DiCRANACEyE.] 133 [Campylopus. 



Dioicous ; in dense rigid tufts, i — 3 in. high, glossy yellow-green 

 above, reddish below ; stems covered with rufous tomentum arising 

 from back of leaf at base ; ramuli with small leaves, caducous. Leaves 

 crowded, erecto-patent or secund above, solid, lanceolate-subulate, 

 channelled, serrulate at apex, excavate at basal angles ; nerve broad, 

 nearly \ width of leaf-base, occupying all the denticulate apex, furrowed 

 at back, in section of 3 strata of nearly equal cells, the two anterior lax 

 and empty; angular cells lax vesicular brown, the rest subquadrate 

 pellucid, upper minute, elliptic, incrassate. Perich. bracts with a long 

 convolute sheathing base, suddenly subulate, denticulate at apex; 

 capsules often aggregated, seta pale brown, cygneous, finally erect, 

 caps, ovate rather gibbous, pachydermous, pale brown, slightly 

 furrowed ; annulus broad, lid conico-subulate, oblique, concolorous ;. 

 teeth red, cleft to middle, with slender hyaline legs. Male plant short, 

 inflor. often aggregated at apex, bracts broad, acuminate. 

 Hab. — On turfy ground and moist sandstone rocks. Fr. 11 — 2. 



Var. p. paludosus Schimp. 



Taller and more slender, with fewer radicles ; leaves more distant, more 

 elongated, with a narrower nerve. 



Syn. — Dicranmn paliistre La Pyl. Brid. Bry. univ. i, 814. 



Campylopus paradoxus p.p. Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 108. 



Hab. — Boggy heaths in subalpine districts. 



Barmouth (Dr. Wood 1875) ! in Herb. Schimp. as C. paradoxus. Foot of Cader Idris 

 (Percival 1876) ! ! Near Llyn Ogwen (Boswell 1874) ! ! Loch Maree (Boswell 1875) ! ! 



Much more robust than the ordinary form and 3 — 4 in. high, with the 

 bases of leaves often tinted with purple. 



8. CAMPYLOPUS PARADOXUS Wils. 



Dioicous ; in loose dull-green tufts with a few rufous radicles. 

 Leaves lanceolate, shortly subulate, rather obtuse, the nerve lost in the 

 apex ; angular cells fuscous, becoming smaller rhomboidal and quadrate 

 above. (T. XVIII, G.) 



Syn. — Campylopus paradoxus Wils. MSS. Hardy in Berwick. Nat. Club Hist. 1868, p. 448. 

 Braithw. in Journ. Bot. 1870, p. 390, t. in, f. 2. Hobk. Syn. br. m. 52 (1873). 

 Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 108 (1876). 



Dioicous; densely tufted, i — 2 in. high, dull deep green above, pale 

 fuscous below ; stems fastigiate, dichotomous or with short lateral 

 ramuli, and only a few rufous sparingly branched radicles. Leaves 

 erecto-appressed when dry, erecto-patent when moist, lowest ovate 

 obtuse, becoming lanceolate above, the uppermost shortly lanceolate- 

 subulate, concave and subtubular in upper part, apex with a few 

 irregular teeth ; nerve ^ width of base, vanishing at apex, composed of 



