TEEMATODON — DICEANELLA. 65 



Var. /3. FAGiMONTANUM. St. short. Bi-. sleader. L. 

 shorter. 



Var. 7. SEERATUM. L. crenato-serrate, with a more 

 acute point. Caps, elliptic or oblong, erect or nearly 

 so, lid with a slender beak. 



Fam. 2. Dicranee-verse. 



15. TEEMATODON, Rich. 



51. T. ambiguns, Hedw. St. branched, flexuose. 

 L. erecto-patent, spreading, curved, from an ovate- 

 oblong, concave base, lanceolate-subulate, channelled, 

 nerve strong, excurrent into an apiculus. Caps, oblong, 

 with a long tapering neck, subarcuate, on a flexuose 

 yellow seta. Annulus broad, lid subulirostrate. Per. 

 t. confluent at base into a membrane, unequally cleft, 

 incurved when dry (Sch. Syn., p. 69). 



Bare datnp places, bogs, &c. Summer. 



Tummel Bridge, Perthshire. R. Braithwaite, M.D-, 

 August, 1883. In small quantity. 



16. DICRANELLA, 8chp. 

 Section 1. L. squarrose or patent. 



a. Monoicous. 



52. D. orispa, Hedw. St. j inch, gregarious. L. 

 subulate, from a broadish sheathing base, setaceous 

 above, long, spreading, flexuose, minutely dentate, 

 nerved to apex. Caps, almost erect, oval or obovate, 

 striate, seta red, lid with a long, oblique, subulate 

 beak. Monoicous. 



Moist sandy banks. Not common. 



August, September. 



