xlvi KEY TO THE GENERA. 



either with distinct swollen auricles, or else more or less squarrose and entire 



115. Hypnu 

 not conspicuously auricled, not squarrose and entire -> 



("Ls. 



(Ls- 



j- /Stem often pinnate 112. Eurkynchiu 



■'XStem irregularly branched ** no. Brachytheciu 



This would include H. riparium^ the leaves of which are not auricled, and are scarcely squarros 

 though widely divergent and straight when dry. 



** See also the introductory remarks to these Genera. 



