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 *rent into a short mucro; basal cells hyaline oblong and rectangular.

Ireland; Whitsand Bay, Cornwall; Hastings, (loc. cit. p. 99.)

142. T.. Hedw. Dwarf, branched. L. from an erect base, patent or secund, narrowly lanceolate, uppermost lanceolate subulate; per. l. sheathing half their length, quite entire; caps. oblong erect or a little curved, lid conic rostrate.

Carn Lochan and Mael Girdy, 1863 (Crombie); Clova (Fergusson). [Dr. Braithwaite, Jour. Bot. 228.]

β. glaciale. in long broad tufts with broader erecto-patent leaves. (This is Ditrichum zonatum Lorenz.)    L. subulate from a lanceolate base. A. dioicous.

143. Schrad. St. ¼in. gregarious, sub-flexuose; l. mostly secund, somewhat falcate, margin reflexed, nerve excurrent into the slightly toothed apex; caps. small cylindrical, erect, regular or curved; lid conical, slightly rostrate; per. teeth irregular, purplish red.

Sandy places, rare; Belfast, Yorkshire, Sussex.

144. Br. & S. St. 1-3in. flexuose, cæspitose, with fastigiate branches; l. longer and more setaceous than in last, flexuose, concave, usually secund, nerve broad, excurrent, toothed at apex; caps. erect, small, ovate-oblong; annulus present; per. teeth long irregular.

Scotch and Derbyshire mountains (calcareous).

var. β. densum. densely cæspitose; l. straighter.