CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Hypnum. 
1067 
three together. Fruit-stalks seldom more than an inch high. Capsules 
uprigh, thin; when ripe thicker, leaning, crooked. Dill. 
(Great Triangular Feather-moss. E.) Woods about the roots of 
trees, and in dry barren pastures. P. Sept.—Jan.* 
H. flu'itans. Shoots branched : capsules oblong: lids conical: leaves 
egg-spear-shaped, distant, expanding. 
yE. Bot. 1448—ilfWc. Brit. xxiv. E.)— Bill. 38. 33 —Vaill. 33. 6. 
Fruit-stalks fine red, in some plants very long, in others scarcely an inch 
long. Capsules red, hooked, very short, fringed at the mouth. Linn. 
Much branched, slender, a foot long or more, either upright or floating. 
Leaves narrow, alternate, those on the stem fewer and broader than those 
on the branches, soft, pellucid, yellow green. Capsules not hitherto 
found. Dill. 
(Floating Feather-moss. E.) Stagnant waters. (Marshy places 
(sometimes in streams; rarely fructifying but in places that are only 
occasionally inundated. Muse. Brit. E.) 
H. rutab'ulum. Branches irregular, ascending: leaves tiled, egg- 
shaped, acute, sharp-pointed: lids conical. 
Hedw. Stirp. iv. 12—( Muse. Brit. xxvi. E.) — Buxb. iv. 62. 2— FI. Dan. 
824. 2— H. Ox. xv. 6, row 5. 18— Vaill. 27. 8— Dill. 38. 29, capsules the 
best , but the shoots, as Haller remarks , are too round — H. Ox. v. 6. 35. 
Leaves pellucid. Mouth fringed. Weis. Leaves triangular, green, shining 
when dry, not keeled. Capsule dark brown, shining. Dill. 
(Common Rough-stalked Feather-moss. E.) Grows much crowded, 
in patches, and full of fructifications. Woods and hedges, on the roots 
and trunks ol trees and shrubs: on the ground in barren places. 
F. Sept.—Jan. 
Var. 2. Upright, short. Leaves slender. 
Marshy places. Dill, in R. Syn. p. 83. n. 18. 
(The authors of Muse. Brit, include under this species both H. crenulatum. 
E. Bot. 1261; and H. brevirostre. E. Bot. 1647. (not of Ehrh.) E.) 
C. (1) Shoots winged with branches : capsules upright. 
fL Smith'ii. Leaves nearly circular, somewhat concave : capsules egg- 
cylindrical: veil hairy upwards. Dicks, ii. 10. 
( E. Bot. 1326-— Muse. Brit. xiv. E.)— Dicks. 5. 4. 
Deep green. Shoots hard, woody, pointed : in the middle, or towards the 
end, bowed in. Branches , if pressed down, recovering their former direc¬ 
tion, on the pressure being removed. Wings strap-shaped, bowed in and 
curled at the ends. Leaves tiled, open, pressed to at the base. Involu- 
crum cylindrical, the leaves egg-spear-shaped, ending in hairs. Fruit- 
stalks numerous, solitary, very short. Capsules upright, egg-shaped, 
nearly cylindrical, reddish brown, shining. Fringe obscurely toothed. 
Lid roundish, with a beak a little oblique. Veil slanting. Dicks. 
* (Used to pack glass and earthenware: for which purpose several other of the larger 
spee'es might answer equally well. E.) 
