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Plate XXXV. 



HYPNE^E {continued), 

 (b) . Leaves roundish, obtuse, entire. 

 Fig. 1. Hypnum palustee. 

 Water Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Creeping, branched, branches irregular, curved (cuspidate) at the ex- 

 tremities. 



Leaves (b) . Secund, elliptical, concave, nerve reaching more than half-way, 



those of the perichastium striated, erect. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous; capsule ovate, cernuous, not horizontal, lid 



conical. Summer. 

 Locality. Stones in rivulets. 



Fig. 2. Hypnum molle. 

 Soft Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Procumbent, creeping, branched ; branches short, obtuse. 

 Leaves (b) . Concave, elliptic, acuminate, entire, scale-like, flabby in texture, 

 two-nerved. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous (?) capsule ovate, seta curved. Summer (?) 

 Locality. Rocks and stones in rivulets. Not common. 



Fig. 3. Hypnum dilitatum. 

 Broad-leaved Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Brown green. 



Stems. Slender, branched, branches straight, simple. 



Leaves (b) . Broadly ovate, suddenly acuminate, point obtuse, serrated, nerved 

 half-way. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous (?) capsule broad, sub-erect. Summer (?) 

 Locality. Near Aber, North Wales. Mr. Wilson's MS. 



