1080 CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Hypnum. 
thready brown roots. Branches numerous, cylindrical, tapering at each 
end. Leaves crowded, egg-shaped, pointed, smooth, shining, pressed to 
when dry, rather standing out when fresh. Involucrum slender; scales 
straight, longer than the leaves. Fruit-stalks reddish, half or three quar¬ 
ters of an inch long. Capsules cylindrical, upright, tawny when ripe. 
Dill. 
(Mouse-tail Feather-moss. H . myosuroides. Hedw. Roth. H.myosur - 
aides (3. Huds. and With. Ed. ii. H. curvatum. Sw. Dicks. Turn. Sm. 
Hook. H. myurum. JBrid. E.) Roots of trees, and on large stones in 
woods. Jan—March. 
G (2) Shoots crowded : capsides leaning. 
H. myosuroi'des. Plant creeping, very much branched ; branches cy¬ 
lindrical : leaves egg-spear-shaped, hair-pointed, upright, tiled : 
capsules cylindrical. 
Dill 41. 51— (E. Bot. 1567— Muse. Brit. xxv. E.)—-77. Ox. xv. 6, row 3. 3 
— Vaill. 27. 6. 
Pale green. Stem-leaves almost three-cornered. Dill. 
(This can only be confounded with the preceding species, (H. curvatum. 
Muse. Brit., 77. myosuron, With.), but its more slender habit, its leaves 
more acuminated, less concave, with their shorter nerve, reflexed margins, 
serrated nearly their whole length, will ever keep it distinct. Muse. Brit. E.) 
(Creeping Mouse-tail Feather-moss. H. myosuriodes, Linn, (not of 
Hedw. Fid. Muse. Brit. E.) Woods at the roots of trees, and on stones 
and rocks. P. Jan.—March. 
Var. 2. Leaves dark green, shining, hair-pointed. 
Dill. 41. 53. 
Leaves soft, dark green, shining, ending in hairs, which appear grey and 
reflexed when the plant is dry. Dill. 
On old walls, as of Westham Abbey, near Stratford, Essex ; and on rocks 
onEmott pastures, Yorkshire. Dill. 
H. ser'pens. Shoots creeping : branches thread shaped : leaves like 
bristles ; capsules cylindrical, crooked : lid taper-pointed. 
{E. Bot. 1037-— Muse. Brit. xxiv. E.)— Dill. 42. 64 — Vaill. 28. 2. 6. 7. 8— 
77. Ox. xv. 5, row the last , 21, p. 625— Buxb. iv. 63. 2. 
Shoots on the ground six inches, on trees two inches long. Neck. Shoots 
abounding with thick set-slender fibres forming broad patches, closely 
adhering to the earth. Branches very slender. Fruit-stalks numerous, 
upright. Capsules cylindrical, leaning. Lid pointed. Mouth fringed. 
Weis. Branches numerous, short, generally simple. Leaves too small to be 
distinctly seen by the naked eye ; green, not shining. Involucrum small, 
hairy. Fruit-stalks an inch high, or more, fine purple. Capsules long, 
straightish. Veil upright, broad at the base, silvery, shining. Dill. 
(Different leaves on the same individual have the nerve varying much in 
length ; yet in the older stems it will generally be found reaching to the 
point, and of a dark brown colour. Muse. Brit. E.) 
(Creeping White-veiled Feather-moss. In Muse. Brit, we find 
H. subtile , Dicks., E. Bot. 2496, considered identical with this plant. E.) 
