154 SYNOPSIS OF BRITISH MOSSES. ' 



Rocks and walls in mountainous districts. August. 

 Sub-genus 2. Webera. 



L. broaderj texture lax^ comal 1. less elongate. Caps, 

 short-necked, inclined and pendulous. Internal peri- 

 stome a broad membrane, with cilia. 



a. Monoicous. Antheridia in axil of comal leaves. 



331. W. nutans, Sclireb. St. \ — 2 inches, with inno- 

 vations. L. spreading, with margins reflexed below, 

 lower ovate-lanceolate, entire, upper linear-lanceolate, 

 serrulate at apex, nerve thick, reddish, shining. Caps, 

 oblong obovate, large- mouthed, with a short neck, lid 

 small, mammillate. Perist. teeth red, pale at apex, 

 int. pale yellow, cilia as long as outer. 



Sandy heaths, &c. Spring. 



h. Monoicous or dioicous. 



332. W. cruda, Schreb. St. 1 — 2 inches, csespitose, 

 radiculose below. L. lower ovate-lanceolate, with 

 plane margins and reddish nerve, upper gradually 

 {)assing upwards into linear-lanceolate, with serrate 

 apex. Caps, oval-pyriform, from suberect to horizontal 

 or even pendulous, lid convex, apiculate. Perist. teeth 

 pale, shining, cilia bi-ternate, perfect. The leaves 

 are generally shining and transparent. Antheridia 

 in monoicous plants intermixed with archegonia, in 

 dicicous, subdiscoid axillary. 



Mountainous banks and rocks. July. 



c. Dioicous. 



333. W. annotina, Med. St. ^ — 1 inch, caespitose. 

 L. lower lanceolate, erecto-patent, entire, upper longer, 

 serrulate at apex, margins reflexed below, nerve excur- 

 rent. Caps, narrow, pyriform, with a long, taperirg 



