156 SYNOPSIS OF BBITISH MOSSES. 



way, areolae lax, large. Caps, obovate or pyrifovm, 

 pendulous, lid conical. 



Shady banks. Rare. March, April. 



Devonshire, Cornwall, Sussex, Ireland. 



337. W. albicans, Wahl. {Wahlenbergii, Schw.). 

 Tafts soft, glaucous, green. St. 5— 1 inch, reddish, 

 ctespitose. L. lower ovate-acuminate, upper elongate, 

 lanceolate, all serrate at apex, margins scarcely reflexed, 

 areolae loose. Caps, broadly pyriform, wibh a shorb 

 neck, and wide-mouthed when dry, subpendulous. 

 Annulus none or imperfect. Perist. teeth large, inner 

 with cilia, lid small, conical. 



Wet banks and 'rocks. May. 



72. ZIERIA, Schp. 



338. Z. julacea, Sch. {B. Zierii, Dicks.). Silvery- 

 reddish tufts. St. ^ — 2 inches. Branches julaceous. 

 L. roundish, ovate-acuminate, entire (comal oblong, 

 lanceolate), margins not recurved, not nerved to apex, 

 areolae lax, chlorophyllose at base only. Caps, large, 

 clavate-pyriform, gibbous, with a long, slender, taper- 

 ing neck, incurved, cernuous, lid small, conical, acute. 

 Inner perist. longest, with imperfect cilia. 



Crevices of mountainous rocks. October, November. 

 England, Scotland, Ireland. 



339. Z. demissa, Hornsch. St. ^ inch, tufted ; st. 1. 

 ovate-lanceolate, nerve vanishing, those of the coma 

 oblong, lanceolate, acuminate, margin recurved, nerve 

 excurrent ; per. 1. lanceolate, with longer points, areolae 

 lax. Caps, clavate-pyriform, much incurved, cernuous, 

 seta " curved above like a swan's neck." Inner perist. 

 longest. 



Rocks. Rare. August, September. 



Breadalbane Mountains, 



