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SYNOPSIS OP BRITISH MOSSES. 



Caps, oval or subpyriform, horizontal, lid conical, with 

 a bluat beak. Dioicous. 



Woods, shady banks, &c. Summer. 



Yorkshire, Sussex, &c. 



386. M. riparium, Mitt. MS. St. i — 1 inch, reddish 

 below. L. orbiculate or broadly elliptical, much de- 

 current, apex rounded and tipped with a mucro, lower 

 obscurely bordered, upper strongly so, doubly spinuloso- 

 dentate, nerve thin but distinct, reddish, reaching 

 apex, where it is spinulose at back, areolae large, hexa- 

 gonal, chlorophyllose. Caps., &c., as in serratum. 



Watery places. June. 



Sussex (Mitten). 



387. M. spinosum, Voigt. St. robust, subligneous. 

 Branches flagelhform, subarcuate. L. lower small, 

 squamiform, obtuse, margins plane, upper obovate or 

 oblong, acuminato-spathulate, larger, crisped when dry, 

 serration bigeminate, nerve reddish, excurrent. Caps, 

 oval-oblong, reddish-brown, slightly incHned or hori- 

 zontal, lid conical, with an obtuse beak. Dioicous. 



Summer. 

 Roots of trees, and shady subalpine rocks. Rare. 

 Ben Lawers (McKinlay). 



h. Leaves scarcely bordered, serrate or entire. 

 * Lid convexo- conical, with or without apiculns. 



388. M. stellare, Hedw. St. | — 2 inches, erect. L. 

 oval-acuminate or ovate-lanceolate, simply serrate, 

 decurrent, scarcely nerved to apex. Caps, solitary, 

 ovate, horizontal or cernuous, lid convex, scarcely 

 apiculate. Dioicous. (Does not fruit with us.) 



Shady rocks and banks. May, June. 



Yorkshire, Surrey, &c. 



