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 on a long seta, geniculate at base. [Schp. Syn., 380. Bry. Eur.,, t. 372.]

Boggy places.

Ben More; Shetland (McKinlay).

311. (20) Voigt. St. tufted, decumbent when old, elongate, branched; l. patulous, remote, broadly ovate-lanceolate, decurrent, cirrhate when dry, scarcely nerved to apex; per. l. inner lanceolate erect; caps. obovate-oblong regular pendulous from a long slender seta, contracted at mouth when dry; lid mammillate. [Bry. Eur.,, t. 371.]

Boggy places.

Glen Lyon, Ben Lawers, Hartfell, Helvellyn.

312. (21) Swartz. St. ¼-1in. branched; l. reddish, remote patulous ovate-lanceolate, slightly decurrent, keeled, serrulate at apex, margins thickened and recurved, nerve almost excurrent; caps. oblong pyriform, with a long tapering neck, pendulous, mouth small, but not contracted; lid small convex, pointed.

Near springs and ditches.

var. β. microstomum. "caps, regular, sub-clavate, mouth smaller."

313. (22) Wils. MS. St. about 1in. branched, slender, red, and copiously beset with reddish-brown radicles from base to summit; l. sub-erect, ovate, rather suddenly tapering into a longish sparsely toothed subula, uppermost broader, more shortly pointed, spreading, all concave, strongly nerved, margins plane, not recurved; areolæ very lax and transparent. The only specimen I have bears no fruit.

Ben Ledi (Dr. Stirton).