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 recurved; caps. almost cylindrical, gibbous, inclined, furrowed; lid short, conical; pseudopodia numerous; barren fl. gemmiform.

Dry shady woods and banks.

48. ORTHODONTIUM.

290. Schw. St. ½in. slender, tufted; l. long linear setaceous, carinate, flexuose, entire, faintly nerved nearly to apex; caps. obovate-clavate, gradually tapering at base into the seta, inclined; lid long, beaked; calyp. very small.

Sandstone rocks. Yorkshire and Cheshire.

49. LEPTOBRYUM.

291. Wils. St. scarcely ½in.; l. lower lanceolate entire, upper linear-setaceous, flexuose, serrate at summit, nerve sometimes reaching apex; caps. pyriform pendulous, on a slender flexuose seta; lid convex mammillate.

Rocks. Cheshire.

50. BRYUM. H. & T.

Synopsis specierum.

I. L. erect narrow; not nerved to apex (except No. 1).

A. Caps. narrow, inclined. a. monoicous. 1. acuminatum. 2. polymorphum. 3. elongatum. b. synoicous or dioicous. 4. crudum.