- lanceolate, long pointed, margin almost entire, concave,
nerveless; per. l. larger, with longer points, distinctly serrulate at apex; caps. erect elliptical, turbinate when dry, mouth wide; lid long conical pointed. [Leskea. Bry. Brit.]
Shady sub-alpine rocks, rare. Spring (?)
Teesdale, Todmorden.
485. H. (Amblystegium) atro-virens. Dicks. St. prostrate, irregularly branched, the latter slightly incurved, rigid, sub-erect; l. imbricate, somewhat secund, ovate-lanceolate, with long tapering points, margin recurved below, subserrulate above; thickly nerved almost to apex; "caps. sub-cylindrical short curved and subcernuous, lid conical."
Alpine rocks, &c., rare in fruit. Scotland. Spring.
b. Monoicous.
486. H. (Amblystegium) confervoides. B. & S. St. creeping, very slender, sub-pinnate, sparingly branched; br. capilliform; l. scattered sub-secund, more or less spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, nerveless; per. l. longer, erect; caps. cernuous, oval-oblong, slightly incurved, pale brown, semi-pellucid; lid convex, obliquely apiculate; annulus small deciduous.
Stones in shady places, limestone. Summer.
Dovedale (Dr. Fraser, 1866); Westmoreland.
487. H. (Amblystegium) serpens. Dill. St. creeping, sub-pinnate, with slender sub-erect branches; l. spreading, ovate-lanceolate, tapering into long points, entire, faintly nerved half way, or sometimes nearly to apex: caps. oblong, cylindrical or obovate, curved, cernuous, reddish at mouth; lid conical acute.
Walls, moist banks, trees, &c., common. IV. V.
