236 SYNOPSIS OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



Convohita, rolled together. 



Cribrose, like a sieve. 



Crura (legs), referring to teeth of peristome. 



Cueullate (cmcuUus), hooded. 



Cuspidate, with a short bristly point. 



Cyathiform, cup-shaped. 



Decv.rrent (of leaf), running down the stem. 



Dendroid, tree-like. 



Dentate, toothed. 



Denticulate, with smaller teeth. 



Diaphanous, semi-transparent. 



Dichotomous, forked. 



Dimidiate, split up one side. 



Dioieous, barren and fertile flowers on different plants. 



Distichous, inserted in two opposite rows. 



Divaricate, widely spreading. 



Dorsal, at the back. 



Erose, as if bitten or gnawed out. 



Excurrent (of nerve), continued beyond the apex of leaf. 



Exserted, standing out from the leaves. 



Falcate, falchion-shaped, or much bent. 



Fasciculate (stems or branches), of unequal height. 



Fastigiate ditto reaching to same height. 



Filiform, thread-like. 



Fugacious, falling early. 



Gemmiform or Gemmaceous, like a bud. 



Geniculate, suddenly bent like the leg when kneeling. 



Gibbous, swelling out, protuberant. 



Granulate, roughly dotted on surface. 



Gregarious, growing together^ but not matted. 



Hamate, Hamulose, bent like a hook. 



Hyaline, glassy. 



Hygrometrie {hygroscopic), moving when moistened. 



Imbricate, overlapping each other like tiles. 



Immersed (of capsule), when almost buried in the leaves. 



Inflexed, bent inwards. 



Julaceous, resembling a slender glossy worm. 



Lamina, the blade of the leaf. 



Idd, the cover to the mouth of capsule. 



i 



CL/U^f I '-(C-. ■ '. y\ a f HvO • ' A-\j 't 



^ J r> 



