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δ. filiforme. br. prostrate, filiform, slender; l. falcate, serrulate; caps. short; lid with a shorter point. Rocks. Killarney, &c.

ε. lacunosum. more robust; br. thickened; l. larger sub-coriaceous, yellowish brown.

ζ. longisetum. slender, l. pale, serrulate; seta elongate, caps. short ovate.

θ. mammillatum. caps. with a short conical or mammillate lid.

519. Wils. St. creeping, sub-pinnate; l. erecto-patent, secund, pointing upwards, ovate-lanceolate, tapering to a point, entire, nerveless; caps. oblong erect, almost symmetrical; lid with an oblique beak.

Walls, rocks, trees, &c.

520. Mitt. Jour, of Bot. I., p. 123. (H. pratense, Bry. Brit. 399.) "St. sparingly branched in an irregular manner, without any appearance of becoming pinnate; l. loosely compressed ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, but with a broad point, margins entire, nerveless; cells at angles enlarged and pale; caps., according to Lindberg, is on a rather thick seta 1in. long, turgid ovate, when dry plicate."

"Damp sandy ground among thin grass, not in bogs. The fr. has been gathered once by Dr. Klingraff in June, in W. Prussia."