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BRITISH MOSSES. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta slender, smooth ; capsule short, ovate ; lid 



conical. Winter. 

 Locality. Grassy banks. 



Fig. 6. Hypnum lutescens. 

 Rough-stalked Yellow Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Greenish yellow. 



Stems. Nearly erect, branches irregular, spreading. 



Leaves (b) . Ovate-lanceolate, entire, acuminate, striated ; nerve ceasing below 

 the apex. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous; seta long, rough; capsule oblong, cernuous. 

 Spring. 



Locality. Limestone rocks and sandy banks. 



Fig. 7. Hypnum plicatum. 

 Plaited-leaved Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Brownish green. 



Stems. Procumbent, creeping, branched irregularly ; branches ascending, 

 curved. 



Leaves (b) . Imbricate, ovate-acuminate, nerved above half-way, margin recurved ; 

 very much plicate. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule ovate-oblong, cernuous ; barren in 

 Britain. 



Locality. Alpine rocks. Ben Lawers, Mr. Lyon in " Bryologia Britannica." 



B. Leaves smooth, mostly serrated. 

 1. Fruitstalk rough. 

 Fig. 8. Hypnum plumosum. 

 Rusty Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Rusty. 



Stems. Creeping, pinnate, but also with long erect branches. 



