124 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



t. xxvii. ; Eng. Bot. 1. 1327. ; (Plate 11, f. 3) ; Moug. 8f Nest, 

 n. 141. 



On the ground, rocks, etc., chiefly in calcareous districts. 

 Common. Bearing fruit in winter. 



Dioicous, forming soft, dense, yellow- green tufts or patches. 

 Stem ascending or prostrate, pinnate ; pinnae crowded, short ; 

 leaves crowded, glossy ; stem -leaves cordate at the base, acu- 

 minate, toothed, spreading, slightly striate ; margin plain, 

 toothed ; branch-leaves circinate, ovate at the base ; paraphylla 

 ovato-lanceolate ; fruitstalk even, fleshy, scarcely an inch 

 long, twisted when dry, reddish ; sporangium oval, short, cer- 

 nuous; lid conical, acuminate, half or two-thirds as long; 

 veil slightly hairy. 



One of the most elegant of our Mosses, and generally pro- 

 ducing fruit in great abundance, which is very persistent. 



B. Stem procumbent, more or less pinnate, fruit near the base. 



73. H. hamulosum, Frol. ; monoicous ; stem procumbent, 

 pinnate; leaves circinato-secund, hamulose, ovato-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, nerveless, serrated ; perichsetial leaves attenuated, 

 erect; sporangium subcylindrical ; lid conical, acuminate. 

 Tab. Iviii. 



Var. /3, micranthum, Wils. ; faintly two-nerved ; lid more 

 obtuse. Hook, fy Wils. t. Iviii. 



On alpine grassy declivities and in mountain woods. Bear- 

 ing fruit in summer. 



Stems about an inch long, slightly proliferous, pinnate; 

 leaves curved, hooked, ovate, strongly acuminate, serrate 

 above, nerveless ; margin even ; fruitstalk 1 inch long, even ; 

 sporangium subcylindrical, much contracted when dry. 



Allied to the next, but with differently-shaped leaves and a 

 different time of flowering. The male blossoms, according to 



