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BRITISH MOSSES. 



Leaves (b) . Ligulate, serrated above, much crowded. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsule narrow, inclined, rostrate. Spring (?) . 

 Locality. Bedd Gelert, Mr. Wilson's MS. 



Fig. 11. Fissidens taxifolius. 

 Yew-leaved Fern Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dark green. 



Stems. Branched from the base, clustered, half-inch long. 



Leaves (6) . Ligulate, apiculate ; nerve transparent and sometimes waved. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; both barren and fertile flowers almost upon the 



root ; capsule inclined, cernuous, beak long. Winter. 

 Locality. Moist banks. 



Fig. 12. Fissidens tamarindifolius. 

 Short-leaved Fern Moss {a) . 



Colour. Light green. 



Stems. Very short, fasciculate. 



Leaves. Elliptical, slightly falcate, few, distant apiculate, border transparent. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta from the base of the barren shoots, long, 



red ; capsule curved, lid conical. Spring. 

 Locality. Banks and fallow ground. 



