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DROOPING-LEAYED FEATHER MOSS 



(Hylocomium squamosum). 

 Stem slender, erect, slightly divided, with a few scattered 

 branchlets. Leaves rough, with projecting or deflexed scales 

 (= squamose) ; very much pointed (acuminate) and recurved. 

 Forming green soft tufts about 2 inches high, in pastures, 

 woods, heaths, &c. Extremely common. Bearing fruit (but 

 rarely) in winter. (Hypnacea.) 



BUD-HEADED THREAD MOSS {Aulacomnium andvogynum). 



Forming dense cushion-like (pulvinate), bright green tufts 

 on banks, trunks of trees, stones, &c. Bearing fruit (but 

 rarely) in summer. Peculiar in frequently bearing repro- 

 ductive buds [gemma) instead of fruit. The gems were 

 formerly mistaken for the male blossoms, whence the specific 

 name. (Meeseacece.) 



TAMARISK-LEAVED FEATHER MOSS 



{Thuidium tamariscinum). 

 Growing in loose, deep green tufts, in woods and on banks ; 

 common. It fruits in November, but the fruit is very rarely 

 seen. The stem is more or less clothed with numerous 

 branched, thread-like bodies {villi). The heart-shaped leaves, 

 toothed on the margin, have minute projections (papilla) on 

 both surfaces. It is often proliferous, i.e., it produces 

 young plants from various parts of its surface ; hence the 

 old name Hypnum pvoliferum . (Hypnacece.) 



APPLE MOSS (Bartramia pomifovmis). 

 Forming soft, yellowish-green cushions on dry shady banks, 

 and in fissures of rocks on a sandy or granitic soil. Leaves 

 spreading, twisted when dry, strongly serrated, the nerve 

 reaching to the top. Capsules apple-shaped and topped 

 by a slightly curved lid. The fruit ripens in spring. 

 (BavtramiacecB.) 



