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 fuscous, above rectangular, in 14-16 longitudinal rows, thickened and quadrate towards apex.

Peaty soil, Cheviots (barren), Boyd and Hardy, 1868.

110. Wils. Tufts lax soft, bright or yellowish green above, blackish below, without radicles. St. 5-10in. slender, erect, geniculate. L. distant erecto-patent or sub-secund, glossy, from a lanceolate base gradually running into a very long subula, sometimes half twisted; uppermost with wings serrate. Nerve half width of base; auricles very large and inflated, the cells partly fuscous, partly hyaline, hexagonal, above hexagono-rectangular, upper rhombic chlorophyllose; fl. of each sex collected in capitula; males 3-4, fem. numerous.

Wet places, and clefts of rocks. I. S.

111. Schpr. Tufts dense soft yellowish green, brownish below, without radicles. St. 2-3in. slender; l. erecto-patent, straight or slightly secund, lowest lanceolate, upper lanceolate-subulate, entire at apex, base somewhat sheathing, auricles hyaline inflated decurrent. Nerve two-thirds of base, finely sulcate at back towards apex. Basal areolæ narrow, auricular very lax hexagono-rectangular hyaline, above subquadrate.

Granite alpine rocks. Wales, Scotland.


 * * L. not auricled.

§ St. radiculose.

112. B. & S. Tufts pale green glossy, st. 1/2-2in. fragile. L. densely crowded erecto-patent rigid incumbent when dry, lower lanceolate, upper extended into a subula, toothed at apex, wings recurved above. Nerve very