Rocks, Scotland. II. III.
β. urceolare. caps. urceolate; leaves with white points. γ. obtusifolium. l. all obtuse, shorter and broader. δ. incana. (G. pruinosa. Wils. MS.) more robust, per. l. broader with long hair points; caps. more elongate, per. teeth stronger, nearly entire red. [Dr. Braithwaite, Jour. Bot., N. S., vol. I., 195.] Trap rocks. King’s Park (Greville); Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh (Bell); Fife (Howie).
193. G. apocarpum. B. & S. Loosely cæspitose; l. spreading lanceolate acuminate from an ovate erect base, upper ones with white points, margins much recurved; nerve ceasing below apex; per. l. larger with a thinner nerve; caps. elliptical, not pellucid, with an oblique beaked lid; per. teeth dark red; calyptra divided at base.
Rocks and walls, sometimes on trees. XI.–III.
var. β. gracile. per. l. secund, others sub-secund or spreading, stem decumbent elongated. γ. rivulare. st. fasciculate, l. ovate-lanceolate dark green obtuse; caps. turbinate. (By streams.) δ. strictum. l. reddish brown, rigid.
194. G. maritimum. B. & S. Cæspitose, dull green or brownish; l. rigid, not hair-pointed, straight lanceolate acuminate, keeled; nerve strong, reddish brown, excurrent, margin plane; caps. obovate with a rostellate lid; per. teeth large and perforate.
Rocks near the sea. Scotland. XI. XII.
Sect. II. Gastero-grimmia. Plants very short pulvinate; caps. slightly emerging, ventricose on one side, on a short curved seta; calyptra five-lobed or cucullate.
195. G. anodon. B. & S. In small hoary cushions; l. lower minute loosely imbricate, ovate-lanceolate muticous, upper larger, broadly oblong-lanceolate concave, nerve excurrent into long serrated hair; basal cells elongate pellucid, above quadrate opaque; caps. immersed, oval gymnostomous, strongly ventricose; lid plano-convex: monoicous.
Walls and dry limestone rocks. Arthur’s Seat (Bell).