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Tribe 5. TEiCHOsioMACEiE. 
Sect. 1. Phascece. Capsule without operculum. 
24. Phascum. Linn. 
Calyptra variable, small, conical, or campanulate, cuculliform. Cap- 
sule spheroid, more or less attenuated at the apex or conoid. 
Leaves membranaceous, ovate, or oblong, the nerve sometimes 
excuiTent ; areolation loose, the lower cellules more elongated, 
larger, and variously chlorophyllose. Mostly annual plants, grow- 
ing gregariously on the ground. 
Diagnosis of Species. 
Capsule immersed in the leaves, . . . 1. P. cuspidatum. 
Capsule exerted, widely elliptic, apex oblique; 
calyptra cucullate. Monoicous, . . 2. P. bryoides. 
Capsule round ellipsoid, apex short. Synoi- 
COUS, . . . . . . 3. P. EECTUM. 
Capsule on curved pedicel, nutant. Synoi- 
eOUS, . . . . . . 4. P. CURVICOLLUM. 
1. P. cmpidatuyn (Schreber). De Phase, p. 8, tab. 1, f. 2. Bryol. 
Brit, p. 31, tab. 5. Bryol.Europ., vol. i., tab. 4. Muscol. Erit, 
p. 8. liabenhor., Bryothec. Europ., No. 304. Turner, Muscol. 
Hib., p. 3. P. acaulon, Linn. Sp. Plant, 1570. 
Hab. Banks and fields. Frequent in the county of Dublin, bearing 
fruit in February. The variety ^. piliferum Bryol.Brit., occurs on 
hedge banks near Baldoyle and at Howth. 
2. P. hryoides (Dicks.). Crypt, Pasc. 4, tab. 10, f. 3. Engl. Bot, tab. 
1180. BryoL Brit., p. 33, tab. 5. BryoL Europ., vol. i., tab. 
5. Briol. ItaL, p. 734. Rabenhor., Bryothec. Europ., No. 303. 
Hab. Banks and fields. Howth, D. Orr. This species is very 
rare in Ireland, the locality indicated being the only one wliere 
it has hitherto been found, and even there very sparingly. 
3. P. rectum (Wither.). Bot Arr., Ed. 4, p. 771, tab. 18, f. 1. Smith 
Fl. Brit. 3, p. 1153. Turner, Muscol. Hib., p. 4. Bryol. Brit., p. 
31, tab. 5. Schimp., Synops. Muse, p. 20. Bryella recta, Berk., 
Plandb. Brit. Mosses, p. 300. 
