72 Wheldon : The North of England Harpidia. 



erect or sub-patent, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, gradually nar- 

 rowed into long - , usually not twisted points. Leaves of the 

 branches patent, except at the apices, where they are imbricate, 

 forming- an acute point. 



9. Stretford (59), Holt ! Southport (59), Holt. Wheldon ! ! 

 Birkdale, Ince Blundell, and Walton (59), Wheldon ! ! St. 

 Anne's (60), Wheldon ! ! Ashton (60), H. Beesley ! 



10. Strensall Common (62), Holt. Ingham ! Burrill, near 

 Bedale (65), Wheldon ! Coatham Marshes (62), Ingham. 



Note. — A very handsome state of this plant occurs at Birk- 

 dale, near Southport, with stems very long and elegantly 

 plumosely pinnate from apex to base. Mons. Renauld has for 

 the present withdrawm a provisional name given to it, as it has 

 not been found elsewhere, but it remains very constant after 

 several years' observation in the original locality. 



Forma gracilis Ren. MS. Much less robust, slender, gracile, 

 producing few branches, which are either simple or with a very 

 few short distant pinnaj. Stem leaves narrower, very distant, 

 loosely flexuose, spreading, or suberect, acuminate. Apical 

 ones convolute forming a slightly curved cusp. 



8. West of Radbourne (57), W. R. Linton \ « 



9. Southport, Rainford, and W T alton (59), Wheldon ! ! 



10. Near Scarborough and Strensall Common (62), Wheldon ! 



[Var. flexile Ren. Stems emergent, more slender, flexuose. 

 Leaves narrower, flexuose, sometimes subsecund, prolonged into 

 a very long-, fine twisted subulate point. 



To be looked for. Plants approaching it are found at South- 

 port and St. Anne's (Wheldon), Catforth (Beesley), Strensall 

 Common and Church Fenton (Ingham), but Mons. Renauld has 

 not accepted any of them as exactly his variety.] 



11. — Hypnum Sendtneri Schimp. {H. aduncum e. legitimum 

 Sanio). Dioicous. With us often deeply tinged with yellow or 

 brown, and simulating forms of H. revolvens, more rarely of the 

 deep green which Mons. Renauld describes' as its usual colour. 

 Stems erect, loosely caespitose, sometimes elongated w T hen grow- 

 ing in deeper pools. It varies greatly in size ; and very slender 

 forms occur which closely resemble some states of H. aduncum 

 {typicum). Stems simple, slender, often regularly pinnate, the 

 apices and branches hooked. Leaves crowded, regularly circinate 

 or falcate-secund throughout, glossy, from an ovate base, 

 lanceolate, longly acuminate, slightly flexuose and twisted when 

 dry, not plicate, but sometimes lightly striate when dry, entire. 

 Cells resembling those of H. aduncum , but slightly narrower on 



* Naturalist, 



