OETHOTEICHUM. 133 



linear-lanceolate, without a broad base, nerve extendina: 

 to apex or exserted, where it is generally covered with 

 gemmffi, crisped when dry. Fruit not known. 

 Rocks and trees. Generally near the sea. 



c. Strictifolice. 



262. TJ. HutcMnsise, Sm. St. about | inch, tufted. 

 L. erecto-patent, imbricate and rigid when dry, broadly 

 lanceolate, nerved to blunt apex, margin reflexed. 

 Caps, clavate-pyriform, with eight broad striae, slightly 

 contracted at mouth when dry, apophysis tapering. 

 Calyptra large, very hairy. Perist. 16 teeth in pairs, 

 with 8 short cilia, sometimes wanting. 



Mountainous rocks. Spring. 



Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England. 



46. OETHOTEICHUM, Hedw. 

 a. Anomalae. 



Erect, dichotomous. L. solid, straight when dry, 

 basal cells lax, hyaline. Caps, ovate or oblong, 

 exserted. 



1. Perist. simple, or the internal rudimentary. 



263. 0. anomalnm, Hedw. Sp. Muse. (now-Bry. Brit.). 

 St. erect, simple, slightly branched. L. lower patulous, 

 remote, upper erecto-patent, lanceolate from an ovate 

 base, margin revolute, papillose, apical cells minute, 

 lotundate-hexagonal. Caps, ovate-oblong, 16-striate. 

 Calyptra brownish, hairy. Perist. t. pale, equidistant, 

 erect when dry. [Bry. Eur., iii. t. 210. Schp. Syn., 

 308] 



Trap rocks. Summer. 



Aberdour, Fifeshire (Dr. Wood) ; Conway. 



264. 0. saxatile, Brid. (0, anomalum, Bry. Brit,, 



