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  • late to ovate, acuminate, doubly spinuloso-serrate; per. l.

lanceolate; caps. ovate or oval, cernuous; lid large conical, with a short beak: synoicous.

Moist shady rocks and banks. V. VI.

345. M. hornum. L. St. 1-3in. simple; l. linear-lanceolate, acuminate, rigid, slightly decurrent, doubly spinuloso-serrate, nerve also spinulose, not reaching apex; caps. large oblong-ovate, cernuous; lid convex mammillate; seta curved at summit: dioicous.

Shady moist banks and woods, common. V.

346. M. undulatum. Hed. St. 1-3in. decumbent at base, sometimes branched; l. oval-oblong or ligulate, upper very long, all undulate, decurrent, and simply serrate, nerved generally to apex; caps. generally several together, oval or oblong pendulous; lid convex, pointed: dioicous.

Moist shady banks and woods. IV. V.


b. L. without a cartilaginous border.

347. M. stellare. Hed. St. ½-2in. erect; l. oval-acuminate or ovate-lanceolate, simply serrate, decurrent, scarcely nerved to apex; caps. solitary, ovate, horizontal or cernuous; lid convex blunt: dioicous. (Does not fruit with us.)

Shady rocks and banks. Yorkshire, Surrey. V. VI.


B. L. nearly entire, not bordered.

348. M. cinclidioides. Hueb. St. 2-4in. sometimes with slender branches; l. lower oval obtuse, scarcely pointed, upper large oval ligulate obtuse (marginal cells