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curved ; capsule ovate, striated ; lid conical, acuminated. — 

 Eng. Fl.p. 25; MUlL Syn. pi. I. p. 783. 



Abundant on wall-tops and rocks. Fr. Spring. The 

 beautifully circular cushions formed by the short branches 

 and hair-tipped foliage of this little Moss, can scarcely have 

 been missed by the most casual observer of Nature's works. 

 It is quite an evergreen, refreshed by every shower, hiding 

 its capsules in Spring among the foliage till the spores are 

 mature, and subsequently exposing their empty walls to the 

 summer's sun. 



5. Grimmia trichophylla, Grev. {Hair-pointed Grim- 

 mia.) Stems elongated, loosely tufted; leaves lax, waved, 

 lanceolate, gradually tapering into a diaphanous point, their 

 margins recurved ; seta flexuose and curved ; capsule ellip- 

 tical-ovate, sulcate ; lid rostrate. — Unt/. M. p. 25 ; Milll. 

 Syn.pt. \.p. 785. 



On stony ground, chiefly in the north. Near Dublin. Tr. 

 April. First discovered by Dr. Greville on walls near Edin- 

 burgh, and fully described in his ' Scottish Cryptogamic 

 Mora/ pi. 100. Its long stems have considerable resem- 

 blance to those of a Trichostonnim. 



It seems abundant in Sweden, and in regions still more 

 distant from us. 



