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Leaves (6) . Ovate-acuminate ; spreading, slightly serrate above, margin recurved, 



nerve various ; areola minute. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta curved; capsule elliptical; peristome double, 



yellow ; the outer of sixteen teeth, united at the base, the inner of sixteen 



perforate cilia. Calyptra brown. Spring. 

 Locality. Rocks and trees in mountainous districts. The singular trees known 



as "Wistinan's Wood," on Dartmoor, are densely clothed with this moss. 



LEPTODON. 



Leptodon Smithii. 

 Curly Moss. 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Pinnate twice (hi-pinnate) ; extremely hygroscopic; when dry and when 

 wet hardly recognizable as the same ; (b) represents the wet, (c) the dry 

 moss ; creeping. 



Leaves (d) . Round, entire, margin recurved in the lower part ; nerve ceasing 

 above the middle. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta short ; capsule (a) elliptical, beak rather 

 curved ; peristome of sixteen lanceolate teeth, with a slight trace of an 

 inner peristome. Spring. 



Locality. Trunks of trees in the south of England. 



ANOMODON. 



Fig. 9. Anomodon viticulosus, 

 Long Tail Moss (a) , 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Long, branches few, erect, brittle, tufted. 

 Leaves (b) . Lingulate ; nerve transparent, ceasing below the apex. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous; seta long, capside erect, elliptical. Rare. 

 Locality. Rocks and trees in limestone districts. 



