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Plate XXXVIII. 



HYPNEiE (continued). 



4. Stems procumbent, pinnate, fructification near the base, leaves falcate, secund. 



Fig. 1. Hypnum hamulosum. 

 Hook-leaved Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Procumbent, pinnate, branches very slender, with the extremities hooked. 

 Leaves (6) . Ovate-lanceolate, circinnate-acuminate, nerveless, hooked at the 



ends of the branches. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous, with detached barren flowers among the leaves 



(nidulant) . Capsule arched, cylindrical. Summer. 

 Locality. Alpine situations. 



Fig. 2. Hypnum cupeessifoeme. 

 Cypress-leaved Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Grass green. 



Stems. Procumbent, branches few, flat. 



Leaves (b) . Falcate, secund, lanceolate-acuminate, sub-serrated, base two- 

 nerved or nerveless. 



Floiuers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule cylindrical, curved, lid conical. Winter. 

 Locality. Walls, &c. Common. 



A very variable species, but always with strongly falcate leaves. 



Fig. 3. Hypnum eesupinatum. 

 Upward-turned Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 

 Stems. Creeping, pinnate. 



Leaves (b) . Ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, nerveless, pointing upwards. 



