var. β. leaves longer, lanceolate; caps. smaller.
γ. Schreberianum. St. elongated, branches dichotomous; leaves distant spreading.
δ. piliferum. Pedicel curved; leaves with long white filiform points.
ε. curvisetum. Caps. laterally exserted, on a longish curved pedicel.
ζ. elatum. Upper leaves lanceolate, cuspidate caps. sub-pendulous, similar to the last.
34. P. bryoides. Dicks. St. 1/8-1/4in. simple or branched; l. lower, ovate pointed, upper elliptic ovate concave erect, margin reflexed, pointed with the excurrent nerve; caps. elliptical, with an oblique blunt point, brown, exserted. Barren fl. sometimes terminal on a short branch.
Banks and fields, rare. Spring.
var. β. leaves piliferous.
γ. curvisetum. Pedicel curved, longer.
δ. caps. roundish, pedicel very short.
ε. smaller, with piliferous leaves. (P. pusillum Schleich.)
ζ. Thornhillii. "l. spreading sub-reflexed spathulato-lanceolate, margin plane, nerve slightly excurrent; caps. narrowly elliptical, rostrate, pedicel elongated."
Sect. IV. Barren fl. naked in the axil of a perichætial leaf.
35. P. patens. Hedw. St. 1/8in. l. more or less spreading, sometimes recurved, obovate-lanceolate, serrulate near the apex, concave, nerve ceasing below apex; caps. immersed spherical pointed, pale brown, sub-sessile.
Clay banks and fields. Autumn.
