gathered it plentifully on a mountain at the head of Glen Dole
in the Highlands. These are the only stations at present
known; but they suffice to show that it is not, as has been
thought, a starved state of Bartramia fontana, from which it
essentially differs in the inflorescence. It grows in loose peaty
soil, in places bare of herbage, and the fruit ripens in September.
Stems tufted, decumbent at the base, ascending, slender,
not more than a quarter of an inch long, often less, bearing a
few short branches just below the perichastium. Leaves
rather crowded, lanceolate, slightly spreading, imbricated and
erect when dry, sometimes turned slightly to one side, serrated
in the upper half, the cellules rather large and oblong; nerve
rather broad, reaching almost or quite to the apex. Peri-
chaetial leaves narrower, surrounding the oblong subcylin-
drical vaginulae at the base of the slender reddish fruitstalks,
which are often two or three together, and sometimes more
numerous; they are one-third of an inch long and curved at
the top, so that the capsules are usually quite pendulous,
though sometimes horizontal, as shown in Bruch and Schim-
per’s figure. Capsule pale red, or while recent flesh-coloured,
of delicate reticulated texture, quite smooth while moist, corrugated
and somewhat glossy when dry, the small mouth
closed by a plano-convex operculum of the same colour as the
capsule. Spores rather large, rusty red, granulated. Calyp-
tra almost white, brownish at the top, dimidiate, fugacious.
This cannot easily be confounded with any other British
moss; its small size and pendulous pale red capsules distinguish
it at first sight from every British species of Bartramia.
It may be proper to notice here that Glyphocarpa and Phi-
lonotula are no longer considered by Bruch and Schimper to
be mere subdivisions of that genus, but as subgenera, equally
with Conostomum«—W. W,
At fig. 1 the ripe capsules are shown; 2, section of an unripe
capsule, showing the sporular sac attached by slender
filaments to the walls of the capsule, about thirty times magnified
; 3, vaginula with one antheridium and several para-
physes, and perichaetial leaves; 4, stem-leaves; 5, upper
portion of one more highly magnified.