fragile when dry; generally but not always trifarious, roundish obtuse, inflated, entire, nerved almost to apex; caps. oval-oblong, curved, cernuous; lid conical.
Alpine bogs and turfy rills. VI. (?)
Sect. XI. Fastigiate, sparingly branched; l. imbricate
secund, ventricose, faintly nerved.
538. H. scorpioides. Dill. St. 3-4in. erect or procumbent,
irregularly pinnate; branches short; l. crowded,
imbricate, falcato-secund, large, roundish-ovate, ventricose,
apiculate, entire, nerveless or faintly and shortly two-nerved,
purplish brown or lurid; caps. short oblong curved, tumid,
cernuous, on a long seta; lid conical, pointed.
Bogs. V.
Sub-genus XIII. Hylocomium. St. woody, pinnate or
bipinnate, or sparingly branched; l. scariose,
shining, sulcate, thinly two-nerved, without
radicles; cells narrow, linear, broader at base;
caps. ovate or ovate-globose, coriaceous, lid
mammillate, perist. large, perfect.
a. irregularly bi-tripinnate, l. loosely imbricate; lid rostrate.
539. H. (Hylocomium) splendens. Dill. St. 2-6in.,
erect or procumbent, interruptedly bi-tripinnate, villous,
reddish; fol. reddish or fulvous green; st. l. roundish-elliptical,
with long wavy points; br. l. with a short point
or muticous—all imbricate concave serrate, shortly two-nerved,
margin recurved below; caps. ovate, curved, cernuous;
lid convex, tapering into a long beak: dioicous.
Grassy banks, woods, &c. IV.
