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var. β. borealis. "st. not tomentous; l. auriculate and serrate at base, more concave and more suddenly attenuated, with longer points; faintly two-nerved at base only." Wils. N. Uist, Hebrides, 1851.

74. ANTITRICHIA.

408. Brid. St. 3-8in. straggling, pinnately branched; l. ovate, concave, sharply curved to a roughly toothed point, which ends in a double hook in the younger ones, nerved half way, margins recurved; caps. roundish elliptical drooping; lid with an oblique beak.

Rocks and trees.

75. LEPTODON.

409. Brid. St. 1-3in. creeping, branches pinnate or bi-pinnate; l. ovate, rounded and obtuse at apex, entire, margin recurved below, nerved more than half way; per. l. erect ovate subulate; caps. elliptical horizontal on a short curved seta; lid with an oblique beak.

Trees. Devon, &c.

76. ANOMODON. H. & T.

410. H. & T. St. 1-2in. from a creeping rhizome rigid; l. more or less secund or spreading from an ovate base lingulate or subulate, obtuse, entire, nerve pellucid, almost reaching apex; caps. almost cylindrical erect, on a yellowish seta; lid large conical rostrate.

Shady limestone rocks, trees.

411. Hueb. (Hypnum, Schreb. leskea, Hedwig.) St. 1-2in. procumbent with incurved branches;