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Plate XXXVI 



HYPNE^E (continued) . 



C. Stem pinnate, or bi-pinnate, erect, with branched fibres (villi) among the 

 leaves ; fructification from the upper part of the stem. 



1. Stern simply pinnate. 



Fig. 1. Hypnum abietinum. 

 Pine-tree Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Erect, rigid, thickly covered with villi, branches attenuated. 



Leaves (b) . Imbricated, erecto-patent, ovate-acuminate, plicate, serrate, covered 



with glands (papillose), nerved almost to the apex. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule cylindrical, cernuous ; not found in Britain, 



and extremely rare. 

 Locality. Bocks, &c, and near the sea. 



Fig. 2. Hypnum Blandovii. 

 Blandoiv's Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Erect, thick, covered with villi, branches slender, regular, numerous. 

 Leaves (b) . Broadly ovate, acute, keeled, serrulate, margin recurved, nerve 

 almost to the apex. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; seta long; capsules numerous, oblong, curved; 

 May. 



Locality. Bogs. Rare. 



