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contracted below mouth when dry; lid shorter than capsule, yellow, 



convex-conic, rostrate, annulus of two rows; teeth pale yellow, processes 



perforated, and with two slender cilia. 



HAB. On stones and tree-roots 'in woods on limestone, not rare. Fr. 122, rare. 



Milt Dingle, Beaumaris c. fr. (Wilson 1828) ! I Mowthorpe dale and Oxcarr wood at Castle 

 HowaFd station c. fr. (Spruce 1847) ! ! Todmorden and Gordale '(Nowett). Arthog s Bar- 

 mouth c fr. (Whitehead)\\ Whitbarrow, Westmoreland c. fr. (/. M. Barnes 1871)!! 

 Dunton green, Kent (Holmes). Near Clifton c. fr. (Palgrave). 



4. ISOPTERYGITJM ELEGANS (Hook.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; in prostrate shining green patches. Leaves complanate or 

 oblique, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate with a few 'teeth at apex and two 

 short nerves or none. Capsule ovate, cernuous ; lid conic, shortly rostellate. 

 (T. CXVI, C.) 



SYN Hypnum elegans HOOK. Musci exot. i, t. 9 (1818), et ii, App. 19 (1820). SCHWAEG. Suppl. 

 Ill, P. II, t. 282 a (1830). SPRUCE in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. iii, 276 (1849), et in 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. iii, 135 (1849). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 260 (1851). WILS. Bry. 

 Brit 408, t. 59 (1855). SULLIV. Moss. Un. St. 80 (1856). HARTM. Skand. fl. 8 ed. 327 

 (1861). BERK. Handb. Br. Moss. 131 (1863). HOBK. Synops. 161 (1873). LESQ. JAMES 

 Moss N. Amer. 366 (1884). BOUL. Muse. Fr. 89 (1884). 



Isothecium elegans BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 356 (1827). 



Hypnum planifolium BRID. op. c. p. 411. 



Leskta prostrata TAYLOR MSS. 



Hypnum Borrerianum SPRUCE MSS. (1846). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 279 (1851). 



Plagiothecium elegans SCHIMP. Coroll. 116, in obs. (1856), Synops. 2 ed. 697 (1876). 

 JURATZ. Verb, z. b. Verein. Wien, 1863, P. 501. SULLIV. Icones muse. Suppl. 86, t. 64 

 (1874). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 350, t. 101 (1893). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 

 285 (1897). 



Rhynchostegium elegans LINDB. in Hedwigia 1863, p. 69, in Oefv. Vet. Akad. foerh. xx, 412 

 (1864), in Bot. Notis. 1865, p. 137 141, et in Notis. ur Saells. pro Fn. et Fl. fenn. foerh. 

 1867, p. 37. 



Plagiotheciunt Borrerianum SPRUCE in Journ. Bot. 1 880. p. 290. HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 210 

 (1884). Dix. JAMES. Handb. Br. m. 432 (1896). 



Isopterygium elegans LINDB. in Notis. saells. Fn. et Fl. fenn. xiii, 416 (1874). 

 Isopterygium Borreri LINDB. in Rev. bryol. 1882, p. 85. 



Dioicous ; growing in depressed shining patches, the stems prostrate 

 with ascending branches, bright or yellowish green. Plants increasing 

 by short caducous ramuli, which spring from axillar gemmae. Leaves 

 bifarious complanate, plane ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes slightly 

 falcate ; nerves very variable, obsolete or very short, or reaching length 

 of leaf ; cells narrow, subflexuose, similar but shorter at angles. Perich. 

 bracts erect, sheathing, inner lanceolate, ending in a long serrulate 

 subula ; seta purple ; capsule suberect or cernuous, reddish-yellow, narrowly 

 elliptic, with a short neck ; lid conical-apiculate ; teeth of peristome rufescent, 

 papillose above ; inner processes not perforated, cilia 23. 



