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II. Cladocarpous. 



Fig. 3. Cinclidotds fontanaloides. 

 Smaller Water Screiv Moss (a) . 



Colour. Blackish green. 



Stems. Long, floating-, branched. 



Leaves (/>) . Lanceolate, keeled ; nerve excurrent, those of the pericheethrm 

 sheathing. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsules immersed ; very abundant. Spring. 

 Locality. On rocks and stones in water. 



SUB -ORDER X. 



EN C AL YPTEiE . (Figs. 4—9.) 



Fig. 4. Characteristics op Order. 



Mosses tufted, erect ; leaves in five rows, linear or lanceolate ; capsule (Fig. 4) 

 on a long seta, entirely enveloped in the bell-shaped calyptra, which remains until 

 the lid falls off ; peristome single or double, very variable, generally of thirty-two 

 teeth united in pairs. Perennial, on rocks and on earth. 



(a) . Peristome none. 



Fig. 5. Encalypta commutata. 



Sharp-leaved Extinguisher Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Brownish green. 



Stems. Half-inch to one inch long, branched, with roots {radicidose) . 

 Leaves (b) . Spreading, base sheathing, incurved when dry, lanceolate ; nerve 

 excurrent. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous, lid beaked. Summer. 

 Locality. On the summits of the Scottish mountains. 



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