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Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsule long, curved,and arc uate, especially when 



dry, contracted below the mouth. Spring. 

 Locality. Stones in water. 



Fig. 4. Hypnum elodes. 



Fine-leaved Marsh Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Brown green. 



Stems. Slender, pinnate ; branches slender, weak and straggling. 

 Leaves (b) . Minute, distant, lanceolate, acuminate, nerved almost the whole 

 length. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta long*; capsule large, ovate, cernuous. Spring. 

 Locality. Marshes and bogs. 



Fig. 5. Hypnum serpens. 

 Creeping Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Creeping, pinnate, filiform ; plant very small. 



Leaves (b) . Ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly serrate, nerved almost the 



whole length; but variable, as in many species. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta variable ; capsule large, cylindrical, long, 



in dry places short and ovate. Spring. 

 Locality. Very common in all situations. 



Fig. 6. Hypnum radicals. 

 Long-stalked Creeping Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Emerald green. 



Stems. Creeping, branches, irregular, l'igid, erect. 



Leaves (b) . Minute, spreading, cordate-ovate, acuminate ; nerve ceasing near the 

 apex. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta long, capsule large, long, cernuous, arched. 

 Spring. 



Locality. Moist ground, among grass. 



