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spreading when moist, contrary to the usual rule ; the inner a cone, sieve-like, 

 with sixteen angles ; these being cilia, joined by cross-bars, and beset internally 

 with spurs. 



Fig. 14. Fontinalis antipyeetica. 

 Incombustible Moss (a) . 



Colour. Grey green. 



Stems. Very long, branched. 



Leaves (6) . Three-ranked, ovate-acuminate, large and coarse looking, margin 

 folded in on one side, the same side folded on the same branch. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule oval, brown, numerous, immersed. 

 Summer. 



Locality. Common in water, and on wood by river banks. 



Fig. 15. Fontinalis Squamosa. 

 Alpine Water Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dark green. 



Stems. Very much branched, base filiform ; branches fasciculate. 

 Leaves (b) . Lanceolate, concave. 



Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous ; capsule oval, immersed ; rare. Summer. 

 Locality. Mountain streams. Common. 



Dichelyma capiUaceum, Bristly Water Moss, though included in the " Bryologia 

 Britannica," we have not given here, as it is a doubtful native. 



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