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 135. Hook. & Tayl. Barren stems long trailing, fertile ½in; l. spreading, flexuose, more so when dry, oblong or ligulate, margin reflexed below, and serrate at apex, nerve not reaching apex; areolæ round; caps. small cylindrical, somewhat curved, lid with a short beak; per. teeth short.

High moorlands, Buxton, Alderley Edge, Ben Ledi.

var. gemmescens. Mitt. MS. Nerve excurrent into an apiculus, which bears a cluster ef egg-shaped or oblong gemmæ.

Old thatch, Amberley, Sussex (Mitten).

136. Tayl. "Stems elongate, loosely cæspitose; l. squarrose, crisped and undulate when dry; elliptic oblong or ligulate, pale margined serrulate, nerve sub-excurrent; areolæ small dense opaque, elongate and pellucid at base." Ireland, 1842; fruit not known (Wilson).

26. TRICHOSTOMUM.

L. lanceolate or ligulate: dioicous.

137. Brid. St. ¼-1in. densely cæspitose, branches fasciculate; l. lanceolate (the upper ones obtuse), concave keeled, margins recurved; nerve not reaching to apex; caps. sub-cylindrical erect, regular; lid with an oblique beak; per. teeth variable, sometimes only 16, somewhat fugacious.

Moist places and rocks. XI.

138. Bruch. (T. mutabile. olim.)