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or less toothed above; sporangium ovate or ovato-globose ; 

 mouth and conical apiculate lid small. — Hook, fy Wils. t. xlviii. ; 

 (Mouff. fy Nest. n. 8.28.) 



On walls and on the ground. Bearing fruit in the begin- 

 ning of summer. 



Forming short green patches. Leaves scarcely crisped when 

 dry ; margin reflected for two-thirds of their length ; excur- 

 rent nerve and base reddish ; internal peristome adherent, the 

 teeth and cilia partly free. 



Distinguished from B. ceespiticium by its narrow mouth. 



3. B. inclinatum, Br. fy Schimp. ; synoicous ; csespitose ; 

 leaves spreading, ovato-lanceolate, acutely keeled above ; nerve 

 excurrent; sporangium pendulous, more or less pyriform and 

 ventricose; mouth small; lid apiculate. — Hook. ^ Wils. t. 

 xlix. ; (Moug. §• Nest. n. 829.) 



On walls, banks, trunks of trees, etc. Bearing fruit in 

 early summer. 



Forming green patches. Leaves narrower and longer ; mar- 

 gin reflected ; sporangium generally more slender ; inner peri- 

 stome free above ; processes perforated ; cilia rudimentary or 

 wanting. 



This is distinguished from the foregoing species by the 

 longer more spreading leaves, longer sporangium, and nearly 

 free inner peristome. 



4. B. Warneum, Bland; monoicous or synoicous; stem 

 branched, radiculose; innovations short, often flagelliform ; 

 leaves ovate or oblongo-lanceolate ; margin recurved; nerve 

 continued to the serrulate apex ; sporangium pendulous, pear- 

 shaped, ventricose ; lid small, convex, apiculate ; processes of 

 inner peristome very narrow; cilia rudimentary. — Hook, §■ 

 Wils. t. xii. 



Sicles of rivers and ponds. Fife and Lancashire. Bearing 

 fruit at the end of summer. 



