*1: Perranporth, 1861,
ES (TRU) (Paton 1969a:
734).
*2: Camel valley,
Dunmere, 1879, RVT (B) (Paton 1969a:
734).
Grows as scattered plants (often among other low
mosses), or forms small patches or low lawns. Habitat notes
from Cornwall are as follows. On damp or wet, mineral soil
(mainly acidic) in unshaded, lightly shaded or partly shaded
places. Records are from paths (e.g. on heaths), tracks,
gravelly lay-bys and gateways, soil on banks e.g. beside track
and at edge of reservoir, old copper-mine spoil, china clay
spoil, disturbed hummocks in marsh, soil over wet slate rock,
stream edge in flush above cliffs, a soil heap and edge of
path in nursery-garden. A few records were from apparently
basic sites including crevices or edges of old concrete and
thin soil or clay overlying concrete or masonry. Associates
recorded were Bryum
argenteum, Bryum
dichotomum,
Cratoneuron filicinum, Dicranella
staphylina,
Didymodon insulanus, Trichodon
cylindricus,
Fossombronia incurva, Philonotis fontana, Riccia sorocarpa, Tortula truncata,
sparse grasses.
Not seen c.fr.
