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BRITISH MOSSES. 



CEdipodium Gkiffithianum. 

 Gouty Moss (b) . 



Colour. Dark green. 



Stems. Fertile very short, barren one and two inches long ; like the whole plant, 



very succulent; tufted. 

 Leaves (c) . Roundish, large, the lower part with filaments ; areolae large ; nerve 



ceasing below the apex. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Synoicous or monoicous ; capsule (a) globular, the neck long 



and passing into the fruit-stalk, mouth small, lid obtuse ; peristome none. 



Summer. 



Locality. Only found in Great Britain, where it grows in the crevices of rocks. 



