Clay and chalky heaths, rare. Autumn, Winter.
var. β. _stenophyllum_. l. shorter, linear-lanceolate, slightly serrulate.
27. P. RECURVIFOLIUM. Dicks. Minute, st. almost none; l. lingulate, rarely linear-lanceolate, erect, frequently recurved, denticulate at the apex, with a strong generally excurrent nerve; caps. roundish ovate, nearly sessile.
_b._ Mature plants without confervoid shoots.
28. P. MUTICUM. Schreb. Minute, almost stemless; l. convolute, broadly ovate, tapering pointed, concave, toothed above, nerved nearly to the apex; caps. round, reddish, erect, sub-sessile.
29. P. TRIQUETRUM. Spruce. Almost stemless; l. in three rows, lowest minute ovate nerveless, three uppermost (perichætial) cucullate, pointed, obovate, keeled, margins reflexed, denticulate above, nerve excurrent; caps. spherical, horizontal or drooping, pedicel long, slender, suddenly bent near its union with the capsule.
SECT. II. Barren fl. axillary, antheridia naked.
30. P. FLOERKEANUM. Web. & M. Almost stemless, very minute; leaves broadly ovate, tapering to a point, lower ones small nerveless, upper ones larger nerve excurrent, margins reflexed; caps. ovate-spherical, shortly beaked, immersed with sub-conical curved-pointed calyptra.
31. P. RECTUM. Sm. Stem short; l. closely crowded, erecto-patent, elliptic-lanceolate pointed with an excurrent nerve, often reddish, margins recurved; caps. exserted, roundish ovoid, on a longish straight pedicel.
Fields and banks near the coast, frequent. Winter.
32. P. CURVICOLLUM. Hedw. St. short reddish; l. erecto-patent, lanceolate, tapering, pointed with an excurrent nerve, entire, margin reflexed; caps. roundish, blunt-pointed, cernuous, exserted, on a longish curved pedicel; cal. dimidiate.
SECT. III. Barren fl. axillary, gemmiform.
33. P. CUSPIDATUM. Schreb. From ⅛ to ¼in. high, st. simple or branched; l. ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate, erect concave, keeled, with the nerve prominently excurrent; caps. roundish, immersed on a short pedicel.
Moist banks, hedges, and fields, common. III.
var. β. leaves longer, lanceolate; caps. smaller.
γ. _Schreberianum._ St. elongated, branches dichotomous; leaves distant spreading.
δ. _piliferum._ Pedicel curved; leaves with long white filiform points.