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Leaves (b) . Ovate, with a coloured border ; lower ones remote, terminal larger. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule pendulous, pyriform, lid conical. Spring. 

 Locality. West of England. Kent. Ireland, in damp shady places. Fruit 

 rare. 



Fig. 22. Beyum eoseum. 

 Rosette Thread Moss (a) . 



Colour. Emerald green. 



Stems. Branched, base decumbent, radiculose, in patches. 



Leaves. Lower very small, lanceolate ; upper very large, in a star-like rosette, 

 apiculate, serrated above ; lower margin recurved. (See title.) 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Barren flower round, yellow, conspicuous ; seta 

 very long; capsule oblong, incurved, pendulous, sometimes two or three 

 together, rare. 



