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γ. serratum. stems taller; l. recurved from a sheathing base, coarsely serrated.

δ. compactum. st. shorter and slender; l. shorter lanceolate from an ovate base, entire, or very slightly toothed at apex; caps. gibbous on a shorter pedicel.

ε. gracilescens. l. narrower; caps. smaller.

L. squarrose, or patent spreading.

73. Hedw. St. 1-2in. loosely tufted; l. distant, lanceolate, margins undulate, denticulate, papillose obtuse; caps. shortly ovate; lid conical rostrate; dioicous.

Wet stones in streams.

var. β. fagimontanum. st. short, branches slender, l. shorter.

γ. serratum. l. crenato-serrate, with a more acute point; caps. oval or oblong, lid with a slender beak.

74. Hedw. St. 1/4in. gregarious, l. subulate from a broadish sheathing base setaceous above, long, spreading flexuose, minutely dentate, nerved to apex; caps. almost erect, oval or obovate, striate; lid with a long oblique subulate beak: monoicous.

Moist sandy banks, not common.

75. B. & S. L. with a broad sheathing base, suddenly lanceolate-subulate prolonged, wide-spreading and wavy, entire, nerve broad; caps. ovate, sub-striate, strumose; lid with a beak longer than capsule: monoicous.