CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Hypnum. 
1075 
or five inches high, covered with whitish pointed scales. Leaves serrated. 
Fruit-stalks shorter than the branches, bent. Capsules egg-shaped. Lid 
beak bent. Leers. Stems light red, rising from a trailing root. Leaves 
broad at the base, tapering to a point, alternate. Involucrum scales 
ending in hairs, compact. Dill. 
(Pox-tail Feather-moss. E.) Moist woods and shady places at the 
roots of trees, and by the sides of rivers. A. March—April. 
F. (1) Shoots nearly cylindrical: capsules upright. 
H. gxia'cilk. Shoots creeping: branches cylindrical, nearly upright: 
capsules egg-shaped. 
Hedw. Stirp. iv. 6— {E. Bot. 108 5—Muse. Brit. xiv. E.)— Dili. 41. 55— 
FI. Dan. 649. 2. 
Liangs suspended from the bark of trees in numerous cylindrical-pointed 
branches bending upwards, and somewhat resembling the claw of a bird. 
Fruit-stalks from the base of the branches, half an inch high. Capsules 
upright, pointed, ochrey colour when ripe. Dill. 
(Slender Feather-moss. II. gracile. Linn. H. ornithopoides. Huds. 
Pterog'onium gracile. Sw. Sm. Hook. Pterigynandrum rracilc. Hedw. 
Trunks of trees and rocks. On beech trees in Enfield Chase. On 
the masses of stone called Grey Wethers, in Wiltshire. Forms great 
patches on rocks or trees, in subalpine'countries frequent, but the fructi¬ 
fication has rarely been observed in Britain, though common in France 
and Italy. P. Feb.—April. 
H. attenua'tum. Shoots branched: branches bowed in, sometimes 
tapering, sometimes thickening: leaves egg-shaped, pointing one 
way: capsules upright, tooth fringed. Dicks, ii. 13. 
Hedw. Stirp. i. 12—( E. Bot. 2420. E.)— Dill. 42. 66. 
Fruit-stalks upright, lateral. Veil slender, twisting. Capsules cylindrical. 
Beak blunt. Fringe double, outer row of teeth sixteen. Hedw. Bather 
thick, much branched, yellow green, tawny when dry. In large patches 
on the trunks of beeches, particularly on the northern side. Dill. 
(Attenuated Feather-moss. With this species Hooker and Taylor 
assimilate II. atro-virens. Dicks. Sm. and II.Jilamentosum , of the same 
authors. E.) Woods, on trunks of trees, Scotland. 
H. stramin'eum. Shoots upright, thread-shaped, somewhat branched: 
leaves egg-spear-shaped, without a mid-rib, tiled. Dicks. 5. 
Dicks. II. S. and Fasc. i. 9 —(E . Bot. 2405— Muse. Brit. xxiv. E.) 
Shoots nearly upright, strap-shaped, slender, when dry very brittle, two 
inches and more in length, straw-coloured, sometimes simple, or with 
one or two branches. Leaves convex and concave, glittering, pressed to. 
Fruit-stalks lateral, upright, red, one and sometimes two inches long, 
solitary or two together. Capsules egg-shaped, upright, bulging on one 
side. Lid short, somewhat pointed. Dicks. 
(Straw-like Feather-moss. E.) In a marshy place on the west side of 
Hampstead Heath, near London. (Near Yarmouth. Mr. Turner. 
Abundant on Breadalbane mountains. Mr. Drummond. Muse. Brit. E.) 
(Nearly allied to the preceding, and by some Botanists considered a variety 
of that species, is H. trifarium. Grev. Scot. Crypt. 2T9. therein charac- 
