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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Hypnum. 
its peculiar sleek habit, by its freedom from dirt, and its long, cylindrical 
winged scaly shoots. A span long in wet, but shorter in dryer places. 
Fruit-stalks one to two inches high, from the mid-rib of the shoots and 
branches ; upright shining. Involucrum oblong, scaly. Capsules cylin¬ 
drical, leaning. Lid beaked. Mouth fringed. Weis. Stems nearly cy- 
drical, upright or reclining ; often branched. Branches winged. Leaves 
blunt, thin, soft, smooth, rather shining, when dry crumpled. Dill. 
(Spotless Silky Feather-moss. E.) Pastures, meadows, banks, and 
woods. P. Nov.* 
(Var. Shorter; less regularly pinnate. E. Bot. 2189. H. illecehrum. 
With. Ed. 7. Sm. ; but not of Hedwig, his species (having leaves 
with more acuminated and serrated points, and with a longer and more 
decided nerve), being American, and not British, unless recently disco¬ 
vered in Scotland, as reported by Mr. Arnott. Hook. E.) 
(H. schre'beri. Leaves closely imbricated, nearly erect, elliptical, 
apiculate, concave, entire, faintly two-nerved at the base : capsule 
ovate, cernuous : lid conical. E.) 
{E. Bot. 1621— Muse. Brit. xxiv. E.)— Dill. 40. 47— Vaill. 29. 10— Neck. 
Meth. 1. 10— Buxb. iv. 64. J, the right hand of the upper figures j and 3. 
Longer and more slender than the preceding, branches and leaves more 
pointed, more shining when dry, more thinly set, and exposing more dis¬ 
tinctly the red mid-rib. Dill. 
(Schreberian Feather-moss. H. purum. Ehrh. Var. 2. With, to Ed. 
7. H. Schreberi. Dicks. Sm. Willd. Hook. II. muticum. Dill. Sw. 
Woods and banks, among bushes. E.) 
H. curtipen dulum. Shoots upright, branched, leafy : leaves oblong- 
egg-sliaped, acute, tiled: capsules egg-shaped: lid tapering to a 
point. 
Dicks. II. S. —( E . Bot. 1444 --Muse. Brit. xxii. E.)-—ZhVZ. 43. 69. 
From two to four inches or more in length. Wide spreading, much 
branched, rigid. Leaves ending in a sharp hair-like point, closely tiled, 
broader and more dense at the ends of the shoots, so as to give them a 
blunt club-like appearance. Fruit-stalks hardly half an inch long, 
mostly two together, upright. Capsules cylindrical at first, and upright; 
when ripe egg-shaped and pendent. Lid short, beaked. Involucrum 
rising nearly up a third of the fruit-stalk. Weis. .Recumbent, matted 
together. Shoots thick, rigid, irregularly branched. Leaves green, nu¬ 
merous. Involucrum long, pointed. Capsules yellowish. Dill. 
(Pendulous Feather-moss. Neckera curtipendula. Hedw. Turn. Sm. 
Anomodon curtipendulum. Hook. Purt. Muse. Brit. E.) On the trunks 
of beeches, in woods. On stumps in Enfield Forest, near Southgate, and 
in Yorkshire. On large stones on the Marlborough Downs, Wiltshire ; and 
on the rocks of Snowdon. Dillenius. (Mr. Tozer remarks (in Muse. Brit.) 
“ In Wistman’s wood, near Two Bridges on Dartmoor, it gives to the 
oaks a very singular appearance. Stunted branches, not larger than the 
wrist, often appear as large as the human body, from the very luxuriant 
* Tliis fine Moss being easily attainable, and free from impurities, whence the trivial 
name, fishermen make use of it to scour their worms. 
