QEIMMIA. 121 



226. G. ovata, W. and M. St. \ inch or more, 

 branched, fastigiate. L. spreading, erect when dry, 

 from an oblong, concave base, lanceolate, tapering into 

 a roughish hair-point, nerve broad, indistinct, margin 

 recurved below, basal cells scarcely sinuous. Caps, 

 ovoid, erect, exserted, reddish-brown, annulus large, 

 lid obliquely rostellate, with a groove round its base. 

 Perist. teeth narrow, cleft and perforate. 



Alpine rocks. October — March. 



Breadalbane and Clova, Snowdon, Charnwood Forest, 

 &c. 



2. Dioicous. 



227. G. leucophea, Grev. Dark green, hoary tufts. 

 St. \ inch. L. erect, spreading, when dry closely 

 imbricate, upper ovate or elliptical concave, with very 

 long hair-points and plane margins, lower ones smaller, 

 muticous. Caps, smooth, elHptical or oblong, erect, 

 exserted, with a short conico-rostellate lid, and broad 

 annulus. 



Scotland, Devon, &c. April. 



h. Calyptra cucullate, dioicous. 



228. G. commutata, Hueh. Loosely tufted, blackish- 

 green, hoary at top. St. slender, flexuose, naked below. 

 L. lower small, loosely imbricate, upper much longer, 

 ovate lanceolate, from a broad upright base declining, 

 shortly hair-pointed ; per. 1. three internal, erect, 

 sheathing, longly pointed, basal cells rectangular, 

 upper quadrate. Caps, ovate or ovate-globose, erect, 

 smooth, exserted, lid acutely and obliquely rostrate, 

 annulus broad. [Schp. Syn., p. 263. Dr. Braithwaite, 

 I.C., 198.] 



Dry quartzose reeks. Spring. 



