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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Hypnum. 
the angles of the branches, composed of short, narrow, reflexed scales. 
Fruit-stalks one and a half to two inches long. Capsules rust-coloured, 
crooked when ripe. Lid pointed. Dill. 
(This fine species differs most strikingly from the rest of the genus by its 
peculiar habit, its white membranous and undulated leaves; and still 
more remarkably from all its British congeners by its furrowed capsules, 
giving it the same relation with the Hypna as Mnium bears to Bryum. 
Muse. Brit. E.) 
(Waved Feather-moss. E.) Woods, shady places, and moist rocks. 
On the top of Snowdon. (In Bingley Woods, Yorkshire, where it may 
be frequently observed in fruit. Hailstone in Whitaker’s Craven. E.) 
P. March—April. 
H. albicans. Shoot branched, ascending: fruit-stalks lateral: cap¬ 
sules oblong: lid conical, blunt: leaves oblong-spear- shaped, 
bristle-pointed. 
Dicks. H. S. — Hedw. Stirp. iv. 5—(E. Bot. 1300.— Muse. Brit. xxv. E.)— 
Vaill. 26. 9 — Dill. 42. 63. 
Shoots about two inches long, scattered, almost upright, but little branched, 
yellowish green mixed with white. Leaves spear-shaped, bristly at the 
end, every where surrounding the stem. Fruit-stalks lateral, half an 
inch upright, red; but rarely found. Capsules small, oval, oblique, 
rather nodding; yellow red. Lid short. Mouth fringed. Dicks. Scarcely 
upright, not crowded together, a little branched, shoots slender, yellowish 
pale green. Leaves slender, pressed to, soft, shining. Involucrum hairv. 
Dill. 
(Whitish Silky Feather-moss. E.) In loose sandy soil on heaths, and 
places thinly clothed with grass: but seldom with capsues. Dill. May. 
H. stria'tum. Branches crooked: leaves egg-shaped, scored, acute, 
expanding in every direction : lid pointed. 
Hedw. Stirp. iv. 13—(E. Bot. 1648— Muse. Brit. xxvi. E.)— Dill. 38. 30 
— Vaill. 27. 1— H. Ox. xv. 6, row 3. 8, p. 625. 
Slender, creeping, matted together, irregularly branched. Leaves small, 
triangular, pale green. Fruit-stalks half to three quarters of an inch in 
length. Capsules swollen, short, nodding. Involucrum slender, scales 
narrow, ending in hairs. Dill. {Leaves scored. Fruit-stalks often 
twisted, untwisting when moistened and turning the capsule from the 
right to the left. 
(Scored-leaved Feather-moss. E.) H. rutahulum y. Huds. and With. 
Ed. i. Woods and bushes, on the roots and trunks of trees. P. Jan. 
H. tri'quetrum. Branches bowed back: leaves egg-shaped, spread¬ 
ing: fruit-stalksaxillary. 
(E. Bot. 1622 —ilfw.se. Brit. xxvi. E.)— Dill. 38. 28— Vail. 28. 9— Buxh. 
iv. 63. 1. 
Branches unequal. Leaves triangular, pointed. Linn. Spreading to a foot 
in length, reddish, elastic, rising upwards. Often grows upright. 
Branches frequently bent to the ground, their extremities taking root. 
Leaves broad, triangular, not keeled, tender, pellucid, pale green, pointed. 
Involucrum rigid, oblong, composed of reflexed scales, sometimes two or 
