226 HISTORY OP BRITISH MOSSES. 



On moist banks in woods, or among shaded rocks. Seem- 

 ingly most abundant in the temperate districts of Britain 

 and Ireland. Pr. vSpring. 



Both the foliage and fructification of this Moss are beau- 

 tiful objects, and when once known will not be easily mis- 

 taken for any other vegetable form. The leaves are some- 

 what succulent and pellucid, from the large meshes glisten- 

 ing in damp shady spots in which it grows. While in a 

 fresh state it has an odour which has been compared to that 

 of the sweet violet. 



2. HooKERiA LiETE-viRENS, Hook. and Taylor. {Beep 

 Green Iloolceria.) Leaves bifarious, ovate, acuminulate, 

 margined very obscurely, serrated at the extremity with 

 two nerves reaching nearly the whole length. — Eng. Fl. 

 p, 74. H. albicans, Taijl. Fl. v. l.p. 36 ; MillL S//a. pt. 2. 

 p. 187. 



Dunscombe AYood, near Cork, detected in 1815, by Mr. 

 J. Drummond. O^Sullivan's Cascade and Turk Waterfall, 

 Killarney, W. II. Harvey, Esq. Yv. ]S"ovember. 



Smaller than the last, and darker in the shade of its 

 green foliage. It is closely allied to, if not identical with 

 Leslcea alLicans, from the West Indies, and seems to have 

 a taste for a genial climate, as the authors of the ' Musco- 



