84 HANDBOOK OP BRITISH MOSSES. 



On walls of red sandstone and roots of trees, especially 

 where subject to inundation. Lancashire and Cheshire, also in 

 Sussex and Yorkshire. Fruiting in winter and early spring. 



Dioicous ; forming low, dense tufts, with short, simple 

 branches ; leaves loosely imbricated, inclined to be secund, 

 ovate or ovato -lanceolate, pointed but not strongly acuminate, 

 minutely serrate ; fruitstalk rough ; sporangium inclined to 

 be erect, only slightly curved; lid half as long as the spo- 

 rangium. 



Of this I have seen no specimen. It has been found on the 

 Continent by Spruce, in the Pyrenees. It is distinguished 

 from H. rutabulum by its longer lid and less acuminate, more 

 spreading, shining leaves, besides other points. 



V6. H. illecebrum, Sckweeg. ; stem procumbent, slightly 

 pinnate ; branches short, incurved ; leaves crowded, erecto- 

 patent, ovate, concave with a reflexed point, minutely serrated ; 

 nerve strong, ending below the tip ; fruitstalk rough ; lid 

 conical, obtuse, with a little terminal point. — Wils. fy Hook, 

 t. xxxv. ; Eng. Bot. t. 2715. ; (Moug. fy Nest. n. 1219.) 



On grassy banks and rocky pasture-ground near the sea ; 

 at present not found north of Holyhead. Bearing fruit in 

 autumn and early winter. 



Dioicous ; pale green ; stem procumbent, sparingly pin- 

 nate, tomentose beneath ; branchlets short, erect, thin, incurved, 

 obtuse ; leaves closely imbricated, very concave, erecto-patent, 

 ovate with a recurved point, minutely serrated, especially 

 above, shining ; nerve strong, vanishing below the tip, often 

 forked, sometimes projecting from the back of the leaf " like 

 the awn of a grass ;" fruitstalk scabrous ; sporangium elliptic- 

 oblong, cernuous; lid conical, obtuse, with a little terminal 

 point ; perichsetial leaves with the nerve reaching scarcely 

 halfway up. 



