Its upright tree-like mode of growth is unusual among the 
genus, and this species seems to hold the same rank in it as 
the splendid Hypnum Menziesii, H. dendroideum, &c. among 
the Mosses, do with the rest of that genus. 
Fig. 1. Plant, natural size. Fig. 2. Leaf. Fig. 3. Scale of the spike of fruc- 
tification. Fig. 4. Scale with its bivalved capsule. Fig. 5. Capsule se- 
parated from the scale. Fig. 6. Seeds.— but Fig. 1. more or less mag- 
nified. 
