*1: Carn Galver, 1862,
WC (PNZ) (Paton 1969a:
717).
*2: Near Hustyn Mill,
1906, RVT (B) (Paton 1969a:
717).
Often in large, pure patches. Habitat notes from
C&S are as follows. More restricted to woods than D. scoparium, mostly of
deciduous trees, especially Sessile Oak, but including Hazel
and Sweet Chestnut coppices and larch plantations. Most
woodland records are from acidic soil or ground litter on
banks or thin soil on or among rocks, in open places to
moderately shaded, sometimes on slopes close to estuaries.
Common associates include Dicranum scoparium, Pleurozium schreberi,
Rhytidiadelphus
loreus, Rhytidiadelphus
triquetrus, Thuidium tamariscinum
and Vaccinium
myrtillus, others that are less common include Loeskeobryum
brevirostre. Also recorded in open sites on rocky slopes
on heathy hillsides, on a partly shaded laneside bank, once at
edge of scrub on china-clay spoil, and near a flush above a
N.-facing sea-cliff. More surprisingly, on Isles of Scilly
found several times as extensive patches in short Calluna vulgaris
heathland, in coastal heaths on peaty soils, once on acidic
sand of dunes, and once (St Martin's) in heathland close to
shore (just inland of raised boulder beach), unshaded, among
low Calluna and Anthoxanthum
odoratum.
Five records c.fr.: capsules immature 3, 5, 7,
11.