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recurved above, nerve very broad. Basal areolae lax, 

 pellucid, narroWj rectangular, above minute, quadrate, 

 no distinct alar cells. Caps, solitary, bent down, oval, 

 symmetric, fuscous, when dry plicate, contracted below 

 the mouth, lid couico-subulate, oblique, red. Calyptra 

 whitish, rufous at apex. 



Sandstone rocks and moist heaths. 



Var. /3. DENSTTS, B. and S. St. taller. L. shorter, 

 with more acute, entire points and laxer cells. 



86. C. Schimperi, Milde. Tufts dense, compact. St. 

 1 — 2 inches, slender, light silky green above, fuscous 

 below. L. erecto-patent, appressed when dry, straight, 

 rigid, lanceolate-subulate, channelled, denticulate only 

 at apex, nerve very broad, basal cells lax, rectangular, 

 hyaline, very narrow at margin, above elliptic. 



Alpine hills. 

 Scotland. 



87. C. subulatns, Schpr. {G. brevifolms, ed. 1). St. 

 i inch, yellowish-green, not radiculose, with caducous 

 ramuli. L. short, rigid, erect, lanceolate, longly acu- 

 minate, concave, obsoletely toothed at apex, nerve half 

 base, basal areolae hyaline, lax, rectangular, gradually 

 shorter and more quadrate, lower ones with their 

 transverse walls much thickened. 



Dry and stony places. 



Scotland, Ireland. 



Var. /3. ELONGATUS, Bosivell. " Tufts broad, exten- 

 sive, solid, dense. St. slender, elongate, 1 — 2 inches, 

 copiously radiculose below, repeatedly innovating, with 

 fasciculate branches above. Br. without radicles. L. 

 as in type. 



" Muddy banks of K. Wye, near Builth." 



H. Bos well, " Naturalist," ix. p. 28 (Sept., 1883). 



