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 nerve scarcely excurrent; caps. inclined, ovate or oblong, slightly tumid; lid shortly beaked; seta twisted to the right.

Moist banks.

var, β. tenuifolium. l. narrow, obscurely nerved.

γ. tenellum. st. slender, scarcely branched; l. falcato-secund, distantly denticulate.

δ. callistomum. l. scarcely secund, caps. erect, obovate truncated, lid almost as long as caps.

80. " Wils. MS. Closely resembles the last. L. more distant, with impressed wings and less elongated setaceous points, and a more dilated flattened nerve, uppermost sub-secund. Caps. nearly symmetric erect or sub-cernuous, with a shorter conical lid: dioicous." [Dr. Braithwaite, Jour. Bot.,, 227.]

Banks.

Anglesea (Wilson); Cotterall Wood (Hunt); Park Gate, Cheshire (Miss Jelly).

81. Turn. St. short bright red, scarcely branched; l. linear-lanceolate, obscurely toothed, reddish, margins plane, secund, pellucid; caps. erect ovate or obovate, slightly tumid, with a conical beaked lid. Seta twisted to the left; dioicous.

Moist sandy banks.

82. Hedw. St. 1/2-1in. l. falcato-secund, setaceous from an oblong lanceolate base, entire; caps. ovate gibbous oblique striate when dry, seta red; dioicous.

Moist shady sandy banks; common on the mortar of walls, &c.