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gium cylindrical; apophysis large, globose, tuberculated, 

 purple. Hook, ty Wils. t. xxxi.; Grev. Sc. Crypt. FL t. 179, 

 311 ; Eng. Bot. t. 2094. ; (Plate 15, fig. 5.) 



On the Scottish mountains, in wet places near springs. 

 Bearing fruit in summer. 



Annual biennial or perennial, forming soft deep-green tufts ; 

 sometimes dingy-green and less tufted. Stem elongated, clothed 

 with purple rootlets below ; leaves pointed, acute or obtuse ; 

 fruitstalk reddish ; sporangium cylindrical, rufous, with a large 

 globose dark -purple apophysis, which is minutely tuberculated 

 when fresh, rugose when dry. 



One of our finest and most interesting Mosses. 



OKDER XII. DISCELIEI, Br. & Schimp. 



Sporangium subglobose, cernuous ; ring large ; teeth six- 

 teen, cloven at the base ; veil twisted. Annual, nearly stem- 

 less Mosses, with confervoid rootlets. 



40. DISCELIUM, Brid. 



Characters those of the Order. 



1. D. nudum, Brid. Hook, fy Wils. t. xiv. ; Eng. Bot. t. 

 1421.; (Plate 15, fig. 6.) 



On clay banks. Scotland and north of England, especially 

 about Manchester. Bearing fruit in early spring. 



Dioicous ; plants scattered on a confervoid stratum. Leaves 

 few, imbricated, ovato-lanceolate, entire, large-celled, reddish ; 

 fruitstalk twisted when dry, about an inch long ; sporangium 

 globose, rather cernuous lid conical, more or less acute ; veil 

 split on one side, twisted, often entire at the base and adhering 

 to the fruitstalk. 



This Moss combines the habit of Phascum with the spo- 

 rangium of Catoscopium and the teeth of Trematodon. 



