150 SYNOPSIS OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



erect or recurved. L. erecto-patent, straight, rigid, 

 lanceolate, finely serrulate, nerve excurrent, shortly 

 aristate. Caps, large, subspherical, furrowed when 

 dry, and cernuo'us, lid conical, pointed, seta erect. 

 Inner perist. sometimes imperfect. 



Shady banks, mountains. September, October. 



320. P. adpressa, Fergusson. "Plant widely caespi- 

 tose, erect, 2 — 3 inches, either dull glaucous green or 

 reddish. L. papillose, erect when moist, with one 

 wide plica on each side of nerve, incurved towards 

 apex, slightly twisted when dry, widely ovate from an 

 amplexicaul base, not acuminate, apex either obtuse or 

 cucullate, with a very slight mucro, or in the more 

 slender forms rather acute, margin denticulate, slightly 

 reflexed, nerve very thick, continuous. Areolae small, 

 ovoid above, shorter and wider towards the base." 

 [G. B. Hunt. Mem. Lit. and Sci. Soc, Manchester, 

 vol. V. 102, 1872.] 



Glen Prossen, &c., Glova (Fergusson) ; Glas Mheal, 

 Perthshire, 2500 feet (Hunt). 



321. P. fontana, Srid. St. 1 — 6 inches, with reddish- 

 black radicles. L. ovate-acuminate, short and appressed 

 or lanceolate secund, or spreading and longer (gene- 

 rally plicate at base), nerve almost excurrent; per. 1. 

 ■obtuse, nerveless. Caps, subglobose, large, furrowed 

 when dry. 



Springs and wet places. June. 



[Var. /3. ALPiNA. St. short. L, ovate-lanceolate, 

 mucronate. Alps.] 



Var. 7. FALCATA. L. falcato-secund, nerve thick. 



Var. S. c^spiTosA, Wils. Densely casspitose, shorter. 

 L. shorter lanceolate, subimbricate, or longer, lanceolate, 

 more or less secund, not plicate, apical branches short. 



