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In bogs. Cheshire and Lancashire. Bearing fruit in au- 

 tumn. 



Forming shining green patches. Stems sometimes a foot 

 long, radiculose ; leaves when dry curled above, toothed above 

 as well as the margin ; nerve not reaching the tip. I do not 

 find either in English or foreign specimens the tips of the 

 leaves subpapillose, nor is the character mentioned by Schim- 

 per. Leaf-cells nearly as in the last, but the upper ones rather 

 more distinct. 



10. D. spurium, Hedw. ; loosely tufted, radiculose ; leaves 

 ovato-lanceolate, concave, suddenly linear-lanceolate, much 

 undulated, toothed, papillose behind ; nerve ceasing below the 

 tip; sporangium cernuous, arcuate, subcylindrical, slightly 

 strumous, striated. Hook, fy Wils. i. xvii. ; Eng. Bot. t. 2167 

 in part ; (Moug. fy Nest. n. 319.) 



On heaths and bogs. Yorkshire and Scotland. Bearing 

 fruit in June. 



Synoicous ; forming large patches. Stems stout, rigid, di- 

 chotomous ; leaves crowded, spreading, more or less imbri- 

 cated when dry, and somewhat crisped ; lid with a long beak ; 

 leaf-cells subpunctiform more than halfway down; papillae 

 distant. Habit peculiar. 



Dicranum robustum, Blytt, is said by Schimper to have 

 been found in a barren state near Warririgton. 



95. DICRANELLA, Schimp. 



Veil cucullate, rather large, slightly inflated ; sporangium 

 mostly cernuous ; peristome large, regular ; teeth bifurcate ; 

 leaf-cells above oblongo-hexagonal, rectangular at the base ; 

 stems normally short. 



1. D. crispa, Schimp. ; monoicous ; leaves subulate from a 

 sheathing base, toothed at the tip, spreading and flexuous 



