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3. B. microcarpon, Brid. ; stems slender, fasciculate ; 

 branches short ; leaves crowded, spreading, curved or subse- 

 cund, lanceolate, keeled, tapering into a short, diaphanous, 

 toothed point; fruitstalk short; sporangium small, oblong; 

 teeth of peristome short. — Hook. &; Wils. t. ki. ; Moug. fy 

 Nest. n. 1009. 



On rocks in dry places. Highlands of Scotland. Rare. 

 Bearing fruit in autumn. 



Forming pale or yellow-green, slightly glaucous tufts. 

 Branches short ; leaf-cells everywhere elongated and sinuous, 

 very minutely papillose ; diaphanous point very short ; walls 

 of sporangium thin. 



Mougeot and Nestler's plant seems to be right, but they 

 state that it perfects its fruit in spring, like R. fasciculare. , 



4. B. fasciculare, Brid. ; stem elongated, decumbent ; 

 branches fasciculate, ramulose ; leaves spreading, recurved or 

 incurved, linear-lanceolate, from a narrow tapering base ; 

 tip scarcely hyaline ; margin reflexed ; veil papillose ; spo- 

 rangium elliptic; lid subulate; teeth slender, nodulose, bi- 

 partite; ring large. — Hook, fy Wils. t. xix. ; Eng. Bot. t. 2005. ; 

 {Moug. fy Nest.n. 916). 



On wet rocks. Bearing fruit in spring. 



Forming loose patches of a lurid green. Stem decum- 

 bent ; innovations erect, varying in length ; leaves lanceolate, 

 tapering to an acute but green point ; margin recurved ; 

 leaf-cells elongated, narrow and sinuous, minutely papillose; 

 veil strongly papillose ; teeth very slender ; walls of sporan- 

 gium thick ; teeth red, nodulose, divided to the base. 



5. B. heterostichum, Brid. ; stems elongated, prostrate at 

 the edge of the patches, erect in the centre; leaves erecto- 

 patent or subsecund, subplicate, lanceolate, tapering into dia- 

 phanous points; margin recurved; sporangium subcylindrical, 



