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Dontanus, Don’s Bristle-Moss, having bristle-like leaves very 
minutely toothed ; capsules cup-shaped with a wide mouth. 
Of the Dicranace in fruit this month may be mentioned Dicranum 
longtfolium, found only on Ben Lawers and adjacent peaks ; leaves 
long, falcate, secund, with a slender nerve, margin and back serrate 
at apex. 
Equally rare on turfy bogs in Lancashire and Yorkshire is 
Dicranum Schraderi, with leaves sub-secund and rather obtuse, 
toothed on margin and keel; sub-papillose at back near apex ; 
capsules oval-oblong incurved ; lid rostrate. 

Fig. 16. 
Pretty generally distributed throughout Great Britain, on marshy 
places and moist banks, is Dicranum palustre, the marsh Dicranum. 
The stems are three to four inches in length, branched, and almost 
all reaching to the same height ; the leaves are sub-secund, linear- 
lanceolate and undulate ; nerve narrow, not reaching to apex, which 
is serrate ; capsules sub-erect, slightly curved, and striate. Var. 
B juniperifolium, has shorter, wider, and more rigid leaves, while 
y polycladium has small imbricated leaves. . 
Growing on shady mountainous rocks at Greenfield, and generally 
throughout Britain, although not recorded for Lancashire, Cheshire, 


