178 NEW BRITISH MOSSES. 
ingly branched, and by no means pinnate. Leaves almost 
triangular in outline, scarcely acuminate, more laaly placed 
and less falcato-secund than in H. cupressiforme. Capsule 
oblong, cernuous (that of H. cupressiforme cylindraceous, 
erecto-cernuous). Lid conical (not rostrate). Annulus broad. 
Teeth of outer peristome not marked with a medial line. - 
Inner peristome more widely areolate, and with shorter 
cilia. 
8. Leskea pulvinata, Wahl. * Surculis procumbentibus sub- 
capillaceis, ramis adscendentibus, foliis ovatis acutis (sub) 
enervibus, capsulis oblongis cernuis.”—Flora Lapponict, 
p. 369. ded 
.L. subenervis, Schwaegr. Suppl. Prim., Sect. posterior, — 
p. 176, Tab. LXXXV. (fide Wilson et Taylor). FRA 
Has. On trees and shrubs in situations exposed to inunda- 
tions from the Ouse, in the neighbourhood of York, where 
I first observed it on the 30th of October, 1841. On wil- 
lows by the Cock, near Tadcaster, sparingly. “On willows 
by the Mersey, near Withington, four miles from Man- 
_ chester, April 16th, 1843 ;? Mr. Nowell and Dr. J. B. Wood. 
From the circumstance of this species always growing 
with L. polycarpa, Hedw. (H. medium, Dicks.), and bearing | 
considerable external resemblance to it, both Dr. Taylor and | 
myself were formerly induced to consider it a mere variety 
in consequence of this, I undertook a complete analysis d 
the two species (the principal results of which are here give 
and sueceeded in proving them truly and abundantly dis 
tinet, 6 
Plants forming extensive cushions or patches on the bark 
oftrees, Stems procumbent; branches slender, but varying 
.in the degree of tenuity,* erect or ascending, level-topP™ 
slightly and irregularly subdivided, save in the circumference 
of the tufts, where there occur prostrate subpinnate shoots - 
In L. polycarpa the stems are for the most part pinnatet? 
branched, loosely spreading, and frequently intricate, 1% 
* Wahlenberg’s specimens are far more slender than most of the York 
shire ones. ; 
