390 RECENT ADDITIONS TO OUR MOSS FLOUA. 



decurreiit, their cells orange-brown vvitli the central ones hyaline ; 

 above these they are laxer, becoming narrowly hexagono-rectangular 

 and at last quadrate, without chlorophyl, solid and yellowish. — Hab. 

 Moist heaths and rocks. Llanberis (Mr. Wilson). Stronaclacher, at 

 head of I^och Katrine (Mr. Hunt). Arrochar (Mr. Kinlay), with 

 fruit. Glenprosen (Mr. Fergusson). In structure the leaves closely 

 accord with those of Dicranodontium longirostre, but Mr. Hunt re- 

 ports that the fruit is that of Cam.pylopus. 



6. C. flexuosns, Bridel, Bry. Univ. vol. i. p. 469, pro parte ; Bry. 

 Eur. Brynm flexuosuin, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1583 (1763). D. Jkxuo- 

 sum, C. Miill. Syn. vol. i. p. 400. — Tufts more or less dense, yellow- 

 ish-green. Stems ^-\\ in. high, erect, dichotomous, radiculose to 

 apex, the radicles rufous-purple, bearing gemmae intermixed, secondary 

 shoots small leaved, deciduous. Leaves patent and straight or secund 

 and subfalcate, having the same direction wet or dry ; lower lanceolate, 

 upper lanceolate subulate, uppermost very long and toothed at apex ; 

 all concave, somewhat glossy ; the base, and by age wholly, red. 

 Nerve at base occupying one-third width, minutely channelled at back, 

 of 3 or 4 cell layers, the anterior hyaline and larger ; angles not 

 decurrent, with short, wide, fuscous cells, the others being hexagono- 

 rectangular, and tlie upper quadrate and chlorophyllose ; perichaetial 

 leaves 9, the inner sheathing, longly subulate, with a much narrower 

 nerve. Fruit 1-3 on the same shoot ; calyptra fuscous at apex. 

 Capsule oval, regular or gibbous, short-necked, olivaceous, or when 

 empty pale brown, with 8 ferruginous striae, sulcate when dry ; lid 

 from a convex, conical base, rostrate, shorter than capsule. Annulus 

 broad, double. Teeth rufous-brown. — Hab. Damp rocks and moist, 

 peaty soil, principally in subalpine districts. This species and C. py- 

 rlfornm and fragilis have been much confused by the old authors, but 

 are easily distinguished by the structure of the leaf-base. 



7. C. paradoxus, Wilson, ms. (Plate CXI. fig. 3.) — In compact 

 fastigiate tufts -§—1 in. high, dull yellowish-green' above, pale brown 

 below. Stems with a few rufous sparingly-branched radicles, simple 

 or dichotomous, with short lateral ramuli. Leaves erecto-appressed 

 when dry, erecto-patent when moist, the uppermost longest and 

 slightly secund, lanceolate-subulate, concave, and channelled above, 

 the apex usually ending in two teeth, with a few irregular ones on each 

 side below it. Nerve occupying one-third width of base, composed of 



