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Plate XXV. 



MEESIEiE. 



Fig. 1. Characteristics of Order. 

 Plants with branched stems ; seta long ; capsule irregular, mouth oblique 

 peristome double, fructification terminal. 



PALUDELLA. 

 Fig. 2. Paludella squarrosa. 

 Drooping-leaved Thread Moss (a) . 



Colour. Lig-ht green. 



Stems. Long-, branched, thickly radiculose. 



Leaves (b) . Spreading and recurved-ovate, lanceolate ; apex serrated ; nerve 



ceasing below the apex. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule oblique, irregular, elliptic ; peristome 



double. Barren in Britain. Summer. 

 Locality. Wet bogs. 



The only species of the genus. 



MEESIA. 

 Fig. 3. Meesia uliginosa. 

 Dxvarf Meesia (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Short, tufted, erect; innovations from the apex ; radiculose. 



Leaves (b) . Lanceolate, lower ones scattered, upper ones crowded ; nerve broad, 

 not continued to the apex. 



Flowers and Fruit. Both monoicous and synoicous on the same plant ; seta very 

 long; capsule (Fig.l) pyriform, gibbous at the back, mouth oblique ; peris- 

 tome double, outer of sixteen short teeth, inner longer, a membrane divided 

 into sixteen processes almost to the base. Summer. 



Locality. Wet places, chiefly in Scotland. 



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