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erect or inclined, calyptra very hairy, peristome as above; leaves rigid, densely lammellated, nerve thick and broad.

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[dagger] [dagger] Caps. angular; teeth 64, rarely 32.

Polytrichum (46). Caps. with a discoid apophysis, erect, when ripe horizontal; teeth 64 (in some species 32). Calyptra very hairy; leaves as in last. 102.


III. Peristome double.

a. Caps. plano-convex.

Buxbaumia (40). Caps. very large, apophysate, oblique; outer teeth irregular reddish, opaque, inner a pale conical plicate membrane, calyptra small, only covering the conical obtuse lid, fugacious, entire or laterally cleft. 99.

b. Caps. cylindrical.

Encalypta (partly) (29). vide ante p. 2.

c. Caps. oblong.

Orthotrichum (chiefly) (36). vide ante p. 5.

d. Caps. obovate, unequal, mouth oblique.

Funaria (57). Caps. obliquely pyriform ventricose, sub-erect or cernuous; outer perist. 16, obliquely lanceolate, teeth trabeculate, longitudinally striate, and connected at