1060 CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Hypnum. 
(E. Bot. 1493 —Muse. Brit. xxiv. E.)— Dill. 34. 8. 
Leaves convex above, the ends reflexed. Dill. Leaves inversely egg-shaped, 
but somewhat hollowed on the under edge: very broad at the end, but 
with a minute point. Fence leaves spear-awl-shaped. Capsules nearly 
upright. (The remarkable curvature of the leaf, (scymitar-shaped,) is 
peculiar to this Hypnum. Muse. Brit. E.) 
(B lunt Fern-like Feather-moss. H. trichomanoides. Schreb. Turn. 
Sm. Hook. E.) H. complanatum (3. Huds. and With. Ed. ii. Ditches 
in woods, and roots of trees. P. 
H. adiantoi'des. Plant somewhat branched: fruit-stalks from the 
side: capsules nearly cylindrical: lid conical, short; leafits 
spear-shaped. 
Dicks. H. S. — Hedw. Stirp. iii. 26— E. Bot. 264— Muse. Brit. xvi. E.)—~ 
Dill. 34. 3— Vaill. 28. 5— Buxh. ii. 1. 4. 
Two or three inches long, straight; leafits twelve to sixteen pair. Fruit- 
stalks one inch high. Neck. Branched from the base. Leaves not 
pointed. Capsules reclining. Lid red. Veil as long as capsule. Scop. 
Upright, branched. Leaves shining. Fruit-stalks red, lateral. Capsules 
brownish, turning red. Lid scarlet, pointed. Dill. Leafits not serrated 
as mentioned by Leers. Griff. (Walilenberg considers this a var. II. taxi- 
folium. E.) 
(Greater Fern-like Feather-moss. Dicranum adiantoides. Sw. Turn. 
Sm. Hook. E.) Fissidens adiantoides. Hedw. Bogs; moist heaths. 
P. Mar.—April. 
H. sylvat'icum. Plant branched, trailing: fruit-stalks from the side : 
leafits acute. 
Dill. 34. 6— {Muse. Brit. xxiv. E.) 
Shoots branched. Branches undivided, few, not shining. Fruit-stalks 
lateral. Lids of the capsule pointed. Dill. 
(Wood Feather-moss. E.) Woods, at the roots of trees. Rivelston 
wood near Edinburgh. Sir J. E. Smith. Near Bungay, Suffolk. Mr. 
Stone. P. April—May. 
H. complana'tum. Plant flatted, much branched: capsules egg- 
shaped : lid conical: leaves in two rows, tiled, bluntly egg- 
shaped, doubled together. 
\E. Bot. 1492— Muse. Brit. xxiv. E.)— Dill. 34. 7 — Vaill. 23. 4; and 21. 
17— H. Ox. xv. 5, row 2. 5 , and row 3. 15. 
Forming broad leafy strata on the trunks of trees. Plant from one to three 
or four inches long, creeping. Leafits alternate, in two rows, in the 
young shoots very closely crowded. FVm7-stalks half an inch high, 
numerous on the rnid-rib, or from the fork of the branches. Fence large, 
hairy. Capsule egg-shaped. Lee? conical, beaked. Weis. Two or three 
inches long. Branches opposite, or alternate. Leaves soft, pellucid, 
yellow green, shining. Fence scaly. Veil slander, whitish, crooked. 
Dill. 
(Flat Feather-moss. E.) Trunks of trees, common. 
P, March—April. 
