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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Hypncm. 
(Shining- Feather-moss. H. lucens. Linn. Hedw. Huds. Lightf. Dicks. 
Sm. Hookeria lucens. E. Bot. Hook. Woods, wet ditches, moist banks, 
and among rocks. E.) P. April—June. 
B. (1) Branches irregular : leaves irregular : capsules upright. 
H. stella'tum. Shoots upright: leaves egg-shaped, ending in long 
points, rather expanding, coloured. 
Dicks. H. S. — Dicks. 1. 7— {E. Bot. 1302— Muse. Brit. xxvi. E.)— Dill. 
39. 35— Vaill. 28. 10. 
Shoots somewhat branched, rather tawny at the base, yellowish at the end. 
Leaves spear-awl-shaped, the ends standing out. Fruit-stalks few, late¬ 
ral, nearly an inch long, almost upright, red. Capsules egg-shaped, but 
bulging on one side. Lid short, pointed, distinguishable at first sight 
from H. cuspidatum, by the leaves at the ends of the stems not being 
rolled in, but expanding. Dicks. 
(Hooker discriminates var. a. majus ; yellow brown, not rare in fruit: in 
marshes. 
Var. (3. minus ; less upright, greener; with leaves more recurved: on walls 
and rocks. II. squarrulosum. E. Bot. 1709. 
Yellow Starry Feather-moss. II. stellatum. Schreb. Hedw. Turn. 
Sm. Hook. II. protensum. Dill. Turfy bogs, marshes, stone walls, and 
rocks. March. E.) 
H. Hal ? leri. Stem creeping, pinnate : the branches short, erect: all 
the leaves recurved, cordate, acuminate, obsoletely two-nerved 
at the base, subserrulate towards the apex: lid obtusely conical. 
Grev. Scot. Crypt. 174. 
Plant creeping closely on the rocks in diffused tufts, of a rich yellowish, or 
reddish brown colour. Stems two or three inches long, with erect 
branches, In general habit resembling the smaller varieties of the pre¬ 
ceding species. 
Hallerian Feather-moss. Rare. Discovered by Dr. Greville on Ben 
Lawers. Scot. Crypt. E.) 
H. sciuroPdes. Shoot upright, somewhat branched, bent: leaves 
tiled, egg-spear-shaped, hair-pointed: capsules oblong, lid 
conical. 
(E. Bot. 1903— Muse. Brit . xx. E.)— Dill. 41. 54— Vaill. 27. 12 —Kniph. 
6— If. Ox. xv. 5, row the last , 27. 
Shoots two inches long, cylindrical. Involucruni rising half way up the 
fruit-stalk. Neck. ^Stern creeping, three or four inches long. Shoots 
from one to one and a half inch ; seldom branched. Leaves closely tiled, 
egg-spear-shaped, pointed, ending in hairs. Fruit-stalks lateral, up¬ 
right, half an inch high. Involucrum slender, scaly. Capsules cvlindri- 
cal-egg-shaped. Lid conical, pointed. Fringe white. Veil yellow at 
the end. Weis. Creeping, interwoven, fixed to the bark of trees. 
venture a conjecture without having seen the identical specimens, we should be disposed to 
consider this questionable production might prove to be var. Conferva gelatinosa, or 
some analogous species. Consider also Note, vol. iv. p. 70. E.) 
