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extending nearly to the apex ; lid shortly rostrate ; ring very 

 broad, compound, persistent ; teeth rather broad, confluent at 

 the base, hyaline, slightly pierced ; lid crenulate at the base, 

 edged with red; leaf-cells distinct, oblong, subrectangular, 

 those at the basal wings hexagonal and sienna-brown ; teeth 

 scarcely rising beyond the ring. 



104. CAMPYLOSTELIUM, Br. # Schimp. 



Sporangium pendulous, on a curved fruitstalk, even; veil 

 conico-subulate, five-cleft, covering the lid ; ring double ; peri- 

 stome single, of sixteen lanceolate, long, trabeculate teeth, con- 

 nected at the base, cloven above. 



1. C. saxicola, Br. §• Schimp. — Hook. Sj- Wils. t. xiii. ; Eng. 

 Bot. t. 2627. } (Plate 24, fig. 4.) 



On sandstone rocks. Dublin and England. Rare. Bear- 

 ing fruit in autumn. 



Monoicous; very short. Leaves linear, concave, from an 

 oval base, keeled, reddish, twisted when dry; nerve thick, 

 scarcely reaching the apex ; sporangium on a rather long fruit- 

 stalk, elliptico-oblong ; teeth erect when moist, forming a cone, 

 incurved when dry, red, more or less regularly cloven ; leaf- 

 cells very distinct, quadrate above, with thick walls, rectangu- 

 lar below. 



105. EHABDOWBISSIA, Br. ty Schimp. 



Sporangium erect, striate, furrowed when dry; veil cucul- 

 late ; peristome single, of sixteen narrow teeth, closely articu- 

 lated, without a medial line ; ring very narrow ; leaf-cells sub- 

 quadrate above, rectangular and pellucid below. 



This is now reduced by Schimper to a subgenus of Weissia. 



1. B. fugax, Br. fy Schimp.; pulvinato-raespitose ; leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, keeled ; margin plane ; fruitstalk very short ; 



