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SYNOPSIS OP BRITISH MOSSES, 



Shady rocks and hedge banks. Spring. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. 



497. E. Teesdalii, 8m. St. slender, creeping. Br. 

 erect. L. subcomplanate, narrowly lanceolate, rigid, 

 slightly serrulate near apex, broadly nerved nearly to 

 apex. Caps, thickly obovate, cernuous, on a short 

 seta, lid almost as large as capsule, beaked. 



Moist shady rocks near waterfalls. March. — June. 



498. E. prselongum, Dill. (Stokesii, ed. 1, Bry. Eur. 

 et Schp. Syn.). St. densely csespitose, branches ascend- 

 ing, simple below, above densely pinnate and bipinnate; 

 St. 1. distant, acutely cordate, shortly acuminate, and 

 triquetrous, recurved; br. 1. ovate-lanceolate, erecto- 

 patent, all thinly nerved, and serrate. Paraphyllia 

 numerous, lanceolate, deltoid, erose. Caps, oblong, 

 ventricose, horizontal, olive-coloured, lid with a long, 

 straight, subulate beak, from a conical base. 



Stones and rocks in woods, &c. Autumn. 



Var. /S. Stokesii, Turner. More evidently bipinnate. 

 Br. crowded. L. cordate, acuminate, erecto-patulous. 

 Caps, ovate. 



Rocks in shady mountainous places. 



125. RHYNCHOSTEGIUm, Schp. 



a. Demissa. 



Low, slender. L. complanate, oblong-lanceolat^, 

 entire, nerveless. Caps, thin walled, with a slenderly 

 beaked lid, seta smooth. Monoicous. 



499. E.. demissum, Wils. St. depressed, filiform. 

 Br. short, slender. L. elliptic-lanceolate, acute, sub- 

 secund above, margin entire, reflexed. Caps, small, 

 narrowly elliptical, horizontal, cernuous, lid obliquely 

 rostrate. 



