OETHOTEICHUM. 137 



Montrose and Corrie Mulzie. 



273. 0. patens, ^ntc^. Tufts lax, yellow-green. L. 

 spreading, recurved, from an ovate base, lanceolate, 

 margin slightly revolute, very papillose. Caps, im- 

 mersed, obovate, neck tapering, smooth, pale yellow, 

 with. 8 narrow striee, truncate, and 8-furrowed when 

 dry, lid with a short beak. Calyptra campanulate, 

 slightly hairy, seldom naked. Perist. teeth bigemi- 

 nate, pale yellow, cilia long, filiform. (Sch. Syn., 324.) 



Trees. Rare. May. 



Scotland. 



274. 0. stramineum, Horns. St. short, tufted. L. 

 spreading, from an oblong base, narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate, keeled, margin reflexed, papillose. Caps. 

 ovate-pyriform, slightly exserted, strise broad. Calyp- 

 tra large, campanulate, purple-tipped, slightly hairy. 

 Perist. 8 teeth, with 16 (sometimes only 8) cilia. 

 Vaginula hairy. 



Trees and rooks. June, July. 



England, Scotland, Wales. 



275. 0. pumilum, Swartz. {0. fallax, Br., Wils., B. 

 and S., but not Schp. Syn.). Minute, pulvinate. L. 

 lanceolate, acute, carinate, margin revolute; per. 1. 

 longer, erect. Caps, oblong, with 8 orange strise, neck 

 gradually tapering into the seta. Calyptra long, 

 shining, brown at apex. Perist. teeth 8, bigeminate, 

 yellow, densely papillose, reflexed when dry. 



Ash trees at Inverkip and Dailly, Ayrshire. 



276. 0. fallax, Schp. Syn. 827, not Bruch. (0. 

 pumilum, Dicks, Bry. Brit., B. and S., Miiller, &c.). 

 Differs from the above in having a more oblong, 

 thicker capsule, with deeper yellow strise, with its 

 neck shorter, abrupt, not gradually narrowed, and 



