*1: Porth Towan, 1940,
EWJ (Paton 1969a: 699). This record of material reidentified
by JAP is older than that listed as new for vc1 and for
Britain by Paton (1961a, 1961b: 152) [calcareous soil, refuse
from mine, Gear, Perranporth, May 1960,
JAP].
At Gear Sands it is locally frequent, on vertical,
sloping or horizontal surfaces of mainly clayey substrates in
an old mining area amongst dune grassland, growing on steep
banks, bare patches among grassland and on little-used old
paths and tracks; usually associated with Leiocolea turbinata,
also varied small mosses. A much smaller population at
Porthtowan was found on the unshaded base of a bank of sandy
soil/mine-spoil above a track on a slope of rocky
mine-spoil.
Female bracts seen: 11, 12.
