long, concave at base, sometimes almost secund; caps. roundish, immersed, pale brown, with an oblique beak.
Banks and fields, chiefly limestone. Spring.
40. P. multicapsulare. Smith. St. 1/2in., loosely tufted; leaves distant, alternate, spreading, lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, with an excurrent nerve and plane margin; per. l. longer and broader, erect, incurved; capsule ovoid tapering to an oblique short beak, on a longish pedicel, sometimes two together.
Fields, &c., rare. III.
var. β. Mittenii. Stems fragile, l. shorter, acute, recurved; p. l. smaller; caps. on a longer pedicel.
41. P. rostellatum. Brid. St. 1/8-1/4in, tufted; l. linear-lanceolate, spreading obtuse, nerve excurrent, margin plane; caps. olive-brown ovoid elliptical with a straight beak; pedicel equalling caps. in length: a smaller plant than the last.
Dried beds of pools, &c. Autumn, Spring.
5. GYMNOSTOMUM. Hedw.
Sect. I. Infl. dioicous, margin of l. reflexed or plane, not incurved.
a. St. short, per. l. sheathing; caps. elliptic oblong, narrow at mouth, lid conical, annulus large persistent.
42. G. tenue. Schrad. St. tufted; l. lingulate, sub-*erect, upper ones longest entire, nerved nearly to apex; caps. pale brown, lid obtuse.
Sandstone rocks and walls. VII. VIII.
