226 BRITISH MOSSES. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule erect, scarcely curved, oblong, lid oblique. 

 Winter. 



Locality. Walls, trunks of trees, &c, &c. 



Fig. 4. Hypnum pratense. 

 Meadow Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Grass green. 



Stems. Erect, branched; branches fiat. 



Leaves. Secund, spreading fiat on each side of the stem, (complanate) ovate- 

 lanceolate, nerveless. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule narrow, ovate, cernuous, base tapering; 

 not found in Britain. 



Locality. Moist banks, &c. 



Fig. 5. Hypnum ochraceum. 

 Yellow Mountain-rill Feather Moss {a) . 



Colour. Brownish. 



Stems. Erect, branched, branches few, flaccid. 

 Leaves (b) . Ovate-lanceolate, concave, nerve forked. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Seta red, capsule much tapering at the base. 

 Locality. In wet places among mountains. 



5. Leaves roundish, concave, entire. 



Fig. 6. Hypnum scorpioides. 

 Scorpion Feather Moss (a,) . 



Colour. Brownish. 



Stems. Long, branched irregularly; branches simple. 



Leaves. Crowded, falcate, secund, apiculate, large, making stem and branches 

 appear very broad and flat, nerveless or faintly two-nerved. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Seta very long, capsule large, curved, cernuous, 

 lid conical, pointed. 



Locality. Bogs. Fruit rare. 



