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314. (23) B. & S, St. ½-1in. cæspitose, branched; l. green oval-lanceolate, tapering at both ends, margin reflexed below, excurrent nerve toothed; caps. clavate unequal pendulous, tapering into the long curved seta; mouth oblique; lid convex pointed.

Wet places near streams.

315. (24) Schw. St. 1-2in. branched, cæspitose, with purplish radicles below; l. ovate-lanceolate, margin reflexed, generally serrate at apex; upper with nerve scarcely excurrent, lower reddish; caps. pyriform, pendulous, tapering, contracted at mouth when dry; lid conical pointed; inner perist. with cilia.

Rocks and walls.

var. β. boreale. caps. smaller, sub-erect.

γ. contextum. st. long, much branched; caps. ventricose, shorter, sub-pendulous.

δ. subrotundum. stem and l. smaller; caps. almost globose; seta curved.

316. (25) B. & S. St. cæspitose, much branched; l. erecto-patent, ovate acuminate or oblong-lanceolate, elongated, very concave, margins plane, nerve thick excurrent into a mucro; wings at base with hyaline cells; per. l. narrower; caps. slightly incurved, pendulous solid sanguineous; lid shortly conical. [Müller, Syn. I., 280.]

Teesdale (Spruce); Scotland (Mitten).

317. (26) Hedw. St. ½-1½in; tufted, branched, very radiculose; l. ovate acuminate concave, nerve much excurrent, sometimes serrulate at apex, margins