*1: Hayle, 1867, WC
(NMW) (Paton 1969a: 697).
*2: Crackington Haven,
1961, JAP (BBSUK) (Paton 1969a: 697). [Older
report (Seaton, EMH, in Holmes 1906, Castell 1950: 376) not
supported by specimen (Paton 1969a:
697)].
Grows as procumbent stems or forming low mats.
Habitat notes from Cornwall are as follows. Gwithian Towans:
patches on wet calcareous substrate of unshaded, flushed
ground on sandy slope above sea-cliff (with Pellia endiviifolia).
W of Bodieve: patch on loamy soil of stream bank, lightly
shaded by trees. Gwithian: steep sandy soil of bank of small
stream at edge of marshy grassland, unshaded and partly shaded
(associates Kindbergia
praelonga, Fissidens bryoides
var. bryoides,
Pellia
endiviifolia).
Not seen c.fr.