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chlorophyllose. Flowers of eacli. sex collected in 

 capitula, males 3 — 4, females numerous. 



Wet places, and clefts of rocks. 



Scotland, Ireland. 



91. C. fLexviosvLS, Brid. Tufts dense, yellowisb-green. 

 St. ^ — 1^ inches high, erect, dichotomous, with rufous 

 purple radicles to apex, bearing gemmse intermixed. 

 L. patent, straight, or secund, sabfalcate, lower lanceo- 

 late, upper subulate, uppermost very long and toothed 

 at apex, all concare, glossy, red when old, nerve 

 one-third width of base, angles not decurrent, with 

 short, wide, fuscous cells, others hexagono-rectan- 

 gular, upper quadrate and chlorophyllose ; per. 1. 

 sheathing longly subulate, with a narrower nerve. 

 Calyptra fuscous at apex. Caps, oval, regular, or 

 gibbous, short-necked, olivaceous, with eight striae, 

 sulcate when dry, lid conico-rostrate. Annulus broad, 

 double. 



Subalpine moist rocks and peaty soil. November. 



92. C. paradoxus, Wils. MS. Tufts \—\ inch high, 

 fastigiate, dull yellowish-green above, pale brown 

 below. St. with short lateral ramuli, and few rufous 

 radicles. L. erecto-patent (erecto-appressed when dry), 

 uppermost longest, slightly secund, lanceolate-subulate, 

 concave, apex usually of two teeth, with a few irregular 

 ones below on each side, nerve one-third width of 

 base. Lamina extended to apex, basal cells thin, 

 enlarged, hyaline when young, afterwards fuscous, 

 above rectangular, in 14 — 16 longitudinal rows, thick- 

 ened and quadrate towards apex. 

 Peaty soil. 



Cheviots (barren), Boyd and Hardy, 1868; Eombold^s 

 Moor, Yorkshire; Arran^ 1883 (Rev. A, Ley). 



