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BRITISH MOSSES. 



Leaves (b) . Lanceolate-acuminate ; the upper with hair points ; margins 



recurved. 

 Capsule. Barren in Britain. 

 Locality. Prestwick Can*, Northumberland. 



Fig. 8. Campylopus longipilus. 

 Long-leaved Swom-neck Moss (a) . 



Colour. Sooty green. 



Stems. One to three inches long, in tufts, branched. 



Leaves (b) . Lanceolate-subulate, erect, point white, patent ; nerve broad. 

 Capsule. Unknown. 



Locality. Wet places among mountains, where it may at once be distinguished 

 among all other mosses by its round thick tufts of a sooty green colour. It 

 is the commonest of the species. 



