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  • rower, less recurved, and squarrose—all serrulate and shortly

two-nerved: caps. roundish-ovate, drooping; lid conical, with a short sharp point: dioicous.

Banks and woods. XI.

544. H. (Hylocomium) triquetrum. Dill. St. 6in. or more, rigid, reddish, erect, sub-pinnate; br. long straggling; st. l. squarrose or sub-secund, striate; br. l. spreading, scarcely striate—all triangular acuminate from a cordate, amplexicaul-base, serrulate and two-nerved half way; caps. roundish ovate, cernuous; lid conical, acute: dioicous.

Woods, &c. XI.


d. L. secund, or falcato-secund.

545. H. (Hylocomium) loreum. Dill. St. 6-12in. slender, erect, or procumbent, more or less pinnate; br. drooping straggling; l. squarrose, recurved, more or less secund at summit of stem and branches, ovate-lanceolate, with a long acumen, not cordate or amplexicaul; plicato-striate below; shortly and faintly two-nerved, sometimes nerveless; caps. small roundish ovate; lid conical, sharply pointed: dioicous.

Mountainous woods. XI.


84. OMALIA. Brid.

546. O. trichomanoides. Dill. St. about 1in. irregularly pinnate; l. crowded, sub-secund, complanate, oval, serrulate at obtuse rounded apex, faintly nerved half way; caps. small sub-cylindrical, sub-erect, lid with an oblique beak.

Trunks of trees and shady rocks. X. XI.


85. NECKERA. Hedwig.

547. N. complanata. Bry. Eur. St. 1-2in. pinnate; br.