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Leaves (b) . Imbricated, secund, ovate-acuminate, nerve strong, margin reflexed 

 below. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta long ; capsule erect, cylindrical ; outer peris- 

 tome of sixteen nearly white teeth, hygroscopic, when wet spreading, when 

 dry bent in the form of a " staple." Autumn. 



Locality. Roots of trees, near rivers. 



B. Leaves striated. 



Leseea seeicea. 



Silky Leskea. Golden Moss. 

 Colour. Golden green, very shiny and silky looking. 

 Stems. Procumbent ; branches erect, numerous, curved slightly. 

 Leaves (b) . Imbricated ; numerous, plicate, lanceolate-acuminate ; nerve ceasing 

 below the apex. 



Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsules cylindrical, erect, brown, numerous. 

 All winter. 



Locality. Clothing trunks of trees, walls, and rocks, with thick shaggy fleeces. 

 A most lovely moss, the commonest of the genus. 



Fig. 9. Leseea ktjfescens. 

 Red Leskea (a) . 



Colour. Red and green. 



Stems. Erect, branched, in tufts. 



Leaves (b) . Long, erect, plicate, nerveless, lanceolate, much acuminate. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta very long ; capsule cylindrical and erect, or 



curved and rather inclined. Rare. Autumn. 

 Locality. Moist rocks. 



