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tufts, resembling undulatmn, but smaller and more slender. Leaves 

 narrower, with denser areolation, and a very narrow border, serrate 

 only at apex, and with more numerous lamellae. Capsule narrow, 

 cylindraceous, straight or a little arched, purple ; lid shining, dark 

 purple, shortly rostrate. — Shady banks. Doune, in fruit (M'Kinlay). 



2. J. tenellum, Br. and Sch. Bry. Eur. vol. iv. Catharinea tenella, 

 Eohling, Ann. Wetter. Gesell. vol. iii. p. 234. — Dioicous. Stem short, 

 dense leaved. Leaves elongate-lanceolate, scarcely undulate, smooth 

 beneath, curled when dry; margin toothed in the upper half; lamelhe few, 

 colour dull green. Capsule on a yellowish or pink pedicel, subcernuous, 

 very short, oblong, fuscous ; lid large, long beaked ; calyptra scarcely 

 hairy, persistent. — Sandy places and dried-up pools. Loch Goil head. 

 Killin, Perthshire. 



3. A. crispum, James in SuUiv. Ic. Muse. p. 73, tab. 46. A. laxi- 

 folium, Wilson, ms. (Plate CIX. fig. 1.). — Dioicous; much more 



slender than A. undulatum, with simple stems. Lower leaves small, 

 somewhat spathulate ; upper much larger, oblong-lanceolate, slightly 

 undulate, border thickened, toothed ; nerve reaching apex, scarcely 

 lamellate ; areolation larger, hexagonal or rounded. Capsule obovate- 

 oblong, suberect or inclined, wide-mouthed ; teeth very short, some- 

 what irregular ; pedicel red. — Rowley ]\Ioor, near Heywood, Lancashire 

 (Dr. Wood). Oakmere, Cheshire (Wilson). Sides of streams in the 

 Saddleworth district. Eattle Brook, Dartmoor (Mr. Brent). The 

 male plant only has been found in Britain ; the fertile one has the leaves 

 longer and more crisped, and was detected in New Jersey by James, 

 and distributed in SuUivant and Lesquereux's ' Musci Boreali-Ameri- 

 cani.' 



1. Polytriclium strictiim, Menzies, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. iv. p. 77, 

 tab. 5, fig. 1, — P. jimiperinum, (3. strictum, and y. cdpestre, Br. and 

 Sch. Bry. Eur., — is again raised to specific rank, having the stems 

 more slender, very tenacious, densely matted, branched, closely inter- 

 woven with whitish tomentum. Leaves straight, erecto-patent, imbri- 

 cated when dry, shorter and narrower, pale glaucous-green. Capsule 

 shorter, cuboid, acutely angled, rufous- orange ; calyptra brownish or 

 white. 



BUXBAUMIACE^E. 



1. Biixhanmia indusiata, Bridel, Bry. Univ. vol. i. p. 331. — Uesem- 

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