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MUSCI. 
Mosszs Prorer. Urn-Mosses of Lindley. 
Division I. Acrocanpr; stems erect tufted ; fruit terminal or apical. 
BRUCHID A. 
PLEURIDIUM, Brid. 
P. nitidum, Hedw. (Phascum.) 
Damp ground, newly broken; not common. Winter. By Fifield 
Wood near Burford; Stanton St. John; damp ride, Bagley Wood, Berks. 
P. subulatum, Linn. 
Sandy and gravelly banks, and in woods. April. Wychwood Forest ; 
Shotover ; Wheatley; Nuneham; Bagley Wood, Berks. 
P. alternifolium, Br. & Sch. 
Hedge-banks in sandy soil; rare. April. Ramsden Heath; between 
Shotover and Cuddesdon, abundant in 1861 and 1862. Bagley Wood, 
scarce, 1866. 
WEISSIDZ. 
SYSTEGIUM, Sch. 
S. crispum, Hedw. (Phaseum.) 
Banks and fields, very rare. Spring. Roadside between Gosford and 
Weston-on-the-Green ; scarce. Mr. W. Holliday, 1861. 
S. multicapsulare, Sm. (Phascum.) 
Fields and banks, very rare. Spring. Grassy slope near Chilswell 
Farm, Berks, very scarce, 1861. 
GYROWEISSIA, Sch. 
G. tenuis, Schrad. (Gymnostomum.) 
Rocks and walls in damp or shady places and under herbage; rare. 
June. Stones in the canal banks in several places—near Oxford, Kidling- 
ton, Heyford, and Banbury ; old stone-pits in Blenheim Park. 
WEISSIA, Hedw. 
W. microstoma, Hedw. (Gymnostomum.) 
Fields and banks on bare spots amongst grass, not common. April. 
Near Stow Wood; between Shotover and Cuddesdon, with Pleuridium 
alternifolium ; Bullingdon Green; Bagley Wood and Pusey in Berks. 
