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barren; Shotover Hill in fine fruit. Foliage usually of a fine rosy-pink 
colour. 
B. turbinatum,’ Hedw. 
Wet gravelly and sandy ground, and old peat-pits where the soil has 
been dug; rare. May, June. Bullingdon Bogs, 1858, 1868, but now 
nearly destroyed; Shotover Hill, fine. Near the Hincksey Rifle-butts. 
Foliage as red as in the last. 
B. pseudotriquetrum, Hedw. 
Bogs, wet moors and banks. June, July. Rare here, preferring more 
mountainous regions. Headington Wick; Bullingdon; Wychwood ; 
Weston, Mr. Holliday. A robust dark-hued species, more frequent 
amongst the mountains. Very variable in size, etc. 
B. roseum, Schreb. 
Shady banks in open woods and heaths; rare. Winter. Stockley Wood ; 
Singe Wood near Hailey ; Stow Wood ; Headington Wick Copse ; Shot- 
over Hill. No fruit, but the stellated clusters of leaves sometimes an 
inch in diameter. One of the most remarkable of our mosses: it has 
several close allies in the tropics, forming a very well marked group. 
MNIUM, Linn. 
M. affine, Bland. 
Wet heaths, bogs, springy places. May. Stream in Wychwood Forest 
with abundant perigonia ; bogs under Bullingdon and Headington Wick, 
and a few other places, but without fruit. 
M. cuspidatum, Hedw. 
‘Shotover Plantations’ (about 1790), Sibth. Flor. Oxon., but probably 
his plant was the next species, not then well discriminated. Buckland, 
Berks, 1860, 1862, J.8. Milne and H.B. Ihave not found it yet in 
Oxon. 
M. rostratum, Schwg. 
Shady banks, borders of woods and rocks. April. Shotover Planta- 
tions, 1860, 1865. Headington Wick; near Watereaton, 
M. undulatum, Hedw. 
Moist shady grassy banks and sides of woods, frequent but rare in fruit. 
April. Cornbury Park; near Hailey and Witney; Ditchley ; Watereaton 
Copse; Shotover Hill and Plantations ; Stokenchurch Woods; Cumnor 
and Pusey, Berks. ‘ 
M. hornum, Linn. 
Shady banks, woods and copses. April. Wychwood Forest ; Shotover 
Hill and Plantations ; Stokenchurch Woods. Bagley Wood, Wootton, and 
Cumnor, Berks. Its rarity near Oxford is remarkable. 
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