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gium at first confluent with the long tapering neck, then more 

 swollen. 



In outward aspect, apart from the sporangium, resembling 

 somewhat Bryum argenteum. 



2. Z. demissa, Schimp. ; leaves ovate, cuspidate-acuminate ; 

 margin recurved ; nerve ceasing below the apex or excurrent ; 

 sporangium decidedly cernuous, incurved ; neck scarcely so 

 long. Hook. Wils. t. xxxvi. ; Grev. Sc. Crypt. FL t. 92. 



Summits of Breadalbarie mountains. Bearing fruit at the 

 end of summer. 



Dioicous ; forming reddish patches. Stem shorter than in 

 the last ; lower leaves ovato-acuminate, nerve generally ceas- 

 ing below the apex; upper hair-pointed with the nerve ex- 

 current, erecto-patent, entire; fruitstalk strongly arched, about 

 J an inch long ; sporangium clavate, with a shorter tapering 

 neck; inner peristome much longer than the outer teeth, the 

 divisions of the teeth variously united. 



54. ANOMOBRYUM, Schimp. 



Sporangium symmetrical ; peristome double, outer of six- 

 teen teeth, inner a plicate membrane split into sixteen more 

 or less cleft processes, with one or more intermediate cilia ; 

 leaf-cells hexagono-rhomboid and rectangular towards the 

 base, very narrow above, especially towards the margin, ver- 

 miform towards the nerve. 



1. A. julaceum, Schimp. ; leaves densely imbricated every- 

 where, nearly equal, ovate, concave, blunt ; margin plane, en- 

 tire or minutely toothed above ; nerve ceasing below the apex 

 or slightly excurrent; sporangium drooping, oblongo-obovate ; 

 lid mammillary. Hook. Wils. t. xxviii. ; Eng. Eot. t. 2270. 



On damp rocks in alpine or subalpine districts. England, 

 Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Bearing fruit in autumn. 



