A Synopsis of the British Mosses / Containing Descriptions of All the Genera and Species, (With Localities of the Rarer Ones) Found in Great Britain and Ireland, Based Upon Wilson's "Bryologia Britannica," Schimper's "Synopsis," Etc.

by Charles C. P. Hobkirk

var. β. rufescens. l. narrower reddish. γ. conica. l. ovate-lanceolate, with a short mucro, caps. narrower at mouth.

118. P. truncatula. L. St. ⅛in., l. spreading obovate-acuminate or oblong-lanceolate, with a slightly excurrent nerve; caps. obovate, truncate, with a wide mouth; lid convex obliquely rostrate.

Fallow soil. II. III.

var. β. major. caps. oval-oblong, stem smaller. γ. sub-cylindrica. l. ovate-lanceolate; nerve much excurrent; caps. sub-cylindrical.

119. P. crinita. Wils. St. ¼in. tufted; l. obovate-oblong obtuse; nerve excurrent into a very long hair-like point; caps. elliptic-oblong, scarcely contracted, calyp. smooth.

Rocky and moist places.

120. P. Wilsoni. B. & S. St. ¼in. in tufts, l. ovate-oblong, obtuse; nerve excurrent into a longish mucro; caps. elliptic-oblong, contracted at mouth; lid shortly and obliquely rostrate; calyp. rough at apex.

Sandy banks. II.

121. P. littoralis. Mitt. (Jour. Bot. IX., 4.) L. oblong-spathulate obtuse or acute, lower pale, upper green, nerve excurrent, longer in lower leaves; areolæ in upper part of leaf small obscure, smooth, lower oblong pellucid; caps. oblong-oval, mouth less than greatest diameter; lid rostrate slightly twisted; male fl. bud-like.

Aldington, near Brighton, Hastings.