- late, apiculate, serrate above, margin recurved, nerved nearly
to apex; caps. clavate-oblong or obovate pendulous; lid mammillate.
Sandy shady banks. XI. XII.
51. MNIUM. B. & S.
A. L. sharply serrated.
a. Margin cartilaginous.
338. M. affine. Bland. St. 1-3in. simple, erect, radiculose; barren shoots procumbent; l. lower oval-lanceolate, decurrent, scattered, upper much larger, crowded, oblong-elliptic pointed, border narrow, simply spinuloso-serrate, nerved nearly or quite to apex; those of barren stems roundish two-ranked; caps. ovate-oblong pendulous; lid convex, pointed: dioicous.
Shady woods, banks, walls. IV. V.
var. β. elatum. stem and seta longer; marshy places.
γ. rugicum. sterile shoots, erect, shorter; l. shorter, concave, obtusely serrate.
339. M. cuspidatum. Hedw. St. ½-1in. tufted, erect, radiculose,
barren shoots procumbent; l. lower ovate or obovate,
scattered, upper ovate-lanceolate longer and narrower; all
acuminate, with simply serrate margins; nerved nearly or
quite to apex; caps. ovate, inclined or pendulous; lid
convex obtuse: synoicous.
Shady rocks and walls. III. IV.
340. M. rostratum. Schr. St. ½-1in. decumbent at base (barren long erect or creeping); l. lower ovate, upper
