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 b. Leaves squarrose.

21. Pers. St. 4-12in. rigid, often forked, with long deflexed attenuated branches; l. ovate-acuminate acute, recurved; caps. large on a longish pedicel.

Bogs.

3. ARCHIDIUM.

22. Brid. St. 1/4in., second year branched sometimes 1in.; fertile branches short, barren ones longer, slender, and with more distant leaves; l. lanceolate pointed, upper ones longest, entire, nerved nearly to or beyond apex; p.l. ovate-lanceolate, toothed near the apex, nerve excurrent.

Moist clayey or chalky banks, &c.

4. PHASCUM.

Almost stemless, capsule immersed, barren fl. gemmiform at base of, or near to, fertile fl.

a. Growing from a conferva-like thallus, columella fugacious.

23. Schreb. "Stemless, leaves lanceolate, nerveless (?) serrated, connivent; capsule large roundish-ovate, sub-sessile." (Wils.)

Sandy banks or fallows. Spring or Autumn.

var. β. angustifolium. "Leaves narrower, linear-lanceolate, obscurely toothed; caps. smaller."

24. P. cohærens. Hed. Stemless, very minute; l. ovate-lanceolate, keeled, erect, nerved to apex, and serrated about half-way from summit; capsule immersed sub-sessile.

On the ground. Winter.