"woolly fringe moss" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1861, Margaret Plues, Rambles in Search of Mosses, page 21",
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          "text": "The typical haunts are the windswept summit plateaux or broad ridges and upper spurs of the higher hills, where short montane grassland, woolly fringe moss carpets, lichen heath, or open stony fell-fields cover most of the ground.",
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          "ref": "2012, Adam Watson, Human Impacts on the Northern Cairngorms, page 12",
          "text": "Flat ground at the top of Allt Creag an Leth-choin carries prostrate vegetation dominated by woolly fringe moss with some crowberry.",
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