204 HANDBOOK O'F BRITISH MOSSES. 



Distinguished from W. carnea by its loose habit, glaucous 

 colour, and more ovate leaves. 



10. W. Tozeri, Schimp. ; dioicous ; stem short, gregarious ; 

 lower leaves somewhat obovate; upper obovate, apiculate, 

 more or less bordered ; leaf-cells large ; nerve reaching half- 

 way ; sporangium subpendulous ; peristome rather small ; lid 

 conical.— Hook §■ Wils. t. 1.; Grev. Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 285. 



On shady banks, etc., by the side of rivulets. South of 

 England and Ireland. Bearing fruit in spring. 



Forming little reddish patches. Stems short, reddish, in- 

 novated above ; leaves with a coloured border ; leaf-cells 

 large ; male flowers gemmiform ; cilia sometimes wanting. 



Allied to W. carnea, but differing in the less crowded, red, 

 margined leaves, the still looser reticulation, the shorter nerve, 

 and smaller peristome. 



57. LEPTOBRYUM, Schimp. 



Peristome as in Bryum ; innovations from the base ; leaves 

 very narrow; leaf-cells above hexagonal, elongated. Annual 

 Mosses, with slender stems, rooting only at the base.~ 



1. L. pyriforme, Schimp. ; synoicous; lower leaves lanceo- 

 late, entire, scattered, upper spreading, elongated, subsetace- 

 ous, slightly toothed ; nerve reaching to the tip ; sporangium 

 inclined or pendulous, pear-shaped ; lid convex, mammillary. 

 —Eook. 1$ Wils. t. xxviii. ; Eng. Bot. t. 389. ; (Plate 18, fig. 3) ; 

 Moug. fy Nest. n. 31. 



On sandstone rocks, sandy or turfy ground, etc., occasion- 

 ally also in stoves. Bearing fruit in early summer. 



Forming green, silky patches. Spore-sac small, attached 

 to the walls of the sporangium by threads ; lamina of the leaf 

 very small, almost the whole being taken up by the nerve, the 

 cells of which are very narrow. 



