222 SYNOPSIS OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



patent. Caps, subcylindricalj curved, pale reddish- 

 brown, lid large, yellowish, with an oblique beak. 



July. 

 Lime'stone and other rocks. Barren in England. 



Sub-genus 6. Homomallmm. 



St. creeping, csespitose, pinnate. L. curved upwards, 

 secund, areolae loosely rhomboid. Caps, incurved, 

 cemuous, compressed below mouth when dry. 



543. H. inourvatum, Schrad. St. short, slender. 

 Branches curved upwards. L. ovate-lanceolate, taper- 

 ing, all pointing upwards, entire or serrulate at apex, 

 nerveless or shortly 2-nerved. Caps, small, ovate, 

 horizontal, lid short, conical, acute. Monoicous. 



Shady walls and stones. June. 



Sub-genus 7. Drepanium. 



St. more or less . regularly pinnate. L. faldform- 

 sexund, two or singly nerved or nerveless, areola nar- 

 rowly linear, quadrate at basal angles. Paraphyllia not 

 numerous. Caps, subcylindrical, incurved, lid large, 

 shortly rostellate. 



a. Monoicous. 



[544. H. Canariense, Mitt. (Journ. Linn. Soc. viii.). 

 Tufted. St. procumbent. Br. pinnate. L. falcato- 

 secundj compressed, ovate-lanceolate or oval-lanceolate, 

 gradually acute, margins sharply serrulate upwards, 

 shortly 2-nerved, cells elongate, a few more obscure at 

 the angles. Caps, shortly oval, with a large mouth, 

 lid conical-acuminate. Dioicous. (Like H. cupressi- 

 forme, var. mamillatus, but differs in the sharp serrula- 

 tion of the leaves, &c.) 



"Killarney, 1829, Wilson."] 



