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shoots are two or three lines in length ; the leaflets seven or 
eight pair ; fruit-stalks long or longer than the shoots, gene - 
rally solitary, reddish ; leaves green, not pellucid ; capsules 
small, upright, oblong, green ; veil very small, greenish ; 
lid scarlet ; mid-rib of the leaflets pellucid. 
The growing-place of this minute hypnum had much of 
grandeur and sublimity. A vast plain extended on all sides, 
looking in the distance like a desolate wilderness, or rather 
as an ocean after a storm, heaving in large swells, and yet 
presenting on a nearer view an almost endless continuation 
of narrow valleys, of lofty hills and craggy rocks, strewn 
either in their depth or far up their sides with enormous 
masses of huge stones. 
Ili/pnum, triguetrum and undulatum, equally affect the 
dissimilar localities of Dartmoor. The first, Great Triangular 
Feather-moss, abounds upon the roots of trees, and on dry 
pebbly banks ; the other, which bears the name of Waved 
Feather-moss, prefers shady places, woods, and moist rocks, 
or the top of Snowdon. This fine species differs essentially 
from the rest of its genus, by having white, membranous, 
and undulated leaves, and still more remarkably from all its 
British congeners, by furrowed capsules. It is a span long, 
lying flat ; the leaflets are closely tiled, in a double or triple 
series ; the fruit-stalks long, slender, reddish ; veil, straw- 
coloured, with a brown spot at the end ; the leaves are 
tender, pellucid, smooth, shining, pale green, and not chang- 
ing colour when dry. 
The Triguetrum presents a widely different appearance, 
indicating that it dwells low upon the ground. The branches 
are unequal ; the leaves broad, triangular, not keeled, tender, 
pellucid, pointed, pale green when growing ; involucrum 
ridged, oblong, composed of reflected scales, sometimes two 
or three together ; fruit- stalks seldom more than an inch 
high ; capsules upright, thin, when ripe thicker, leaning, 
and crooked. The whole plant spreads to a foot in length, 
reddish, elastic, rising upwards, often growing upright, 
