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72. ANÆCTANGIUM. B. & S.

404. Schw. St. 1-4in. densely tufted, slender; l. short, lanceolate spreading from an erect base, acuminate, slightly serrulate near the base only, nerved to or beyond apex; caps. oval-oblong erect; lid long convex, with a slender oblique beak.

Crevices of moist alpine rocks. Autumn.

405. Hoppe. "St. elongate cæspitose; l. linear-subulate from a dilated base, channelled, entire; caps. roundish pyriform: lid rostrate." Wils. "L. upper part of dilated base is always more or less distinctly crenate or serrulate, from thence to the apex entire." W. Mitten, Jour. of Bot., vol., p. 329. [Mr. Mitten refers Dr. Taylor's plant from Ireland to Tortula Hibernica, by which name it is described under that genus.]

73. LEUCODON.

406. Schw. St. or branches 1in. from a creeping rhizome; l. imbricate, ovate, entire, tapering to a point, plicate, somewhat secund; per. l. longer, all nerveless; caps. long elliptical erect; lid conical beaked.

Trees, walls, rocks, &c.

407. Hook. St. ½-1in., tomentous; l. ovate, suddenly contracted to a piliferous point, concave, serrulate near apex, nerved half-way; caps. cylindrical; lid with a short curved beak.

Trees and rocks.