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Fig. 11. Diceanum majus. 

 Great Fork Moss (a) . 



Colour. Grass green. 



Stems. Four to seven inches long. 



Leaves. Falcato-secund, very long, lanceolate-subulate, toothed from half way to 



the apex, waved across. 

 Capsule. Cernuous ; when young brown, when old blackish, striated, seta very 



long. Summer. 

 Locality. Shady places. 



The handsomest and largest of the species. 



LEUCOBRYUM. 

 WHITE FORK MOSS (Fig. 12). 



Genebic Chaeactee. 



Capsule and peristome much as in Dicranum. Stems branched. Leaves (a) the 

 base with a thin border, the centre and upper part of two layers of cellules, quad- 

 rangular, like lattice-work (b) . 



Leucobeyum glaucum. 



White Fori Moss (a) . 



Colour. White, deepening into sea-green, looking washed and faded. 



Stems. Forked, in dense round cushions. 



Leaves. Thick, very much crowded, lanceolate, obtuse. 



Capsule. Red brown ; sometimes two or three together ; very rare. 



Locality. Common on heaths and in woods. 



