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Leaves (b) . Much crowded, circinnate, secund, subulate, base broad and sheathing. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule oblong, cernuous, lid conical. June. 

 Locality. Walls and rocks. 



Fig. 10. Hypnum falcatum. 

 Sickle-leaved Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Pinnate, slender, branches irregular. 



Leaves. Sickle-shaped, turned every way, base sheathing, points bent to the back 



of the branch, serrated. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous (?); seta long, capsule curved, oblong. Summer. 

 Locality. Walls and rocks, sometimes on the ground. 



Fig. 11. Hypnum commutatum. 

 Curled Fern Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Procumbent, thick with radicles, pinnate, branches very slender, ends 

 cusped. 



Leaves (b) . Circinnate, secund, twisted when dry, lanceolate, striated. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule very large, oblong, cernuous. Spring. 

 Locality. Wet places. 



Fig. 12. Hypnum pilicinum. 

 Lesser Golden Fern Feather Moss (a). 

 Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Pinnate, branches slender, stem with radicles. 

 Leaves (b) . Falcate, secund, ovate lanceolate. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; seta long, capsule narrow, cernuous 

 Locality. Wet places, chiefly in limestone. 



Spring. 



