*1: Near Penzance,
1867, WC (CMM) (Paton 1969a:
690).
*2: Lesnewth, 1961, JAP
(BBSUK) (Paton 1969a: 690). [Reported from
Fowey Harbour, JS (Withering 1801), but no specimen traced:
Paton 1969a: 690].
+2: Shaded pathside
bank, 130 ft alt., cemetery east of Morval Church, N. of E.
Looe, SX260567, 17 July 2008, JAP 8284.
Habitat notes from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
are as follows. Colonist on damp often clayey soil on ground
recently made bare, and on damp track edges, banks near canal,
beside track and beside a path, unshaded or lightly or partly
shaded e.g. by woodland or scrub (near Atrichum tenellum, Dicranella
heteromalla, Fossombronia pusilla,
Pleuridium
subulatum, Pseudephemerum
nitidum, Riccia
subbifurca). Damp soil in gardens, unshaded to lightly or
part shaded. In damp stubble fields, fallow arable, flax
stubble (once in horticulture) (with Anthoceros punctatus,
Barbula convoluta,
Bryum dichotomum,
Bryum rubens, Dicranella
schreberiana, Dicranella staphylina,
Didymodon
insulanus, Trichodon cylindricus,
Entosthodon
fascicularis, Ephemerum
minutissimum, Fossombronia pusilla,
Tortula truncata,
Poa annua, Veronica persica).
Mainly bare patches of soil in damp pastures and grass leys
(with Anthoceros
punctatus, Brachythecium
mildeanum, Brachythecium
rutabulum, Philonotis caespitosa,
Fossombronia
pusilla). Near-vertical damp clayey soil of bank under
Sycamore trees at edge of pasture. Steep damp soil of lightly
shaded bank above stream (with Anthoceros punctatus,
Dicranella
heteromalla, Fossombronia pusilla,
Lunularia cruciata,
Nardia scalaris, Pellia epiphylla, Pohlia annotina). Bare
disturbed soil patch on laneside bank, part shaded. Colonist
on bare patches amongst damp china clay spoil. Abundant on
clayey spoil-banks among low grasses and in bare patches at
edge of china-clay quarry. Few records of sparse patches on
mud exposed in inundation zones beside reservoirs, with sparse
low vegetation, unshaded (with Trichodon
cylindricus).
Antheridia seen 1, 3-7, 10-12; capsules immature
1-7, 11; dehiscing 5,
6.
