04 SYNOPSIS OF BEITI3H MOSSES. 



cernuous or cernuous, gibbose-ovate, distinctly stru- 

 mose. 



Glen Phee, Braemavj Teesdale, &c. Rare. August. 



48. C. virens, Eedw. (ed. 1, Dicranum; Oncophorus, 

 Br. M. Fl., 165). St. 1 — 3 inches, branched, radiculose. 

 L. erect, ovate-lanceolatB at base, sheathing, running 

 to a long subdenticulate, almost setaceous prolongation, 

 margins recurved, nerve thick, subexcurrent. Caps, 

 cernuous, strumose, smooth, oblong, and curved, lid 

 beaked. 



Moist alpine rocks ; Ben Lawers, &c. June, July. 

 Var. /S. SEEEATtrs. L. patent, spreading, coarsely 

 serrate. 



"N. of England, Prof . Barker, 1876."—BraUhwaUe. 



49. C. Wahlenbergii, Brid. {Oncophorus, Br. M. FL). 

 St. short, scarcely branched. L. distant, narrowed 

 suddenly from a broad sheathing base into a long 

 linear acute subula, entire, or sometimes faintly toothed 

 near apex. Caps, obovate, short, much incurved, only 

 slightly strumose. 



Glen Callater. Rare. August. 



Var. ^. COMPACTUS. Very compact. L. denser, 

 strongly curled, entire. 



Braemar, Little Oraigandal. 



14. DICHODONTIUM, 8chp. 



50. D. pellucidum, Eedw. St, 1 — 2 inches, loosely 

 tufted. L. distant, lanceolate, squarrose, or patent, 

 spreading, margins undulate, denticulate at apex, 

 papillose, obtuse. Caps, shortly ovate, cernuous, 

 gibbose, lid conical, rostrate. Dioicous. 



Wet stones in streams. October, November. 



