entire, nerve ceasing below apex, margins plane; stems bearing gemmiferous cups, l. of which are obcordate; caps. (fruit not found in England) elliptical, with a red border at mouth, on a long reddish seta.
Decaying stumps and roots of trees, common. VIII. IX.
39. TETRADONTIUM. Schw.
266. T. Brownianum. Schwg. St. almost none, with long linear radical leaves or ramuli; per. l. ovate-acuminate, entire, shortly and faintly nerved; caps. oval-oblong, lid with an acute oblique beak.
Sandstone rocks. III. IV. (Wilson says VII.)
40. BUXBAUMIA. Haller.
267. B. aphylla. Hall. "Stem almost none, buried; l. lower roundish, deeply toothed, upper fringed with long ciliary processes; caps. plano-convex, roundish ovate, reddish; outer perist. irregularly sub-divided, thick and cellular." [Wilson.]
Scotland, Yorkshire, &c.; rare. V.
268. B. indusiata. Brid. "Resembling the last, but caps. more erect, not flattened on the upper surface, of uniform texture and yellowish green colour, covered with a soft membrane, which ruptures on the upper surface, the margins rolling back, somewhat like the indusium of a fern; annulus narrow." [Dr. Braithwaite, Jour. Bot., viii., 226.]
On the ground and rotten trunks, chiefly in pine woods.
Near Ballater, 1847 (Cruikshank); Craigendinnie Hill, Aboyne, 1867 (Dickie and Roy).
41. DIPHYSCIUM. W. & M.
269. D. foliosum. W. & M. St. almost none; l. long
