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BRITISH MOSSES. 



Plate XXXIV, 



HYPNEiE (continued). 

 3, Lid conical. 

 Fig. 1. Hypnum ateovieens. 



Brown Mountain Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Brown green. 



Stems. Prostrate, branches few, irregular, and very variable ; when barren, long 



and slender, when fertile, short. 

 Leaves (6) . Ovate-lanceolate, sub-serrate, acuminate, imbricated, nerve almost 



to the apex ; margin recurved below. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule small, cylindrical, slightly cemuous. Rare. 



Spring. 

 Locality. Alpine rocks. 



Fig. 2. Hypnum fluviatile. 

 Brook-side Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Brownish. 



Stems. Procumbent, branches prostrate ; few. 



Leaves (b) . Ovate, imbricated, not serrated, incurved when dry; nerve thick. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta thick, capsule long, large, curved. Summer. 

 Locality. Rocks and stones in rivulets. 



Fig. 3. Hypnum ieeiguum. 

 Rigid Brook-side Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dark green. 

 Stems. Stiff, pinnate. 



Leaves (b) . Spreading, secund, acuminate, serrulate ; nerve strong, deltoid- 

 ovate ; not crowded. 



