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BRITISH MOSSES. 



Fig. 10. Hypnum pulchellum. 

 Neat Mountain Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Grass green. 



Stems. Short, branches erect, rather flat. 



Leaves (b) . Assurgent, secund, lanceolate, tapering to a point, nerveless, not 

 serrated. 



Mowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsule oblong, cernuous, lid apiculate. Summer. 

 Locality. Shady rocks. 



Fig. 11. Hypnum Muhlenbeckii. 



MuhlenbecTc's Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Grass green, glossy. 



Stems. Erect, tufted, branches fasciculate. 



Leaves (b) . Deltoid, acuminate, serrated, nerveless or two-nerved ; spreading, 

 secund. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsule oblong, base tapering, when dry 



striated. 

 Locality. Alpine rocks. 



Hypnum Silesiacum, Silesian Feather Moss, stems procumbent, branches 

 few, leaves assurgent, with points turned down; has been very rarely found in 

 Britain. 



E. Leaves complanate, stems procumbent. 



Fig. 12. Hypnum undulatum. 

 Waved Feather Moss (a) . 



Colour. Whitish or pale green. 

 Stems. Procumbent, branches few. 



Leaves (b) . Ovate, much waved, entire, base faintly two-nerved. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous (?); seta very long and slender; capsule curved and 

 furrowed when dry, narrow, lid half as long, beak short. Winter. 



