8 STNOPSTS OP BRITISH MOSSES. 



upper mucli larger, in a coma, subulabe, nerve thin, 

 margin entire. Caps, subspherical, on an erect or 

 arcuate seta, turbinate wben empty, neck tumid, lid 

 large, convexo-conical, thin-beaked. Perist. absent 

 (Anodus), or 16 free, linear-lanceolate teeth, articulate, 

 without a central linOj inflexed, when dry reflexed. 



Fam. 2. BrachydontsB. 

 PL with same habit as Seligerice, but with larger 

 chlorophyllose leaves. Calyptra mitriform, lobed, 

 subulate. Caps, without neck. Perist. t. less solid, 

 papillose. 



23. Campylostelium, B. and 8. Calyptra subulate- 

 mitriform, erect, equally lobed. Caps, oblong, on an 

 erect or arcuate seta. Annulus broad. Perist. 1. 16, 

 long, unequally bifurcate, subulate, arcuate-incurved 

 when dry. Spores minute. 



24. Brachydontium, Bruch. Calyptra split on one 

 side nearly to apex, oblique. Caps, on an erect seta, 

 oblong, obsoletely striate, sulcate when dry, lid con- 

 vex, with a straight subulate beak, margin crenulate. 

 Perist. t, confluent at base, broad, short, truncate or 

 apiculate, hyahne, remotely papillose. Spores small, 

 pale. Monoicous. 



Fam. 3. Blindise. 

 L. shining, cells narrow, rectangular and dilated at 

 basal angles. Caps, immersed or exserted, sub- 

 sphserical, with a tumid neck. Perist. absent, or of 

 16 teeth. Lid large, acutely rostrate. 



25. Blindia, B. and 8. Caps, immersed, gymno- 

 stomous, or exserted, with a perist. of 16 equidistant 

 lanceolate entire teeth, apex generally bifid, smooth. 



