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Leaves (b) . Spreading on all sides, crowded, erecto-patent, lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, almost hair-pointed, nerve ceasing below the apex. 



Flowers and Fruit. Synoicous ; capsule nearly erect, not symmetrical, apophysis 

 short, lid long. Winter. 



Locality. Moist rocks and on trees in sub-alpine districts. 



CRYPTOTHECEiE. 



Fig. 12. Characteristics of Order. 



Stems from a creeping rbizoma, pinnate, capsule immersed, oval oblong, lid 

 beaked, calyptra (c) conico-mi triform. Peristome double, outer teeth forming a 

 cone when moist. 



Cryph^a heteromalla. 

 Lateral Cryphcea (a) . 



Colour. Yellow green. 



Stems. Procumbent, branched. 



Leaves (b) . Spreading, imbricated, ovate, concave, nerved more than half-way, 

 margin recurved. 



Floivers and Fruit. Monoicous ; capsules many, on the upper side of the 

 branches, oblong, immersed, calyptra brown, rough, covering the capsule. 

 Spring. 



Locality. Trunks of trees. Common. A variety with longer stems found in 

 water. 



FONTINALEiE. 



Fig. 13. Characteristics op Order. 



Mosses growing in water, stems very long and branched, slender, floating, only 

 rooted at the base, bare of leaves below. Leaves three-ranked, crowded, areolae 

 narrow. Capsule immersed, ovate or oval, pedicel rooted in the receptacle 

 (vaginula) . Calyptra small. Annulus none. Peristome (Fig. 13) large and very 

 curious ; bright red, the outer of sixteen teeth, united in pairs at the apex, with 

 prominent bars internally, very long, subulate, hygroscopic, incurved when dry, 



