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and more entire teeth, much more transparent below, and all 

 the basal leaf-cells, with the exception of those of the nerve, 

 rectangular. 



2. Fruitstalk arched. 



6. G. Schultzii, Brid. ; monoicous ; tufted ; leaves crowded, 

 lanceolate, subsecund, hair-pointed ; margin recurved ; fruit- 

 stalk curved, short ; sporangium broadly elliptic or obovate, 

 furrowed; ring very large; teeth long, deeply bifid. — Hook. 

 Sf Wils. t. xliv. 



On subalpine, generally quartzose rocks. Scotland, Wales, 

 and Cornwall. Bearing fruit in spring. 



Forming loose, irregular, dark cushions. Stems rather robust 

 but short, suberect; diaphanous hair-point of leaves very 

 rough ; fruitstalk swan-necked ; teeth brittle, very long and 

 slender ; leaf-cells of the angles quadrate or rectangular, of the 

 dorsal disk narrow, those above minute except at the diapha- 

 nous sides of the excurrent nerve. 



7. Gr. trichophylla, Grev. ; dioicous ; loosely tufted ; leaves 

 spreading, lax, assurgent, curved when dry, linear-lanceolate, 

 hair-pointed ; margin recurved ; fruitstalk curved ; sporan- 

 gium elliptic, furrowed; ring large; teeth bifid. — Hook, fy 

 Wils. t. xxxii.; Grev. Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 100.; {Moug. !$ Nest. 

 n. 814). 



On stone walls in subalpine districts. Fruit in spring. 



Forming loose, yellow-green cushions. Fruitstalk when 

 dry nearly erect ; sporangium with eight furrows ; teeth rather 

 long ; leaf-cells as in the last. 



8. G. Hartmannii, Schimp. ; csespitose ; stem elongated, 

 procumbent, rigid ; leaves elongato-lanceolate, very shortly 

 hair-pointed, sharply keeled above, spreading when dry. 



On quartzose rocks. Conway, W. Wilson. Perfect fruit 

 unknown in this country, as also on the Continent. 



