166 SYNOPSIS OF BEITISH MOSSES. 



and transparent. The only specimen I have bears no 

 fruit. 



Ben Ledi (Dr. Stirton). 



367. B. origanum, Boswell. St. elongate, 1 inch or 

 more, copiously radiculose and forming dense, soft tufts. 

 L. ovate and ovate-lanceolate, shortly pointed, scarcely 

 acuminate, concave, nerved almost to apex, cells 

 leptodermous, oblong and nearly rectangular, margins 

 plane, slightly recurved when dry, formed of a single 

 row of narrower cells. Tufts dense, foliage full green, 

 young leaves rosy-pink at summitj old and lower 

 brown. H. Boswell, in "Naturalist," N.S., v. 38, 

 1879. 



Shady old wall, Teesdale, June, 1879 (J. S. Wesley). 



2. Male flower discoid. 



368. B. Duvalii, Voigt. St. tufted, decumbent when 

 old, elongate, branched. L. patulous, remote, broadly 

 ovate- lanceolate, decurrent, cirrhate when dry, scarcely 

 nerved to apex ; per. 1. inner lanceolate, erect. Caps, 

 obovate-oblong, regular, pendulous from a long, 

 slender seta, contracted at mouth when dry, lid 

 mammillate. [Bry. Eur., iv. t. 371. Sch. Syn.,458.] 



Boggy places. August, September. 



Glen Lyon, Ben Lawers, Hartfell, Helvellyn. 



369. B. pseudo-triquetrum, Hedw. St. 1 — 3 inches, 

 branched, erect, radiculose to summit. L. lower ovate- 

 lanceolate, upper narrower and longer, concave, all 

 bordered, margins recurved, occasionally serrulate at 

 apex, and slightly decurrent, nerve sometimes excur- 

 rent. Caps, subcylindrical or elongate obconical, 

 pendulous, lid small, mammillate. 



Wet mountainous places and boggy ground. July. 



