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Fig. 10. Hypnum chrysophyllum. 

 Golden Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Golden green. 



Stems. Creeping, pinnate ; plants small. 



Leaves (b.) . Cordate-ovate, spreading, acuminate, entire, points recurved. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta long ; capsule cylindrical, cernuous, sub-erect. 



Rare. May. 

 Locality. Fallow ground. 



Fig. 11. Hypnum polymoephum. 

 Dwarf Starry Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Emerald green. 



Stems. Procumbent, filiform, hardly pinnate, very minute. 



Leaves (b) . Very small, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, spreading. 



Floiuers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta long, capsule large in proportion, oblong, 



curved, cernuous, not horizontal. Summer. 

 Locality. Walls &c, on limestone. 



Fig. 12. Hypnum Halleei. 

 Sailer's Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dark green. 



Stems. Creeping-, pinnate ; plants small. 



Leaves (b) . Crowded, spreading, ovate-acuminate, serrate, base faintly two- 

 nerved. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous (?) capsule oblong, curved, cernuous. Not found 

 in Britain. 



Locality. Alpine rocks. Rare. Ben Lawers, &c. Scotland. 



Fig. 13. Hypnum dimoephum. 

 Hair-like Feather Moss (ci) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Procumbent, pinnate, branches distant, extremely slender. 



