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2. Teteodontium Scliwceger. 
Capsule as in Tetraphis, only the teeth are shorter. Plant minute, 
with very short stems, bulb-like at the base, producing a few 
small ovate-lanceolate leaves, and sometimes slender flagelliform 
branches. 
1. T. Brownianum (Dicks.). Bryol. Brit., p. 195, tab. 8. Tetraphis 
Browniana, Muscol. Brit., Ed. 2, p. 33, tab. 1. Greville, Scot. 
Crypt. Fl., tab. 169. Grimmia Browniana, Engl. Bot., tab. 1422. 
Hab. Shady rocks in a ravine near the head of Kelly's Glen, 
Dublin. In a glen near Ballycastle, Antrim, in fine fruit, 
July, 1835. Dry, shaded rocks at Lough Bray. Elor. Hib. 
This singular and very minute Moss is rare in Ireland, though it 
may be occasionally overlooked, owing to its smallness and the 
places where it grows. 
Tribe 2. Diceane^. 
Sub-tribe 1. BEUcniEiE. Lid of capsule adnate not separatiag. 
3. Pleuetdium. S chimp. 
Plants small; stems short; leaves subulate setaceous; areolation oblong 
hexagonal, cells rather large and loose ; capsule globular ; lid not 
separating ; calyptra conic campanulate. 
^' Inflorescence monoicous. 
Leaves lanceolate, nerve vanishing below the 
apex, . . . . . . . 1. P. NiTiDTJM. 
Leaves subulate, nerve reaching to the apex, . 2. P. stjbulattjm. 
Leaves subulate, Male flowers gemmiform, . 3. P. alteenieolittm. 
1. P. nitidum (Hedw.). Babenhorst Bryothec Europ. '^o. 153. 
Bryol. Europ., CorolL, p. 6, tab. 9, P. axillare, Lindberg, ^'De 
muscis cleistocarpis," Helsingfors, 1863. Phascum nitidum, 
Bryol. Brit., p. 36, tab. 4, P. axillare, Muscol. Brit. Ed. 2, p. 
7, tab. 5. 
Hab. Moist banks near Belfast, Templeton. ISTear Rathpeacon and 
Ballynoe, Cork Elor., Cork. Ballincollig Castle, Cork, Isaac 
Carroll. 
2, P. suhulatum (Schimp.), Bryol. Europ., vol. i. tab, 9, Coroll., p. 6, 
Phascum subulatum (Linn.), Engl. Bot., tab. 2177. Muscol. 
Brit. Ed. 2, p. 6, tab. 5. 
Hab. Clay banks, pasture fields, and shady banks, in many parts of 
Ireland. 
