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lanceolate muticous, innermost ovate, obtuse. Vaginula naked. Calyp- 
tra glossy, straw-coloured, with only a few short appressed ramenta. 
Capsule with a ve ong n neck, attenuated into a slender longish 
pedicel twisted to the left, oval-oblong, papoose with narrow 
orange coste, when dry 7 not contracted at mouth. Cells of 
: ; itudine : 
a as pried pale yellow. Samat rufescent. 
Hab. —Killarney, on branches of Hawthorn and Mountain Ash, 
along with W. Bruchii (Dr. Carrington) ; near Dailly, Ayrshire, and 
— Doon (Mr, Shaw). Fr. June. First found in Madeira by Mr. 
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6. W. Drummondit, Lindb. Orthotrichum Drummondii, Hook. & Grev. 
—Grev. Scot. Cr. Fl., t. 115 (1824). Ulota Drummondii, Brid. 
Monoicous, ae in ath ioe pale Ss pewabe pt danagh tufts. Ste 
creeping, rooting in hole length, with short, thick deniaclanin 
branches. Leaves ei an ovate soaps short, lineal-lanceolate, 
obtusely pointed, the comal longer, the pericheetial broader at base, 
all slightly curled when dry, margin a little revolute below ; cells at 
base next to nerve narrow, elliptic, at wing quadrate, hyaline, above 
minute, rounded incrassate. Nerve red, vanishing below apex. Cap- 
sule exserted on a short pedicel, cp tiSegranet Mido bioa wand 8- sulsita 
to base, pale brown, when old fusiform y narrowed to 
orifice, small-mouthed, furrows nici turned to oa “Cells of vittee 
rectangular, leptodermous. yptra conico-campanulate, pes 
coloured, sparingly ramentaceo Lid pale, conical, acicular. Teeth 
16, geminate, whitish, Ahlen, ahakas when dry, perforated or cleft 
ae 
ab.—On Birch and Mountain Ash, Scotland, Ireland, North of 
Rngland Fr. August 
7. W. americana, ink Orthotrichum americanum, P. Beauvois, 
Prodr., p. 80 (1805). Orthotrichum Hutchinsia, Smith, Eng. 
Bot., 2532 (1813). Ulota Hutchinsia, Schpr. 
Monoicous, densely fasciculate-pulvinate, interwoven at base, or 
coating rocks in wide strata; the innovations deep green, the rest dark 
brown, rigid and fragile when dry. Stem at first erect, nearly 
simple or dichotomous, by age defoliate at base, decumbent and 
tomentose. Leaves very densely imbricated, erect, rigid, from a more 
or less dilated base, ovato-lanceolate, carinate , the wings patulous 
_ or recurved, when dry appressed, scarcely flexuose, nerve nearly 
reaching apex. Cells at Saas rectangular, very narrow, fulvous, the 
unded. 
ing the comal leaves, when dry sulcate, twisting to the nigh’ 
Capsule when moist stoutly pyriform, pale greenish-yellow, ee anoad 
8-vittate, when dry contracted, oblong strongly 8-sulecate, brown 
cells at vite pachydermous, quadrate, the longitudinal walls i incras- 
