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Near Cork, Dublin, Cheshire, and other localities in the 

 north of England, in fields and garden-walks. Pr. 'Feb. 

 A very minute species, and requiring some skill to detect it 

 amid the societv of other minute Mosses. It is the G. 

 minukchim of several Continental botanists. 



12. Gymnostomum fasciculaee, Hedw. {Blunt Pmr- 

 shaped Beardless Moss.) Leaves oblong-acuminate, nearly 

 plane, subserrated, margined ; capsule pyriform ; lid plane or 

 subconvex, submammillate. — Eng. Fl. p. 9. Entosthodon 

 ericetorum, Miill. 8yn.pt. \. p. 122, 



Wet banks and rocks. Er. Spring. A gregarious 

 Moss and a very neat species. The foliage, and especially 

 the fruit, is frequently of a reddish hue. 



The Entosthodon or Bhyscomltrion (Gymnostomum) fasci- 

 culare of recent authors is somewhat different in appearance, 

 and that described by us is the rarer of the two; only 

 one Irish station, in Connemara, being given as a habitat 

 within our boundaries. The form of capsule and structure 

 of leaf are the distinguishing marks. This, on the authority 

 of Sir J. E. Smith, is regarded as the Hyssopus Salamonis, 

 " Hyssop on the wall," of Hasselquist, the learned botanical 

 traveller, whose specimens we believe are still preserved ia 

 the Liimean Herbarium. 



