DiCEANUM. 73; 



flexuoso-cirrhate towards apex, shorter and less at- 

 tenuated to point." 

 Teesdale,. Dunoon. 



74. D. elongatum, Schleich. St. 3 — 6 inches, tomen-, 

 tose. L. oblong-lanceolate, subulate, incurved above, 

 margin entire or nearly so, lower cells rectangular, 

 elongate, upper smaller, oblong. Caps, ovate, gibbous,, 

 scarcely striate, lid with a long oblique beak. 



Peat in mountainous places. Rare. August., 



Braemar and Inverness-shire. 



h. Caps, erect, symmetric. 



75. D. montanum, Hedw. {Weissia truncicola, ed. 1). 

 In large, dense, bright green tufts. St. 1 — 2 inches, 

 dichotomous, reddish, radiculose below. L. erect when 

 moist, and often secund on the young shoots, rather 

 soft, papillose at back, from a narrowly lanceolate 

 base, gradually subulate, channelled, thinly nerved 

 nearly to apex, margin not revolute, sharply denticulate 

 above and on the back of the nerve, strongly cirrhate 

 and twisted when dry, basal cells large, cylindraceo- 

 vesicular, the rest small, quadrate. 



Trunks of trees and roots in woods. Rare. 

 Several woods in Midland counties ; Den of Airlie ; 

 Wharncliffe woods (?) Dr. Parsons. 



76. D. flagellare, Hedw. St. | — 1 inch, branched, 

 tomentose, giving off flagellse, whose leaves are small, 

 upright, obtuse. L. lanceolate, secund, spreading, 

 tufted at summit of stem, curled when dry, elongated 

 into a smooth, almost tubular subula, slightly toothed 

 at extreme apex, where nerve vanishes. Caps, reddish, 

 striate. 



Trunks and roots of trees. Very rare. August. 



