Sect. IV.
314. (23) B. uliginosum. B. & S, St. ½-1in. cæspitose, branched; l. green oval-lanceolate, tapering at both ends, margin reflexed below, excurrent nerve toothed; caps. clavate unequal pendulous, tapering into the long curved seta; mouth oblique; lid convex pointed.
Wet places near streams. VIII.
315. (24) B. pallescens. Schw. St. 1-2in. branched, cæspitose, with purplish radicles below; l. ovate-lanceolate, margin reflexed, generally serrate at apex; upper with nerve scarcely excurrent, lower reddish; caps. pyriform, pendulous, tapering, contracted at mouth when dry; lid conical pointed; inner perist. with cilia.
Rocks and walls. VII. VIII.
var. β. boreale. caps. smaller, sub-erect.
γ. contextum. st. long, much branched; caps. ventricose, shorter, sub-pendulous.
δ. subrotundum. stem and l. smaller; caps. almost globose; seta curved.
316. (25) B. Sauteri. B. & S. St. cæspitose, much
branched; l. erecto-patent, ovate acuminate or oblong-lanceolate,
elongated, very concave, margins plane, nerve
thick excurrent into a mucro; wings at base with hyaline
cells; per. l. narrower; caps. slightly incurved, pendulous
solid sanguineous; lid shortly conical. [Müller, Syn. I., 280.]
Teesdale (Spruce); Scotland (Mitten).
317. (26) B. cernuum. Hedw. St. ½-1½in; tufted, branched, very radiculose; l. ovate acuminate concave, nerve much excurrent, sometimes serrulate at apex, margins
