caps. cylindrical, erect, on a long seta, and with a blunt lid: dioicous.
Limestone hills. S. E. Autumn.
82. LESKEA. Hed.
A. L. not striate.
a. l. nerveless, or faintly two-nerved.
419. L. moniliformis. Wahl. St. ½in. slender tufted, branched; l. imbricate, nearly round, obtuse, very concave, nerveless, denticulate at base; per. l. ovate-lanceolate; caps. almost erect, small, oval-oblong, with a short beak.
Alpine rocks. E. S. I. Summer.
420. L. apiculata. Hueb. [Myurella.] Loosely cæspitose, soft and fragile; l. loosely imbricate or patent, ovate, very concave, often with a recurved apiculus, opaque; perist. pale, small. [Bryol. Eur., v. t. 560.]
Moist rocky ground. Ben Lawers. Summer.
421. L. micans. Wils. [Hypnum. Bry. Brit. 402.] St. prostrate, very slender, filiform, branched; l. almost orbicular, concave, apiculate, serrulate, sometimes faintly two-nerved at base; fruit not known.
Shady rocks. S. of Ireland.
422. L. polyantha. Hedw. Stem short creeping, branched; branches incurved above; l. crowded sub-secund, ovate-acuminate, suddenly apiculate, with apiculus sometimes slightly serrulate, nerveless; caps. elliptic-oblong erect, broader below, with a conical bluntish lid and long calyptra: monoicous.
Trees. E. S. W. VII. VIII.
