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BRITISH MOSSES. 



Fig. 7. Hypnum riparium. 

 Short-beaked Water Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Grass green. 



Stems. Procumbent, pinnate. 



Leaves (b) . Large, spreading on each side, ovate-lanceolate, not serrated, nerved 



more than half-way. 

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

 Locality. Stones and trunks of trees, in places which are sometimes overflowed. 



(a) . Leaves acute, nerve short or none. 

 Fig. 8. Hypnum polygamum. 

 Cluster-flowerecl Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Procumbent, pinnate, branches short, spreading. 



Leaves (b) . Ovate-lanceolate, spreading, not serrated (entire) , nerved above 

 half-way. 



Floivers and Fruit. Polygamous; flowers clustered; seta long; capsule oblong, 



sub-cernuous. Summer. 

 Locality. Wet places and swamps. 



Fig. 9. Hypnum stellatum. 

 Yellow Starry Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Erect, tufted, branched irregularly. 



Leaves (b) . Large, squarrose, recurved, horn-shaped [cuspidate) at the ends of the 



branches, deltoid-ovate, points very long, nerve none. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta very long, capsule arcuate, oblong, cernuous. 



Summer. 

 Locality. Bogs and marshes. 



