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Leaves (b) . Base sheathing, lanceolate-subulate, straight when dry, serrated ; 

 nerve prominent. 



Flowers and Fruit. Synoicous ; seta long ; capsule round, horizontal. 

 Locality. Mountain rocks. 



Fig. 11. Bartramia aecuata. 

 Curve-stalked Apple Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Very long ; thickly radiculose, innovations many. 



Leaves (b) . Lanceolate, folded, sheathing at the base, spreading above, twisted 



. when dry, serrulate. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta curved ; capsule pendulous, round. Autumn. 

 Locality. Wet rocks. Fruit rare. 



CONOSTOMUM. 



Fig. 12. Conostohum boreale. 

 Cone-fringe Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Branched, radiculose, half- inch to two inches long ; in thick matted tufts. 

 Leaves (b) . Lanceolate, acuminate, imbricated, five-rowed. 



Flowers and Fruit, Dioicous ; capsule roundish, erect, lid beaked ; peristome (c) 



of sixteen deep red, barred teeth, united at the top into a cone. Autumn. 

 Locality. Scottish mountains. 



