on a long seta, geniculate at base. [Schp. Syn., 380. Bry. Eur., IV., t. 372.]
Boggy places. VI.—VIII.
Ben More; Shetland (McKinlay).
311. (20) B. Duvalii. Voigt. St. tufted, decumbent when old, elongate, branched; l. patulous, remote, broadly ovate-lanceolate, decurrent, cirrhate when dry, scarcely nerved to apex; per. l. inner lanceolate erect; caps. obovate-oblong regular pendulous from a long slender seta, contracted at mouth when dry; lid mammillate. [Bry. Eur., IV., t. 371.]
Boggy places. VIII. IX.
Glen Lyon, Ben Lawers, Hartfell, Helvellyn.
312. (21) B. pallens. Swartz. St. ¼-1in. branched; l. reddish, remote patulous ovate-lanceolate, slightly decurrent, keeled, serrulate at apex, margins thickened and recurved, nerve almost excurrent; caps. oblong pyriform, with a long tapering neck, pendulous, mouth small, but not contracted; lid small convex, pointed.
Near springs and ditches. VI.
var. β. microstomum. "caps, regular, sub-clavate, mouth
smaller."
313. (22) B. barbatum. Wils. MS. St. about 1in.
branched, slender, red, and copiously beset with reddish-brown
radicles from base to summit; l. sub-erect, ovate,
rather suddenly tapering into a longish sparsely toothed
subula, uppermost broader, more shortly pointed, spreading,
all concave, strongly nerved, margins plane, not recurved;
areolæ very lax and transparent. The only specimen I have
bears no fruit.
Ben Ledi (Dr. Stirton).
