BRYUM. 163 



Banks and walls. May, June. 



Var. ;8. GEACiLENTDM, Tayl. 



358. B. alpinum, L. St. ^ — 2 inches, caespitose, 

 simple, radiciilose at base. L. erecto-patent, imbricate, 

 lanceolate, margins recurved, serrulate at apex, nerve 

 purple, excurrent into a short macro. Caps, oblong- 

 pyriform, pendulous, deep red, on a bent and arcuate 

 seta, lid mammillate. Whole plant reddish-purple and 

 shining. 



Subalpine moist rocks. Fruit rare. June. 



Var. /S. MBEiDiONALE. L. very rigid, narrower, tex- 

 ture dense, upper cells linear-hexagonal, lower longer, 

 hexagono-rectangular. 



359. B. gemmiparum, De Not. Densely tufted, 

 brownish-green, innovations variegated green. St. 

 I — 4 inch. L. imbricate when dry, lower ovate acumi- 

 nate, upper ovate- elliptic and elliptic oblong, apical 

 short, narrow, all very conca.ve, margin reflexed below, 

 nerve yellowish, ending in apex, cells rhomboid-hexa- 

 gonal, lax and quadrate at angles, longer and narrower 

 at margin. Caps, ovate or oblong pyrifonn, inclined 

 or pendulous, lid very convex, shortly apiculate. 

 Perist. teeth yellow, processes pale, cilia slender. 



Limestone, river banks, and damp places. 



April, May. 



Biver Usk, Breconshire (Eev. Aug. Ley, 1868). 

 Hitherto found only in the extreme south of Europe. 

 ["Naturalist," N.S., viii. 185, 1883, H. Boswell.J 



360. B. caespiticium, L. St. 5 — 1 inch, tufted, 

 branched, radiculose. L. ovate-lanceolate, pointed, 

 generally serrulate at apex, margin recurved but not 

 thickened, erect when dry, upper ones largest, nerve 

 much excurrent. Caps, oblong and elongate-pyriform, 



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