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leaves smaller and paler, and not running out to quite so long — 
a point, unchanged in direction when dry (but in L. subtilis 
closely appressed and subsecund), sparingly and minutely | 
denticulate at the margins, more rarely entire: those of the 
perichetium remarkably serrate, but entire in L. subtilis; the 
capsule slightly inclined, shorter than that of L. subtilis, when 
dry contracted from below the mouth, assuming the form 
of a cornucopie; operculum shorter and not apiculate; 
inner peristome excessively fragile, with or without rudi- - 
mentary cilia. E 
Leskea confervoides (Hypnum confervoides, Brid.; H. Con- 
ferva, Schwgr.) is to be distinguished from L. Sprucü by the 
prostrate pinnatedly-branched stems, often denuded below; 
the leaves more spreading and with a tendency to become 
secund, appressed when dry; chose of the perichetium entire; 
the stouter pedicel; the much larger capsule, of a darker 
hue, oblong and cernuous ; the operculum much larger and 
terminating in an apiculus which equals one-third of be 
whole; the teeth of the outer peristome marked with a medial 
line; the inner peristome firmer and the cilia perfect. +% 
inflorescence of all three species is monoicous, and in L 
Sprucii the female flowers are remarkably numerous. E 
10. Mnium stellare, Hedw., *dioicum ; surculis omnibus 
erectis, sterilibusve decurvis; foliis decurrentibus, ovali- 
oblongis, acuminatis, immarginatis, serratis, costa SU). 
apicem evanescente ; capsula solitaria nutante, subinclinata, 
ovali-ovata, operculo hemisphærico vel conico-hemi 
rico” Bryol. Eur. m 
**Mnium stellare, Hedw., Spec. Musc., p. 191, T. 4 
Schwaegr. Suppl. Y. P. 2, p. 128; Bryum Polla stellaris, 
Brid. Bryol. Univ. I, p. 691. Hypnum stellare, W. et M.B. 
T. p. 294 ;” (fide B. et S.) ee 
Has. Gilla Leys Wood, Castle Howard, where it grows ? 
the roots of trees and on masses of tufa, chiefly near the 
stream called Crambeck; Jan. 1841. Mowthorpe Da% 
with perichætia, Jan. 1844. Loyer’s Walks, Matlock Ba 
