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apex laciaiate. Caps, immersed, globose, lid convex, 

 with a shorb beak. Calyptra conical, sometimes hairy. 



Rocks in mountainous districts. March. 



North Wales, Arthur's Seat, &c. 



Var. j3. LBncoPHJ]A.. L, more crowded and spreading, 

 wider, and with longer diaphanous points, 



Var. S. viEiDis. L. scarcely secund, spreading, deep 

 green, scarcely diaphanous at apex, 



Var. 6. STfiiATA. L. plicate, much, recurved, lid 

 conical. 



90. HEDWIGIDIUM, B. and 8. 



421. H. imberbe, Smith. St, 1 — 3 inches, irregularly 

 not dichotomously branched, flagelliferous. L. ovate- 

 laQceolate, acuminate, imbricate when dry, margin 

 recurved, apex not diaphanous, but slightly crenate. 

 Caps, exserted, on a sbort seta, spherical or obovate, 

 lid with a blunt, slightly oblique beak, Calyptra 

 cucullate, reddish. 



Rocks, October, November. 



Wales and Ireland, 



Fam. 2. Cryphaeae. 

 91 , CRYPH^A, Mohr. 



422. C. heteromalla, Hedw. St, 1 inch, decumbent, 

 sparingly branched, subpinnate. L. spreading, imbri- 

 cate, sligbtly recurved, broadly ovate, pointed, concave, 

 thickly nerved nearly to apex ; per. 1. elliptic, with an 

 excurrent nerve. Caps, oblong, immersed, appearing 

 secund, lid conical, pointed, Synoicous. 



Trunks of trees. 



Var. /8. AQ0ATILIS, St, elongate, L. roundish, ovate, 

 obtuse. 



Stones in running streams, or trees. May, June, 



