234 SYNOPSIS OF BEITISH MOSSES. 



slender, more or less erect, irregularly pinnate. Br. 

 drooping ; st. 1. squarrose, recurved, ovate, gradually 

 tapering and very acute, faintly striate below j br. 1. 

 narrower, less recurved and squarrose — all obsoletely 

 serrulate and shortly 2-nerved. Caps, roundish ovate, 

 drooping, lid conical, with a short, sharp point. 

 Dioicous. 



Banks and woods. November. 



Var. CALVESCENS, Wils. Br. more or less regularly 

 pinnate. St. 1. slightly broader, subsulcate, distinctly 

 serrate at apex. 



575. H. triquetrum, Linn. St. 6 inches or more, 

 rigid, reddish, erect, subpinnate. Br. long, straggling; 

 St. 1. squarrose or subsecund, striate ; br. 1. spreading, 

 scarcely striate — all triangular acuminate, from a cor- 

 date, amplexicaul base, serrulate and 2-nerved half 

 way. Caps, roundish ovate, cernuous, lid conical, 

 acute. Dioicous. 



Woods, &c. Spring. 



d. Leaves secund or falcato-secund. 



576. H. loreum, Linn. St. 6 — 12 inches, slender, 

 erect or procumbent, more or less pinnate. Br. droop- 

 ing, straggling. L. squarrose, recurved, more or less 

 secund at summit of stem and branches, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, with a long acumen, not cordate or amplexicaul, 

 plicato-striate below, shortly and faintly 2-nerved, 

 sometimes nerveless. Caps, small, roundish ovate, lid 

 conical, sharply pointed. Dioicous. 



Mountainous woods. November. 



