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 *late, apiculate, serrate above, margin recurved, nerved nearly to apex; caps. clavate-oblong or obovate pendulous; lid mammillate.

Sandy shady banks.

51. MNIUM. B. & S.

A. L. sharply serrated.

a. Margin cartilaginous.

338. Bland. St. 1-3in. simple, erect, radiculose; barren shoots procumbent; l. lower oval-lanceolate, decurrent, scattered, upper much larger, crowded, oblong-elliptic pointed, border narrow, simply spinuloso-serrate, nerved nearly or quite to apex; those of barren stems roundish two-ranked; caps. ovate-oblong pendulous; lid convex, pointed: dioicous.

Shady woods, banks, walls.

var. β. elatum. stem and seta longer; marshy places.

γ. rugicum. sterile shoots, erect, shorter; l. shorter, concave, obtusely serrate.

339. Hedw. St. ½-1in. tufted, erect, radiculose, barren shoots procumbent; l. lower ovate or obovate, scattered, upper ovate-lanceolate longer and narrower; all acuminate, with simply serrate margins; nerved nearly or quite to apex; caps. ovate, inclined or pendulous; lid convex obtuse: synoicous.

Shady rocks and walls.

340. Schr. St. ½-1in. decumbent at base (barren long erect or creeping); l. lower ovate, upper