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This may be distinguished from O. affine, which it some- 
what resembles, by its much smaller size; the smaller and 
cylindraceous capsule, which is more widely areolate and 
marked with 8 broad orange-coloured strie ; the shorter almost 
conical lid; the much larger straw-coloured calyptra, and the 
proportionally smaller and less opaque peristome. 
17. Phascum Floerkeanum, Web. et Mohr. 
Var. B. * foliis longioribus, angustioribus, magisque pa- 
tulis distincta, calyptra ob capsulam angustiorem semper 
conica erectaque occurrit." Bryol. Eur. 
Phascum badium, Nees et Hornsch., Bryol. Germ. 1, p. 53, 
t. V, f. 11, (fide B. et S.) 
Has. In a stubble-field on the S. side of Bulmer Hagg, near 
Castle Howard, growing with Pottia minutula. Br 
Leaves much narrower than in the normal form, brown, 
the nerve rather strong, the margins subdenticulate upwards 
and reflexed. Calyptra conical, quite erect, generally with 
two or more fissures at the base. 
Phascum Floerkeanum is frequent in the autumn in stubble- 
fields on a clayey soilin the neighbourhood of Castle Howard, 
where I have found specimens uniting it with the var. a. 
18. Phaseum friguetrum, n. sp., monoicum, subacaule; foliis 
trifarie dispositis, conniventibus, obovatis, apiculatis, cari- 
nato-navicularibus, margine reflexis, costa excurrente; cap- 
sula magna, horizontali, sphærica, immersa. 
Ph. triquetrum, Spruce in Eng. Bot. Suppl. ined. 
Has. In bare spots among short grass on the summit of the 
cliffs between Brighton and Newhaven, where it was dis- 
covered by Mr. Borrer in April, 1844. 
Plants appearing to the eye like little triangular bulbs, 
equalling those of Ph. muticum in size, about 9-leaved, green 
at the time of flowering but assuming a reddish-brown tinge 
as they advance towards maturity. Leaves trifarious, closely 
imbricated and connivent; the three lowest minute, ovate, 
nerveless, occasionally cloven; the three uppermost (those of — 
the perichzetium) broadly obovate, apiculate, sharply carinate, 
remarkably boat-shaped, being hollowed out upwards as it 
Were for the reception of the capsule (which they closely em- 
