BAEBULA. 105 



on a long, reddisli seta, lid with a subulate beak. 

 Dioicous. 



Clay banks and hedges. Spring. 



Var. /8. CUSPIDATA. St. shorter. L. narrower, with 

 a longer mucro. 



Var. ,7. APicuLATA. L. spreading, recurved, mucro 

 long. 



178. B. fallax, Hedw. St. ^ — 1 inch, c^spitose. 

 L. lanceolate from a broadish base, keeled, margin 

 recurved, slightly papillose, somewhat squarrose, gra- 

 dually tapering and nerved to apex ; per. 1. sheathing 

 halfway, thence narrowly lanceolate, patent. Caps, 

 variable both in size and shape, usually subcylindrical, 

 with an obtuse, rostrate lid, often as long as itself. 

 Dioicous. 



Clay and limestone banks and walls. 



October — December. 

 Var. y8. BEEViCAULis, Schw. St. short, simple. L. 

 closely set, patent, margins subundulate. Caps, shorter, 

 ■ as also the perist. and lid. 



Parapet of bridge, Earlswood, Warwick (J. E. 

 Bagnall, Dec, 1883). 



Var. 7. BEEViFOLiA. St short, simple. L.. crowded, 

 patent, margin subinvolute. Caps, shorter. 



179. B. recurvifolia, Schp. [refiefca, Brid. ; T. fallax, 

 5. Bry. Brit.] Tufts always of a ferruginous tint. St. 

 loosely csespitose. L. tristichous, recurved, and fal- 

 cate, slightly twisted, from an oblong wide base, 

 lanceolate, keeled, strongly papillose on both sides, 

 margin reflexed below, nerve brownish, vanishing 

 below ap'ex. Caps, erect, cylindrical, regular, lid 

 subulate, beaked. Dioicous. 



Calcareous rocks and walls. Ear'e in fr. Autumn. 



