282 HANDBOOK OP BRITISH MOSSES. 



below the tip ; sporangium cernuous, ovato-oblong ; lid shortly 

 rostrate. — Hook. 8f Wils. t. xvii.; Eng. Bot. t. 2004. ; (Moug. 

 # Nest. n. 320.) 



In wet rocky places near rivulets. Bearing fruit, though 

 rarely, in autumn. 



Forming dense, soft, yellow-green or brownish tufts. Stem 

 1-3 inches long ; leaves glossy, even, scarcely changed in ap- 

 pearance when dry ; margin plane ; ring none. Leaf-cells much 

 larger than in the other species, and more strictly hexagonal, 

 by which small dwarf specimens of D. Schreberi may be known, 

 though that species approaches the present in the type of reti- 

 culation. 



5. D. cervieulata, Schimp. ; tufted ; leaves concave, quite 

 entire, glossy, lanceolato-subulate from a half-sheathing ba^e, 

 spreading or secund ; nerve depressed, dilated at the base, ex- 

 current ; sporangium cernuous, ovate, strumous below, without 

 striae ; ring narrow ; lid subulate. — Hook, fy Wils. t. xvi. ; 

 Eng. Bot. f. 1661, 2261, 2491. ; {Moug. 8f Nest. n. 615.) 



On turfy or sandy soil. Bearing fruit in summer. 

 Dioicous; forming rather dense, broad, pale-yellowish 

 patches; sporangium. roundish, distinctly strumous at the base. 



6. D. varia, Schimp. ; gregarious ; stems short ; leaves 

 spreading or subsecund, lanceolato-subulate from an oblong 

 but not sheathing base, quite entire or obscurely toothed ; 

 nerve slightly excurrent ; perichsetial leaves half sheathing ; 

 sporangium ovate, oblong, cernuous, somewhat incurved when 

 dry, contracted below the mouth ; teeth large. — Hook, fy Wils. 

 t. xvii. ; Eng. Bot. t. 1215, 1273, 1439. ; (Moug. fy Nest. n. 

 412, 718.) 



On the ground, moist banks, etc. Common. Bearing fruit 

 in autumu. 



Forming broad, loose, rufous-green patches. Stems about 



