Wheldon : The North of England Harpidia. 



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Branch leaves often small, narrowly linear ; flexuose-spreading, 

 giving" it a handsome plumose appearance. Stem-leaves falcate. 

 9. Over Wyresdale (60), Wilson and Wheldon ! 



11. W^earhead (66), Ingham ! ! ' Bien caracterize,' Ren. 

 Strensall Common (62), Ingham ! ! Coatham Marshes (62), 

 Ingham!! 'Ad forma inandata accedens/ Ren. 



Section II.— Leaves Truncate at the Base, not 

 Auricled. 



H. vernicosum Lindb. Dioicous. In large tufts, pale 

 yellow, passing to red or brown. Stems erect, rigid, pinnate, 

 hooked. Leaves glossy, secund, hamato-reflexed from the 

 middle, or at the point only, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 concave, with a rapidly-contracted short .recurved canaliculate 

 acumen, entire, strongly sulcate, neither decurrent nor auricled. 

 Nerve short, flexuose, reaching a little beyond the middle. 

 Cells narrowly vermicular, flexuose, subobtuse, about fifteen 

 times as long as wide, about two or three rows at the base 

 coloured of a red-brown, with incrassate walls, rounded quad- 

 rate, one or two rows above these narrowly oblong or sublinear. 

 Perichaetial bracts lanceolate, deeply sulcate, lower recurved, 

 upper erect, nerved. Capsule oblong, arcuate, subhorizontal, 

 contracted below the mouth, on a reddish seta twisted to the 

 left. Annulus broad. Peristome teeth finely punctate. The 

 cuticular cells of the stem often adhere to the bases of the leaves 

 when they are detached, and may be mistaken for true auricles. 



8. Kinder Scout (57), Holt ! 



9. Wybunbury Bog (58), W. Wilson ! (ex herb. E. C. Horrell). 

 10. Mickle Fell (65), Wheldon ! 



12. Head of Kentmere (69), and near Haweswater and Gras- 

 mere (69), Binstead. 



Var. majus Lindb. Much more robust (as large as H. 

 Wilsoni var. hcimatuni), fuscescent. Stems flexuose, distantly- 

 pinnately branched. Leaves larger, less falcate, often only 

 curved at the point in the lower leaves, terminal strongly 

 hooked, sometimes faintly striate. Nerve wider, less flexuose. 

 Cells longer, the marginal narrower. 



5. Longmynd (40), R. de G. Benson ! ! 



9. Bog near Docker (60), Albert Wilson ! ! 



Mons. Renauld states that these latter accord well with 

 specimens from the North of Europe received from Dr. Sanio. 



H. revolvens Swartz. Monoicous and dioicous. In large, 

 soft, green, brown, or purple tufts, glossy. Leaves dense, 



1902 March 3. 



