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irregular or sabpinnate. L. spreading, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, almost flat, thinly nerved, serrulate, cells long, 

 narrow ; per. 1. sqnarrose, lower nerveless, upper 

 oblong, linear-lanceolate, nerved. Caps, turgidly ovate, 

 curved, cernuous or horizontal, lid convex, long-beaked. 



Stones and roots in wet places. Autumn. 



Forth Dafarch, Holyhead (Wilson, 1830) ; Sussex 

 (Mitten) ; near Penzance (Curnow) ; Ireland, &o. 



494. [E. Wans, Hedw. St. prostrate, extended, 

 irregularly branched. Br. ascending. L. spreading, 

 shining, ovate-cordate, serrulate, nerve uniform, ceas- 

 ing about middle. Caps, cernuous, lid beaked as long 

 as capsule.] 



Woods, among decayed leaves. 



Sussex (Mitten). Eev. J. Pergusson refers this to 



E. Swartzii, in litt. 



Dioicous. 



495. E. Swartzii, Turn, {prcelongum, ed. 1, and Bry. 

 Bur. et Schp. Syn.). St. long, arched or procumbent, 

 often bipinnate, branches slender; st. 1. squarrose, 

 recurved, broadly cordate, and suddenly tapering to a 

 lono- point, amplexicaul, nerve carried nearly to bas.e 

 of point ; br. 1. lanceolate, acuminate, all serrate ; per. 

 1. thinly nerved. Caps, small, oval-oblong, tumid, 

 obliquely cernuous, lid with a- long, tapering, slender 

 beak. 



Moist shady banks. November. 



496. E. pumilum, Wils. St. creeping, filiform. Br. 

 slender, subpinnate, subcomplanate. L. minute, ovate- 

 lanceolate, spreading, subserrulate, faintly nerved half 

 way ; per. 1. smaller, recurved. Caps, short, roundish, 

 ovate, cernuous, on a short seta, lid rather large, with 

 an oblique beak. 



