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Fig. 4. Racomitrium protensum. 

 Sage-coloured Woolly Moss (a) . 



Colour. Sage green. 



Stems. Long-, slender, not rigid ; leafy to the base. 

 Leaves (b) . Spreading", lanceolate-subulate, obtuse. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule nearly cylindrical, teeth of peristome 



short. Spring. 

 Locality. Moist rocks. 



Fig. 5. Racomitrium sudeticum. 



Slender Woolly Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Brownish green, grey with hairs. 



Stems. Long, slender, branched dichotomously ; base decumbent. 

 Leaves (b) . Base erect, spreading, lanceolate with white transparent (diaphanous) 

 points. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule small, pale in colour, elliptical ; seta short. 



Spring. 

 Locality. Alpine rocks. 



II. Steins irregularly branched ; branches lateral, not fastigiate. 

 {Racomitrium of some botanists.) 



Fig. 6. Racomitrium pasciculare. 

 Bundled Woolly Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Long, branches in bunches, short. 



Leaves (b) . Spreading, recurved, lanceolate ; margin recurved. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule elliptical ; lid long and subulate ; teeth of 



peristome very long ; annulus large. Spring. 

 Locality. Common on rocks. 



