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 31. HEDWIGIDIUM. B. & S.

191. B. & S. St. 1-3in. irregularly, not dichotomously branched, flagelliferous; l. ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, imbricate when dry, margin recurved, apex not diaphanous, but slightly crenate; caps. exserted on a short seta, spherical or obovate; lid with a blunt slightly oblique beak; calyptra cucullate, reddish.

Rocks. Wales and Ireland.

32. GRIMMIA. B. & S.

Caps. smooth, immersed on a very short straight seta, calyptra small, cleft at base into several lobes.

192. B. & S. Cæspitose; intense green above, blackish below; l. ovate-lanceolate, tapering in the upper ones to a short hair point; margins slightly recurved and thickened, nerve strong, deeply channelled on its upper side; caps. small ovate, with a rostellate lid, almost pellucid; per. teeth much perforated, pale or orange red.

Rocks, Scotland.

β. urceolare. caps. urceolate; leaves with white points.

γ. obtusifolium. l. all obtuse, shorter and broader.

δ. incana. (G. pruinosa. Wils. MS.) more robust, per. l. broader with long hair points; caps. more elongate, per. teeth stronger, nearly entire red. [Dr. Braithwaite, Jour. Bot., N. S., vol. I., 195.] Trap rocks. King's Park (Greville); Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh (Bell); Fife (Howie).

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