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BRITISH MOSSES. 



Fig. 6. Isothecium alopecurum. 

 Fox-tail Frond Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dark green. 



Stems. One to fonr inches in height, much branched, tree-like, the tuft of 



branches pinnated; base often with stolons. 

 Leaves (b) . Ovate-lanceolate, spreading, serrated, nerved, crowded ; nerve 



prominent ; stem-leaves few and scale-like. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule ovate, erect or inclined, not commonly 



found , but numerous when it does occur ; beak oblique ; peristome as 



Hypnum. Winter and Spring. 

 Locality. Rocks and trees in sub-alpine districts. 



CLIMACIUM. 



Branches spreading from all sides ; stems without innovations, but when it has 

 become prostrate it sends up lateral shoots, much in the way of the tree-like 

 Mnium undidatum. Peristome double ; outer of sixteen teeth, linear-lanceolate, 

 base confluent ; inner of sixteen linear processes, divided each into two segments 

 connected at the apex. 



Climactum dendroides.* 

 Tree Moss. 



Colour. Brownish green. 



Stems. Two to four inches high, branched, branches very long. 

 Leaves (b) . Ovate-lanceolate ; apex serrulate ; nerve ceasing below the apex. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous; seta very long; capsules elliptical, very numerous. 

 Autumn. 



Locality. Bogs and marshes. Fruit not common. 



* Humboldt, in his " Aspects of Nature," speaks of this moss as " a true tree." 



