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BRITISH MOSSES. 



(b) . Stems longer, branched. Capsule oval. Annulus persistent. 



Fig. 3. Gymnostomum eupestbe. 

 Bock Beardless Moss (a) . 



Colour. Bright green. 



Stems. Half-inch long, branched, with roots from the junction of the branch 

 and stem (axil) . 



Leaves (5) . Much crowded, linear-lanceolate, obtuse ; nerve ceasing below the 

 point. 



Capsule. Oval, thin of texture, brownish and polished; rather inclined. Autumn. 

 Locality. On wet rocks, in mountain districts. 



Fig. 4. Gymnostomum cuevieosteum. 

 Curve-beaked Beardless Moss (a) . 



Colowr. Grass green. 



Stems. Half-inch long-, branched, thickly covered with roots, plants closely 

 tufted. 



Leaves (b) . Linear-lanceolate, acute, margins recurved, spreading. 



Capsule. Ovate, large comparatively, lid with a long curved beak. Autumn. 



Locality. Moist rocks in mountain districts. 



II. Monoicous. Leaves crisped when dry, their margins never recurved. 



(a) . Capsule contracted at the mouth, sporangium united to the 

 summit of the columella. 



Fig. 5. Gymnostomum squaeeosum. 

 Spreading-leaved Beardless Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Quarter of an inch or more long; ha loose tufts. 



Leaves (b) . Spreading every way (squarrose) , lanceolate ; nerve excurrent. 



Capsule. Ovate, lid beaked. Spring. 



Locality. On earth, in fields, &c. 



