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SYNOPSIS or BRITISH MOSSES. 



Division II. STBGOMITRIA (Musci gemiini). 



Section I. AOBOCABPI. 



Tribe iv. Weissiacb^. 



Fam. WeissisB. 

 4. SYSTEGIUM, Schp. 



24. S. crispum, Hedw. St. 5 inoh, caespitose, witli 

 fastigiate branches. L. lanceolate-subulate, grooved^ 

 erect or spreading, margins involute, nerve excurrent ; 

 per. L very long, concave at base, sometimes almost 

 secund. Caps, roundish, immersed, pale brown, beak 

 oblique. 



Banks and fields, chiefly limestone. Spring. 



25. S. Mittenii, Schp. (ed. 1, p. 31). St. fragile, 

 flexuose, erect. St. 1. squarrose and recurved, broadly 

 lanceolate, nerve thick, terete, vanishing at apex. 

 Caps, on a longer pale seta, ovate, lid small, beak 

 rostrate. 



Damp clay soils, roadsides, &c. Spring. 



Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. Mr. Mitten. 



26. S. multieapsulare, Smith. St. ^ in., loosely tufted. 

 L. distant, alternate, spreading, lanceolate, recurved, 

 above the middle, somewhat obtuse, with an excurrent 

 nerve and plane margin; per. 1. longer and broader, 

 erect, incurved. Caps, ovate, elliptic, tapering to an 

 oblique short beak, on a longish pedicel, sometimes 

 two together. 



Clay fields, &c. Rare. March. 



Sussex, Cheshire, Yorkshire, &c. 



