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BRITISH MOSSES. 



Fig. 4. Hypnum eugyrium. 



Bundled Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Creeping, branched, branches in bunches. 

 Leaves (b) . Ovate-apiculate, obtuse, nerved, entire, smaller below. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Monoicous (?) capsule cernuous, ovate, seta short. 

 Locality. Rocks and stones. 



Fig. 5. Hypnum articum, 



Arctic Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Yellow green. * 

 Stems. Creeping, branched, branches long, simple, not pinnate, obtuse. 

 Leaves (b) . Roundish, entire, two-nerved ; the two nerves sometimes running 

 together. 



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

 Locality. Alpine rivulets. 



Fig. 6. Hypnum trifarium. 

 Three-ranked Feather Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Brown, tipped with green. 



Stems. Erect or procumbent, very long ; branches few, short. 



Leaves (b) . Mostly three-ranked, set like braid, entire, concave, roundish obtuse ; 



nerve nearly the whole length. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous (?) Ovate-oblong, cernuous. Not found in Britain. 

 Locality. Alpine bogs and hills. Not common. 



Fig. 7. Hypnum stramineum. 

 Straw-lilce Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Shining yellow. 



Stems. Erect, very long; branches few, erect. 



Leaves (b) . Imbricated, erecto-patent, elliptical, obtuse, nerved, entire. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Seta two to three inches long. Capsule large, 



ovate, cernuous. 

 Locality. Marshes, with Sphagnum. 



