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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Hypnum. 
D. (2) Leaves bent back: capsules leaning. 
H. scorpioi'des. Branches waved, trailing, hooked: leaves pointing 
one way, tapering to a point. 
Dicks. II. S. — (E Bot. 1039— Muse. Brit, xxvii. E.)— Dill. 37. 25. 
Branches brown, hooked, and yellow at the ends. Linn. Shoots trailing, 
cylindrical, one to three inches long. Branches rising upwards, 
thick, bent and thicker at the ends, about one inch long. Leaves spear- 
shaped, often ending in hairs, wrinkled at the base. Fruit-stalks half 
an inch to one inch high. Capsules cylindrical, slender, leaning. Lid 
pointed. Mouth with a white fringe. Web. Barren plants longer and 
thicker than the fertile ones, colour dark red, the ends purple and gi'een. 
Fertile plants entirely green, except here and there a little purple. Dill. 
(One of the largest of British Mosses; with leaves generally nerveless; 
but, according to Schwaegrichen and Mr. Tozer in Muse. Brit., occa¬ 
sionally two nerved ; which shows how liable this, like most aquatic 
plants, is to vary. E.) 
(Scorpion Feather-moss. E.) Turfy bogs and marshes. Near Bishop’s 
Castle, Shropshire, and about Penter, near Bangor. Near Norwich, 
and in the north of England; and at Corriattackan in Strath Swandie in 
the Isle of Sky. Turf pits on Ellingham and Geldestone fens. Mr. Stone. 
On Snowdon and Cader Idris. Mr. Griffith. P. Nov.—April. 
H. squarro'sum. Branches straggling: leaves spear-shaped, acute, 
bent back in five different directions. 
(E. Bot. 1593— Muse. Brit, xxv i. E.)— FI. Dan. 535. 1— Dill. 39. 38— II. 
Ox. xv. 5, row 2. 2 — FI. Dan. 648. 3. 
Often six inches long, creeping, rib a.beautiful purple, shining through the 
interstices of the leaves. Leaves ending in a sharp point, as fine as a 
hair. Fruit-stalks one inch to one inch and a half high, straight, spring¬ 
ing from a cylindrical, scaly and hairy fence. Capsules egg-shaped, 
leaning. Lid blunt. Mouth wide open, fringe yellow. I have found 
capsules in July. Weis. Dill. Capsules rarely met with. Ray. Fruit- 
stalks solitary or in pairs. Lid not large enough to cover the mouth of 
the capsule, but joined to it by a kind of groove. Stackh. 
(Drooping-leaved Feather-moss. E.) Moist meadows, pastures and 
woods. P. Feb.—May. 
Var. 2. Smaller. Leaves triangular, open, reflexed. Dill. 
Vaill, 27. 5— Dill. 39. 39. 
Not much different from var. 1, except in the leaves being smaller, paler, 
closer set, and more bent back. Weis. The capsules too are smaller, and 
the lid sharper. Dill. 
Wet places. 
H. palus'tre. Shootscreeping: branches crowded, upright, on one 
side the shoot: leaves egg-shaped, pointing one way: capsules 
nearly upright. 
( E. Bot. 1655— Muse. Brit. xxvi. E.)— Dill. 37. 27. 
Branches upright, compressed, from half an inch to one inch high, nume¬ 
rous. Leaves in a double or triple series, sharp, hooked. Web. Shoots 
slender, creeping, with few leaves, and those shrivelled. Branches gene¬ 
rally simple, short. Leaves dull green, hooked at the end. Fruit-stalks 
