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F. crassipes. Stems 4%—%-inch, plants more robust ; leaves 
larger, broader ; capsules obovate-roundish on a short seta; erect. 
Oxford (Boswell) Tynygroes (Holt, Wild.) 
F. viridulus. The green Flat Fork Moss ; plants very small ; 
simple ; leaves lanceolate, bordered, entire, acute ; nerved to apex; 
capsule erect, oval-oblong ; lid conico-acuminate. Banks and 
rocks. Barmouth (Rogers.) 
Pleurocarpous Mosses. On trees, walls, rocks, &c., but not 
common in fruit is Zeucodon sciuroides, the squirrel-tail Leucodon. 
Patterdale (Cash) ; also common in the same localities, /sothectum 
myurum, the blunt-leaved Frond Moss. Bowness (Atkinson. ) 
A handsome Moss, not common in fruit, is Climacium dendrotdes, 
the Marsh Tree Moss. Stems 2 or 3 inches high, much branched 
at the summit ; branches nearly an inch long ; leaves ovate-lanceo- 
late ; spreading, serrulate at the apex ; capsule oval-oblong. In 
boggy or marshy places. Knutsford (Whitehead), Stirrup Wood 
(Cunliffe.) 
A peculiar Moss, with foetid odour when moist, is Cy/indrothectum 
concinnum or Montagnei, the Cylinder Moss. The capsule is erect, 
cylindrical, on a long seta, and with a blunt lid; but the fruit is 
not found in Britain. Hills, chiefly limestone. Wetherby (West- 
ley, Wild.) 
Of the Hypnums Brachythecium plumosum, the rusty Feather 
Moss is common on sub-Alpine shady rocks, stones in rivulets, 
walls, &c. Stems creeping, sub-pinnate, leaves ovate ; concave, 
acuminate, serrulate near apex, nerved above half way; capsule 
small roundish-ovate cernuous; seta roughish ; lid conical acute. 
Monoicous ; found on Heaton Park wall (Bastow). Frequent on 
walls, rocks, trees, &c., is Rhyachostegium confertum, the clustered 
Feather Moss; also on Heaton Park wall (Wild), and walls chiefly 
limestone is RAynchostegium murale, the Wall Feather Moss. 
In similar situations to the last two is Zypnum resupinatum, the 
upward-turned Feather Moss. Its leaves which point upwards 
are secund, ovate-lanceolate, tapering to a point, entire nerveless ; 
capsule oblong, erect; lid with a long beak. Millers Dale 
(Whitehead, Stanley.) 
Two very common Mosses on shady banks are H. Schreberi and 
H. purum; the neat meadow Feather Moss, while Ay/ocomium 
brevirostrum, the short-beaked Feather Moss is not recorded for 
Derbyshire in the London Catalogue. Found in Millers Dale 
(Whitehead, Nield, Stanley.) 

WILLIAM STANLEY. 


