428 FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
H. arcuatum, Lindb. (not of Hedw.) 
HH. pratense, Wils. Bryol. Brit. (not of Koch.) 
A. Patientic, Lindb. 
Moist banks, wet drains in woods and pastures; rare. Summer. On 
heavy loam by the side of a ride in Coggs Wood near Witney; barren but 
somewhat plentiful. This is larger than any form of cupressiforme, with 
leaves not tapering and acuminate; it seems to be a summer moss, here, 
dying down in autumn, but Mr. Saunders finds it in winter in South 
Bedfordshire, perhaps in a warmer situation. The true H. pratense of 
Koch has not been found in Britain, so far as I have been able to ascertain, 
and the present plant only in a barren state, though it occurs in several 
counties. 
H. molluscum, Hedw. 
Hilly ground, stone walls, woods and banks. October, November. 
Common, but not often fruiting. 
H. palustre, Linn. 
Stones in rivulets and wet banks, etc. Rare here. May. Banks of the 
Canal in several places ; stone-built drain near the church at Ducklington, 
Mr. Westell; Hanwell near Banbury. 
H. cordifolium, Hedw. ~ 
Wet ditches and grassy places. April, May. Rare; between Shotover 
and Headington Quarry ; ponds near Bagley Wood, with H. aduneum. 
H. cuspidatum, L. 
Wet spots in waste ground, bogs, marshes; very common. May. 
Fruit at Wychwood, Bullingdon, Bagley Wood and Pusey ; but rare. 
H. Schreberi, Willd. 
Woods, shady banks, heaths; rare in fruit. October, November. 
Wychwood; Shotover; Coombe Wood; Henley; Goring; Nettlebed, 
etc. No capsules, and they seem to be rare even in the north. 
H. purum, Linn. 
Grassy banks, woods, lawns, etc.; common. October. Fruit in shady 
places by woods, rare; Coombe Wood; near Watlington and Stoken- 
church ; Bagley Wood. 
HYLOCOMIUM, Schpr. 
Hypnum, auctt. 
H. splendens, Dill. Hedw. 
Grassy banks in woods and heaths. April. Wychwood; Coggs Wood; 
Shotover; Stow Wood; Stokenchurch; Buckland, Berks, etc. This 
seems not to produce fruit in these counties very freely, and only in the 
hilly woods about Wychwood and the Chilterns. 
