tapering, dark green, finely serrulate, nerveless, or shortly two-nerved; caps. oblong, slightly inclined, tapering below, striate when dry; lid short conical.
Alpine rocks. S. I. VII.
479. H. (Plagiothecium) Silesiacum. Seliger. St. and branches procumbent, the latter arcuate; l. secund, mostly pointing upwards, ovate-lanceolate, longer tapering than the last, concave, distinctly serrulate, slightly and shortly two-nerved; caps. long sub-cylindrical, not striate when dry, curved, cernuous; lid conical pointed.
Stems of decaying trees, rocks, &c. IV. V.
Kent; Yorkshire.
480. H. (Plagiothecium) denticulatum. Dill. St. prostrate, with sub-fasciculate branches; l. complanate, obliquely ovate pointed, sometimes sub-serrulate at apex, margin recurved below, shortly two-nerved; caps. oblong, sub-erect; lid acutely conical.
Sub-alpine woods, banks, wet rocks, &c. Summer.
var. β. obtusifolium. l. elliptical, more or less obtuse,
slightly concave. Alpine rocks.
γ. succulentum. l. with almost plane margins: synoicous. Todmorden, Warrington.
b. Dioicous.
481. H. (Plagiothecium) elegans. Hook. St. prostrate, br. distichous, fasciculate or pinnate; l. complanate, ovate-lanceolate, tapering to a slender serrulate point, sometimes oblique, nerveless, or faintly two-nerved; caps. small
