268 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



87. ANACALYPTA, Milling. 



Sporangium oval ; veil cucullate ; peristome single or of 

 sixteen teeth, united at the base by a common membrane, 

 entire or imperfectly divided down the centre, sometimes 

 fragmentary ; leaf-cells rather wide, quadrate or rectangular, 

 enlarged below. 



1. A. Starkeana, Nees fy Hornsch. ; gregarious, annual ; 

 leaves ovato- or oblongo-lariceolate, mucronate from the 

 slightly excurrent nerve ; margin recurved ; lid conical, ob- 

 tuse j teeth obtuse, without a medial line, more or less per- 

 forated. Hook. Wils. t. xiv. ; Eng. Bot. t. 1490. ; (Moug. 

 $ Nest. n. 712.) 



On the ground, in pasture or ploughed fields. Bearing fruit 

 in winter. 



Monoicous ; scattered or csespitose. Sporangium minute ; 

 ring narrow, persistent ; peristome extremely variable ; teeth 

 lanceolate, obtuse or truncate, bifid, entire or cribrose. 



2. A. csespitosa, Bruch ; stems very short, simple or 

 branched ; leaves spreading, ovate or oblongo-lanceolate, 

 shortly mucronate from the excurrent nerve; lid rostrate; 

 ring simple ; teeth more or less perfect, perforated or split. 

 Hook, fy Wils. t. xli. ; (Moug. $ Nest. n. 909.) 



On chalk hills. Sussex, Mr. Mitten. Bearing fruit in 

 spring. 



Monoicous. 



Distinct from the last in the sheathing perichsetium, the 

 long beak, the more perfect peristome, and broader ring. 



3. A. lanceolata, Rohl. ; csespitose; stems elongated, 

 branched ; leaves spreading, obovate or oblong, with a long 

 mucro from the excurrent nerve; margin reflexed; sporan- 

 gium elliptic ; ring broad ; teeth linear-lanceolate, with a 



