56 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Leaves, (b) . Awl-sliaped (subulate) , serrated ; nerve running beyond the point 



(excurrent) . 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule brown, sessile. Winter. 

 Locality. Clay or chalk ; rare. Henfield Common, Sussex. (Mr. Mitten, in 

 " Bryologia Britannica.") 



Fig. 7. Phascum recurvifolium. 

 Stra/p-leaved Earth Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dull green. 

 Stems. Hardly any. 



Leaves (b) . Strap-shaped, toothed ; nerve strong, excurrent. 

 Flotuers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule larger than in the last species ; brown. 

 Winter. 



Locality. Heaths in various parts of England. 



2. Plants without thallus, or sea- weed like (confervoid) shoots. 



Fig. 8. Phascum muticum. 

 Common Earth Moss (a) . 



Colour. Sage green. 

 Stems. Hardly any. 



Leaves (b) . Broad, ovate, acuminate, toothed at the apex ; nerve strong and 

 broad, growing over each other, and pressed together above the capsule, so 

 that the plant is like a minute bulb, and of very stout texture. 



Floivers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule immersed, erect, on a short seta. 

 Autumn and Spring. 



Locality. Moist earth. Common. 



Fig. 9. Phascum triquetrum. 



Triangular Earth Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dull green, changing to brown. 

 Stems. Almost none. 



