- tigiate; l. linear-lanceolate, rigid, denticulate at base, sub-*erect,
margin plane, with a strong slightly excurrent nerve; teeth of per. incurved, not barred, sometimes perforated; caps. erect, reddish; lid beaked.
Dripping limestone rocks. VI. VII.
53. W. calcarea. Müll. St. short, simple; densely tufted, radiculose at base; l. lower small ferruginous, erecto-patent, narrowly lanceolate; upper larger deep green lineal-lanceolate, rather obtuse concave, stoutly nerved nearly to apex, margin minutely crenulate; per. l. lanceolate concave acute; caps. oblong sub-cylindric short-necked erect, on a pale yellow seta, lid conical subulate.
var. δ. brevifolium. Schpr. Slender branched; l. lower
very minute distant, upper crowded ovate-lanceolate,
recurved above; caps. oval.
Damp rocks and walls. Blackhall, nr. Banchory, Dee
side. Mr. Sim. var. δ. only and barren. [Dr. Braithwaite.]
54. W. commutata. Mitt. "L. from a sub-oblong base lanceolate, narrowed, keeled with the nerve, which vanishes below apex, cells nearly all elongated and pellucid; per. l. similar"; caps. turbinate, lid with a very oblique longish beak.
Alpine rocks, Nant-y-Fydd, Wrexham (Mr. Bowman.)
55. W. truncicola. De Not. In large dense bright green tufts; st. 1-2in. dichotomous, reddish, radiculose below; l. erect when moist and often secund on the young shoots, rather soft, papillose at back, from a narrowly lanceolate base gradually subulate channelled, thinly nerved nearly to apex, margin not revolute, sharply denticulate above and
