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549 (1876). Raben. Deutsch. Krypt.-Fl. ii, P. Ill, 240 (1848). C. Muell. Syn. i, 151 

 (1848) ; et Deutsch. moose 144 (1853). Wii-s. Bry. brit. igg, T. 22 (1855). Jens. Bry. 

 dan. 59(1856). Klinggr. Crypt. Preus. 15 (1858). Hartm. SkandFl. g ed. ii,45 (1864). 

 LiND. in Not. ur Sallsk. Fn. et Fl. fenn. ix, 155 (1867). Berk. Hand. br. m. 215, t. ig, 

 fig. 6 (i86g). DeNot. Ep. Briol. ital.346 (i86g). Milde Bry. siles. 255 (i86g). Hobk. 

 Syn. Br. M. gg (1873). 



Buxb. caulescens Schmid. Diss. Buxt. 25, tab. i (1758). Schrank Baiers. Fl. ii, 485 

 (i78g). 



Buxb. caulescens aphylla Hall. Hist, stirp. Helv. iii, 25 (1768). 



Saccophorus aphyllus P. Beauv. Prodr. 30 (1805). 



liippopodium aphyllum Rohl. Deutschl. Fl, 2 ed. iii, 120 (1813). 



Buxb. curiosa Gray Nat. Arr. Br. pi. i, 750 (1821). 



Buxb. vulgaris Brid. Bry. univ. i, 32g (1826). 



Stem none. Vaginula thick, covered with fuscous radicles. 



Bracts minute, brownish, the lower ovate, deeply toothed, the upper 



broader, fimbriato-ciliate, areolation lax, the cells 5-6 angled. Seta 



rigid, erect, straight, i to i in. high, deep purple, very scabrous. 



Capsule with a short neck, inclined and subhorizontal, depressed, 



semiovate and somewhat boat-shaped above, ventricose below, 



smooth, greenish brown, the cuticle thicker, glossy, and closely 



adherent, rolling back at the mouth in about 16 segments, and 



forming a coroniform border ; operculum short, conoid, obtuse, falling 



with the columella attached ; peristome indistinct, united to the 



pseud-annulus or abortive. Spores very small. 



Hab,— On the earth or on decayed wood, especially in fir-woods. Fr. 4-7. 



Engl. — Sprowston, Norfolk (Hooker, Dec, 1806) ! Sawley moor, near Ripon, Yorkshire 

 (Mclver 1845) ! Ogden Clough, Tintwistle, Cheshire (Scholefield 1867) ! ! Near 

 Virginia Water, hedge bank, on mud taken from the ditch below (Prof. Lawson, 

 Apr., 1868) ! ! 



Scot. — Rosslin (Maughan 1808). Aberdeen (Jackson i8og). Hill of Dungloe, Kinross, 

 and Cleish Hills (Greville). Waddenhope rigg, near Peebles (Stewart 1818). George- 

 town hill, Fife (Arnott). Campsie Glen, Glasgow, and Ben Ledi (Lyon 1841).! Sidlaw 

 hills (Gardiner 1844) ' ! Ochil hills. Bowling Bay. Sinnaboth, Towie, near Aberdeen 

 (Coutts i860). Glen Prosen (Fergusson 1867). Brockhole's plantations, near the Tweed 

 (yerdon), and barren places on the Bizzle (Boyd 1867). Clough. ria-ben and Sculty 

 hill, Banchory (Sim 1869) ! ! 



Irel. — Purple mountain, Killarney (Wade in R. Dubl. Soc. Trans, iv. — 1804), not found 

 since. 



This strange plant has an annoying habit of disappearing from the 

 stations it occupies, probably due to some change in the constituents of 

 the substratum on which it is produced, and thus we can never rely upon 

 finding it a second time in the same locality. 



2. BUXBAUMIA INDUSIATA, Brid. 



Capsule leptodermous, not glossy, not depressed nor margined. 

 Peristome of four series of solid, slender, papillose teeth ; each series 

 increasing in length. (T. Ill B). 



Syn. — Buxbaumia viridis Brid. in litt. Lindb. Muse. Scand. 13 (1880). 



Buxb. aphylla Var. jB. viridis MouG. in De Can. Fl. fr. 3 ed. V, 227 (1815). MouG. Nest. 

 Stirp. Cr. Vog. R. n. 720 (1823). Myrin in W. Ak. Handl. 1831, p. 253. 



