shorter than the capsule. Calyptra pale. Male flowers on
separate plants, very small, roundish ovate; the perigonial scale
ovate, very concave, nerveless. Anthers about 6, with a few
short paraphyses We have not veonrt ujoreindt etod pfuilbalmisehn ttsh.is as new without having
cfiartsutm c,a rEenfugl.l yB coot.m t.p ared it with H. Teesdalii, Smith (H. intri- 202). That species has been little understood:
Bridel, who had never seen the moss, strangely supposes
it to be a variety of H. riparium; and even Mr. Teesdale, who
first found it near Matlock, appears to have subsequently confounded
it with H. serpens. It is identical with H. Teneriffee, Montagne, and scarcely differs, if at all, from H. rigidulum, Bruch:—it is also H. Schleicheri, var. /3. curviselum, Schwaegr.
and Bridel, and corresponds with an authentic specimen of
pBu rmidileulm’s H. laxopennatum. It differs essentially from our H. in the following particulars:—Inflorescence monoicous.
Leaves longer, nai'rower, more rigid, shrinking less when dry,
lManucseeo. lHateib, .o pft.e n linear-lanceolate, (as well described in Turn. 150,) concave, the margin not at all reflexed,
nerve broader, thicker, reaching almost or quite to the apex.
Foliage more constantly distichous; and the fruit ripens in
April. It appears to be confined to rocky and submountain-
ous districts, occurring on moist shady rocks in North Wales,
at Sedbergh in Yorkshire, and in Ireland. At Matlock it is
sEanidg .t oB ohta.v e been found upon trees. The specimen figured in has the leaves a little broader than usual, almost as
in H. rigidulum, which we now consider to be only a variety
of Hth.i sp rsepeelocniegsu.m in many of its characters comes very near to H. pumilum, but is permanently distinct in the cordate semi-
amplexicaul stem-leaves, whose margin at the base is always
reflexed and more or less decurrent. A small variety of it
grows with H. pumilum at Winwick and elsewhere, and is
known at once by its strongly serrated leaves which do not
shrHin.k p uwmheilnu mdr y. It is usually a much larger moss. varies (as in the Cork and Sussex specimens)
with leaves more crowded, scarcely if at all distichous, more
rigid and more evidently serrulate, and with longer lids. In
thiHs s. taStew aitr tczoimi vesa rn. e(a3,r eTr utron H. M. purseee.l oHngiubm. .p. 151. t. 14. f. 2,
may belong to our moss; but specimens given to us as authentic
by Mr. Borrer, but not exactly corresponding with the figure
criven, have the leaves truly distichous, elliptic-lanceolate, with
farger cellules, and more evidently serrated. We have found
a similar moss near Bangor (N. Wales), in August 1843, with
a few old capsules, but not in a fit state to determine the
queFsitgio. n1. —a, Wste. mW le. af; b, leaf from a branch; c, male flowers
and antheridia: Fig. 2, H. Teesdalii', and Fig. 3, H.prcelon~ gum, for comparison.