*1: Chywoone Grove,
Paul, 1839, WC (OXF) (Paton 1969a:
699).
*2: Fowey, 1905, RWS
(TRU) (Paton 1969a:
699).
Commonly as pure patches, forming low turfs, but
sometimes intermixed with other bryophytes. Habitat notes from
Cornwall are as follows. On rocks of tops and sides of old
walls and 'hedges' shaded or part shaded by deciduous trees,
on horizontal, sloping and vertical surfaces with mosses.
Mortared granitic rock of old bridge over small river in
deciduous woodland, patches on vertical faces, in part shaded,
humid location. Associates include Kindbergia praelonga,
Hypnum
cupressiforme var.
cupressiforme, Lejeunea lamacerina,
Plagiochila
asplenioides. Faces of boulders (granitic) in and near
rivers and streams (well above water level) and on firm soil
with mosses beside streams and in flood zone beside R. Tamar,
part shaded or shaded by deciduous trees. With Sciuro-hypnum
plumosum, Racomitrium aciculare.
Thin soil on slope under trees above river bank. Steep soil
and thin soil over rocks in woodland, and on roadside and
laneside banks partly to well shaded by deciduous trees (near
Kindbergia
praelonga, Fissidens bryoides
var. bryoides,
Lunularia
cruciata). Soil on stream banks under deciduous trees. One
record with other bryophytes low on ruined of wall of mine
building.
Occasionally? c.per. (immature 10). Not seen
c.fr.
