BEY DM. 161 



pendulouSj neck tapering, lid conico-convex, acutely 

 rostellate. 



Rocks and walls. Eare. June, July. 



Oxford (H. B.). 



352. B. provincialej Phil. {B. Billarderii, Schw.). 

 St. ^ — 1 inch, branched, radiculose. L. crowded in 

 tufts at top of branches and stems, ovate-lanceolate, 

 and obovate at summit of stem, serrate and plane at 

 apex, apiculate, margins recurved below, ijerve reddish, 

 shortly excurrent. Caps, pyriform, broadest below the 

 middle, tapering at neck, pendulous, lid conical, pointed. 



Hurstpierpoint, on old ant-hills. Barren. Summer. 



b. Monoicous. 



353. B. pallescens, Schleich. St. 1 — 2 in., branched, 

 csespitose, with purplish radicles below. L. lower 

 remote, ovate, nerve vanishing, upper oblong acuminate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, nerve slightly excurrent, margin 

 reflexed, generally serrate at apex. Caps, clavate 

 pyriform, pendulous, tapering, contracted at mouth 

 when dry, lid convex, pointed. Inner perist. with cilia. 



Rocks and walls. July, August. 



[Var. ^. BOEBALB. Caps, smaller, suberect. 



Yar. 7. CONTEXTUM. St. long, much branched. Caps, 

 ventricose, shorter, subpendulous. 



Var. S. S0BEOTUNDTJM. St. and 1. smaller. Caps, 

 almost globose, seta curved.] 



354. B. Sauteri, B. and S. St. csespitose, much 

 branched. L. erecto-patent, ovate acuminate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, elongated, very concave, margins entire, 

 plane, nerve thick, excurrent into a mucro, wings at 

 base with hyaline cells; per. 1. narrower. Caps, cla- 

 vate-pyriform, slightly incurved,, pendulous, solid, 



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