78 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Fig. 11. Dicranum rufescens. 

 Red Fori Moss {a) . 



Colour. Red brown. 



Stems. Half-inch long, not much branched. 



Leaves. Linear-lanceolate, margin plane ; very slightly toothed. 



Capsule. Red, set straight on the seta, but the seta itself bent and twisted 



round; ovate, lid conical. Winter. 

 Locality. Common on moist sandy banks. 



VI. HETEROMALLA. 



Stems half-inch to one inch long, caespitose. Leaves secund, lanceolate, glossy. 

 Dioicous. Capsule cernuous or nearly erect, striated, beak long. 



Fig. 12. Dicranum subulatum. 

 Awl-leaved Forlc Moss (a) . 



Colour. Grass green. 



Stems. Half-inch long, in loose tufts. 



Leaves. Secund, those at the base lanceolate, the upper lanceolate-subulate ; 



nerve prominent. 

 Capsule. Cernuous, ovate, beak long, seta red. Autumn. 



Locality. Shady banks in mountainous regions in the north of Engiand and 

 Scotland. 



DlCRANUM CERVICULATUM. 



Spur-necked Fori Moss. 



Colour. Dark green. 



Stems. Half-inch long, not much branched, tufted. 



Leaves. Lanceolate-subulate, base broad and sheathing; nerve broad and strong; 

 spreading. 



Capsule. Roundish oval, strumose, furrowed when dry and empty ; beak long ; 



seta long and yellow. Summer. 

 Locality. Common on banks. 



