CRYPTOGAMIA, MITSCI. Hypnum, 
1073 
from the base of the branches, red, longer than the branches. Capsules 
oblong, a little inclining, brown when ripe. Lid larger in diameter than 
the capsule. Veil straight, pale. Dill. 
(Creeping Marsh Feather-moss. II. luridum. Hedw. Crypt. 38, and 
with this variable species Messrs. Hooker and Taylor also include H. jlu- 
viatile , E. Bot. 1303, (not Hedw.) and H. adnatum , E. Bot. 2406, (not 
Hedw.) neither of which are properly British, according to the above 
authorities. E.) In wet places, and banks of rivers, not uncommon. 
P. Jan.—April. 
H. lo'reum. Shoots creeping: branches waved, upright: leaves 
pointing one way : capsules roundish, egg-shaped. 
Dicks. H. $.—(E. Bot. 2072— Muse. Brit. xxvi. E.)— Dill. 39.40— Vaill. 
25. 2— H. Ox. xv. 5, row the last , 24, p. 626— Buxh. iv. 64. 1— Ger. 
1370. 1. 
Fruit-stalks from the base of the branches. Neck. Fruit-stalks more than 
an inch high, from the stem between the branches upright. Capsules egg- 
shaped, leaning. Shoots near a foot long or more, the rib rigid, brittle, 
surrounded by pale green leaves, those towards the end bent back. Dill. 
(Rambling Mountain Feather-moss. E.) On mountains, in woods 
and heaths, in various parts of Britain. P. April. 
H. adun'cum. Shoots nearly upright, somewhat branched: leaves 
pointing one way, spear-awl-shaped, curled: branches hooked. 
(j E. Bot. E.)—Hedw. iv. 24— Dill. 37. 26. 
Resembles the H. cupressiforme , but the shoots are more straight, less 
branched ; leaves longer, hooked, their ends pointing one way ,• fruit- 
stalks twice as long, rising as well from the middle of the shoot as from 
the bosom of the branches. The shoots are remarkably rigid. Fruit- 
stalks two inches long, rising out of a slender, short, scaly involucrum. 
Capsules egg-shaped, distended, leaning. Lid conical, short, blunt. Weis. 
Plant yellowish or tawny when growing out of the water. Ray. Invo¬ 
lucrum oblong, slender, scaly. Veil straight. Lower leaves less hooked 
than the upper ones. Dill. 
(Upright Hooked Feather-moss. E.) Marshy and watery places, bogs, 
and wet pastures. Turf pits on Ellingham and Geldestone fens. Mr. 
Stone. P. April—Aug. 
H. cupressifor'me. (Leaves closely imbricated, more or less falcato- 
secund, lanceolate, acuminated, entire except at the points, which 
are usually serrated, very faintly two-nerved at the base: cap¬ 
sule cylindrical, erecto-cernuous : lid conical, with a point. 
Hedw. Stirp. iv. 23— E. Bot. 1860— Muse. Brit, xxvii.— FI. Dan. 535— Dill. 
37. 23 and 41. 53. 
So sportive is this plant that it is scarcely possible to define in a few words 
the marks belonging to any of the varieties, y at first sight is totally 
unlike the more usual state of H. cupressiforme ; but we have seen the 
one run completely into the other. (3 is now universally acknowledged 
to belong to our plant ; and we are equally satisfied of Dickson's nigro - 
viricle being no other. 
a. vulgare. Stems broad, semi-cylindrical ; leaves falcato-secund. 
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