CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Hypnum. 
1063 
Branches numerous, upright, simple or divided, but generally bent like 
the tail of a squirrel. Involucrum at the base of the branches, slender, 
scales narrow, ending in short hairs. Capsules upright, dark brown when 
ripe. Lid very small. Fruit-stalks twisting when dry. Dill. 
(Squirrel-tail Feather-moss. H. sciuroides. Linn. Dill. Huds. With. 
Relh. Dicranum sciuroides. Sw. Sm. Leucodon sciuroides. Schwaegr. 
Hook. Pterogonium sciuroides. Turn. E.) Trunks of old trees. Bun¬ 
gay. Mr. Stone. (New Forest, Hants. Mr. Lyell. In Scotland rare. 
Near Invermoriston; the most northern habitation known for this plant. 
Muse. Brit. E.) P. Feb.—April. 
H. rufes'cens. Branches compressed: leaves hair-pointed, shining : 
capsules upright: lid conical. Dicks. 
( E. Bot. 2296— Muse. Brit. xxv. E.)— Dicks. 8. 4. 
But little branched ; branches cylindrical but flatted, entirely covered with 
the tiled leaves, which are slender, straight, spear-shaped, ending in a 
hair, seldom a full green, but generally yellowish or reddish. Capsules 
nearly cylindrical, slender, upright. Fringe white. Lid crimson, coni¬ 
cal, acute. Hal. Has been confounded with H. nitens , but differs from 
that in having upright capsules, a very short involucrum, and few, but 
long branches. Dicks. Fasc. iff. p. 9. 
(Reddish Shining Feather-moss. By error of the press IJ. refuscens 
of With. Ed. 3. 4 and 5. E.) Cryb y Ddeseil, though rarely with cap¬ 
sules. Mr. Griffith. (On wet rocks in the Highlands of Scotland. Mr. 
Dickson. Covering the perpendicular rocks by the falls of Moness, in 
fructification. Mr. W. Borrer. This very beautiful Moss, with stems 
four or five inches long, is not uncommon in Scotland. Muse. Brit. E.) 
H. crisp'um. Shoots ascending: fruit-stalks lateral: capsules oblong: 
beak of the lid bent: leaves oblong, blunt, wrinkled, in two 
rows. 
Dicks. H. S. — (E. Bot. 617. E.)— Dill. 36. 12— Dali. Enum. 3. 5, at p. 109, 
Hist. 46. 5, at iff. p. 56— Happ. ii. Hypn. 5— II. Ox. xv. 5, row 3. 10, 
p. 625. 
The most elegant of the genus. Grows in dense broad strata. Shoots a 
span long, flat, a little raised. Leafits closely tiled, alternate, in two 
rows, spear-shaped, blunt, shining, wrinkled. Fruit-stalks half an inch 
long, lateral. Involucrum , leaves paler. Capsules nearly upright, egg- 
shaped. Lid with a long beak. Veil long. Weis. From two to twelve 
inches long, crowded and lying one upon another, branches compressed, 
blunt, undivided, alternate or in pairs. Leaves crisped, transversely 
waved. The whole plant is pale green in winter, yellowish in summer. 
Dill. 
(Crisped Feather-moss. E.) On chalk hills near Gravesend, and on 
the banks of the Thames above the reach of the tide. On St. Vincent’s 
Rocks, Bristol; and on the Welsh mountains. About Kirkby Lonsdale, 
Westmoreland. Sir J. E. Smith. On rocks in Ga.rn gingle, three miles 
from Denbigh. Mr. Griffith. (Stony banks in the vale of Dudeombe, 
Painswick ; in fruit. Mr. O. Roberts. E.) P. March—April.* 
* (M. Parmentier has published some observations on this Moss, proposing it as a sub¬ 
stitute for wool for stuffing mattresses and furniture. When beaten and properly prepared, 
it is said not to retain moisture, nor form into lumps. It is little liable to decay, and is 
