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 469. Sm. St. slender, creeping; br. erect; l. sub-complanate, narrowly lanceolate, rigid, slightly serrulate near apex, broadly nerved nearly to apex; caps. ovate cernuous, on a rough seta; lid almost as large as caps., beaked.

Moist shady rocks near waterfalls.

c. Depressæ. Pl. low cæspitose soft; l. broadly oblong, thinly nerved; seta smooth.


 * Dioicous.

470. Bruch. St. prostrate pinnate; br. thickest in middle—both very short; l. complanate crowded ovate-oblong, slightly concave and finely serrulate, shortly two-nerved; caps. ovate, curved, cernuous; lid as long as caps. and long beaked.

Rocks and stones, especially limestone. Spring.

Caergwrle, N. Wales, Oct., 1871, in fruit (C. L. Higgins.)


 * * Monoicous.

471. Dicks. St. creeping sub-pinnate; br. erect; l. slightly secund or complanate, ovate acuminate concave serrulate, thinly nerved quite or more than half way; caps. ovate-oblong cernuous; lid short, with a very long curved beak.

Rocks, walls, trees, &c., frequent.

472. Bland. Much larger than the last, and remotely branched; st. l. remote, br. l. crowded; lower oblong lanceolate, the others more or less sharply acuminate from a broad ovate base, slightly serrulate, nerved more than half way; caps. oblong