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 furrowed when dry; mouth very small, with a smooth border; inner perist. very imperfect.

Damp stony places.

Maresfield, Sussex, 1864 (Mr. Mitten).

58. ENTOSTHODON.

360. Schw. St. about ¼-in.; l. lower distant ovate-acuminate, upper in a rosaceous tuft, obovate, acuminate, not nerved to apex, scarcely serrulate; caps. clavate-pyriform, upright, neck tapering, lid plano-convex.

Crevices of rocks and shady places. E. S. I. W.

361. Hunt. (Mem. Lit. and Sci. Soc., Manchester, vol., p. 100, 1871-2.) St. 1/8¼in. erect, gregarious; l. lower obovate, margin reflexed, nerve thin, not reaching apex; upper oblong, sub-erect, sub-canaliculate, margin recurved, crenulate above, nerve strong, nearly reaching apex; areolæ large elongate hexaganal below, above shorter; caps. obconical when dry, smooth, with a distinct neck and wide mouth; seta erect, 1/8-¼in.; perist. half immersed, of 16 slender linear subulate teeth; dioicous.

Sandstone walls. Glasnevin, Dublin (D. Orr.)

59. PHYSCOMITRIUM.

362. De Not. St. ¼-in.; l. lower, distant, small, upper in a tuft, larger, obovate-lanceolate, with a thickened distantly serrate margin, not nerved to apex; caps. small, pyriform, erect, lid almost flat.

Heaths, banks, stream sides, &c.

363. B. & S. St. about ½-in. tufted;