BEYUM. 167 



Var. S. COMPACTUM. Tuffcs compact. Br. 1. broader, 

 flaccid. Caps, shorter, obovate. 



370. B. neodamensej Itdg., Eegensb. FL, 1841, i. 

 p. 360. St. slender, csespitose and tomentose, elongate, 

 reddish and almost naked below, leafy above. L. 

 lower roundish, oblong, obtuse, apex and margins 

 involute, upper crowded, shortly oblong, inflated at 

 base, margins revolute below, all cucullate. Caps, 

 oblong-pyriform, pendulous, on a long seta, lid shortly 

 apiculate. Summer. 



Southport Sands, where liable to inundation. 



371. B. turbinatum, Hedw. St. \ — 3 inches, some- 

 times branched. L. lower ovate-lanceolate, upper 

 longer and narrower, concave, margins narrowly bor- 

 dered, recurved, nerve rufous, excurrent in a mucro. 

 Caps, globoso-pyriform, pendulous, when dry contracted 

 at month, reddish-brown, lid convex, shortly apicalate. 



June, July. 

 Ashton-under-Lyne, Fakenham, Norfolk, Oxford, &c. 



372. [B. Schleicheri, Schwg. Plants with fastigiate, 

 tumid branches, straw-green. L. lower small, remote, 

 ovate, shortly acuminate, mucronate, concave, upper 

 ovate-oblong, acuminate, reddish nerve excurrent into 

 a mucro, or shortly cuspidate, apex denticulate, margin 

 narrowly bordered, plane or slightly recurved. Caps, 

 obconico-pyriform, constricted below mouth when dry, 

 on a long seta.J 



Var. 7. LATiFOLiUM. Broadly csespitose, tumid, green. 

 L. broadly ovate, rotundate-obtuse, or oblong-ovate, 

 subacuminate, nerve excurrent, shortly mucronate, 

 apex cucullate, margin erect, narrow bordered. 



Variety only found in Britain in boggy places. 



Ben More; Shetland (McKinlay). August, 



