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BRITISH MOSSES. 



Leaves. Very small, denticulate, few. 



Flowers and Fruit. Capsule erect, elliptic ; lid long. Winter. 

 Locality. Shady banks. 



Fig. 4. Fissidens vieidulus. 

 Little Green Flat Moss (a) . 



Colour. Deep green. 



Stems. Very short, in patches. 



Leaves (b) . Few ; lanceolate, bordered ; nerve to the apex. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsule minute, oval, inclined ; lid acuminate. 



Autumn. 

 Locality. Shady banks. 



Variety. — F. Incurvus, with curved capsule, spreading leaves, and fruit ripen- 

 ing in spring, <f may be," Mr. Wilson says, " a distinct species." 



Fig. 5. Fissidens bryoides. 

 Mungo Parle's Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dark green. 

 Stems. Half-inch long. 



Leaves (b) . Spreading, apiculate, bordered. 



Floivers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsule erect, elliptical ; lid scarlet. Spring. 

 Locality. Shady places. 



Variety. — F. aquatilis (Fig. 6 a). Stems one inch long; leaves (b) many, 

 narrower and more distant ; capsule smaller ; seta shorter. Wet places. 



Fig. 6. Fissidens Osmundoides. 

 Alpine Flat Moss [a) . 



Dark green. 



Ono inch long, tufted, radiculose. 



Colour. 

 Stems. 



