162 HANDBOOK 01? BRITISH MOSSES. 



Moist banks and sandstone caves. In several parts of Eng- 

 land, but local. Abundant near Nottingham, on the Mansfield 

 road. Bearing fruit in spring. 



Dioicous ; rhizoma creeping. Stem very short, nearly naked 

 below; leaves distichous, vertical, elliptico-rhomboid ; cells 

 large ; fruitstalk terminal ; vaginula leafy below ; veil variable, 

 rather ragged at the base, brownish at the tip, fugacious ; lid 

 convex, not really splitting up except when compressed. 



A most lovely little Moss, sometimes illuminating the caves 

 where it grows with a golden light, from the refraction of its 

 young succulent confervoid threads. 



Order XI. SPLAGRNEI, Br. & Schimp. 



Sporangium straight, furnished at the base with an apophy- 

 sis often of greater diameter than itself; spores mostly radia- 

 ting ; leaves diaphanous, large-celled. Mosses mostly spring- 

 ing from decayed wood, vegetables, or dung. 



35. (EDIPODIUM, Schwag. 



Sporangium subclavate, confluent with the apophysis and 

 fruitstalk; peristome wanting ; spore-sac globular, contiguous 

 to the walls of the sporangium ; veil hood-shaped, fugacious ; 

 lid convex ; leaf-cells roundish. 



1. CE. Grifflthianum, Schwceg. — Hook. 8f Wils. t. vii. ; Eng. 

 Bot. t. 1938.; (Plate 14,/. 5.) 



In crevices of rocks on our higher mountains. Bearing 

 fruit in summer. Not known as a native of the Continent, 

 except in Norway. 



Forming little pale tufts. Stem very short, except when 

 gemmiferous ; leaves obovate, waved, narrow at the base, with 

 branched rootlets springing from it behind ; nerve very strong, 

 ending abruptly about halfway up; leaf-cells roundish, sub- 

 hexagonal, more elongated towards the base. 



