var., β. tenuifolium. l. narrow, obscurely nerved. γ. tenellum. st. slender, scarcely branched; l. falcato-secund, distantly denticulate. δ. callistomum. l. scarcely secund, caps. erect, obovate truncated, lid almost as long as caps.
80. “D. fallax. Wils. MS. Closely resembles the last. L. more distant, with impressed wings and less elongated setaceous points, and a more dilated flattened nerve, uppermost sub-secund. Caps. nearly symmetric erect or sub-cernuous, with a shorter conical lid: dioicous.” [Dr. Braithwaite, Jour. Bot., VIII., 227.]
Banks. III. IV.
Anglesea (Wilson); Cotterall Wood (Hunt); Park Gate, Cheshire (Miss Jelly).
81. D. rufescens. Turn. St. short bright red, scarcely branched; l. linear-lanceolate, obscurely toothed, reddish, margins plane, secund, pellucid; caps. erect ovate or obovate, slightly tumid, with a conical beaked lid. Seta twisted to the left; dioicous.
Moist sandy banks. X. XI.
82. D. subulatum. Hedw. St. ½–1in. l. falcato-secund, setaceous from an oblong-lanceolate base, entire; caps. ovate gibbous oblique striate when dry, seta red; dioicous.
Moist shady sandy banks; common on the mortar of walls, &c. IX. X.
83. D. curvatum. Hedw. Cæspitose; st. bi-tripartite; l. setaceous from a shortly ovate semi-sheathing base, channelled, apex denticulate, falcato-setaceous; caps. erect or sub-erect, ovate-oblong, slightly gibbous, distinctly striate. [Sch. Syn. p. 75. Bry. Eur. vol. I.]
Walls. Autumn and Spring.