect base ; nerve ceasing below the tip ; margin recurved 



