*1: SW. of Truro,
1962, JAP (BBSUK) (Paton 1969a: 714).
[Earlier report (The Lizard, 1935, JBD, in Rep. 1937) not
supported by specimen: Paton 1969a:
714].
*2: Near Penhargard
Wood, Bodmin, 1879, RVT (B) (Paton 1969a:
714).
Habitat notes from C&S are as follows. Soil on
unshaded slopes e.g. banks above paths, at coast, in
churchyard and a cemetery, on open disturbed ground, tracks at
woodland edge (associates recorded include Bryum rubens, Bryum sauteri, Didymodon insulanus,
Epipterygium
tozeri, Pleuridium
acuminatum, Phascum
cuspidatum, Tortula
truncata, Weissia
brachycarpa var.
obliqua). Colonist on damp clay, disturbed clayey soil and
recently dumped soil of soil heaps, banks and flat ground near
working china clay quarries; sites partly bare and fully
insolated or almost unshaded (with Ceratodon purpureus,
Dicranella
schreberiana, Dicranella staphylina,
Trichodon
cylindricus, Fossombronia pusilla,
Fossombronia
wondraczekii, Phaeoceros laevis, Riccia subbifurca, Phascum cuspidatum
var. piliferum, Tortula truncata,
short grasses). Damp peaty soil of trackways on heathland and
at edge of heath (with Archidium
alternifolium, Fossombronia
wondraczekii, Scapania irrigua).
Unshaded sediment at upper edge of inundation-zone at
Cargenwen Reservoir (with Archidium
alternifolium). Soil on damp old track (surfaced mainly
with cinders). Five records from arable fields (cereal
stubbles, weedy fallows) (with Bryum dichotomum, Bryum rubens, Trichodon cylindricus,
Fissidens
viridulus, Pseudephemerum
nitidum, Tortula
truncata). Locally plentiful on firm unshaded sediments
among sparse low vegetation in inundation zone beside
Stithians Reservoir and Upper Tamar Lake (with Dicranella
schreberiana), also recorded in same habitat at Cargenwen
Reservoir.
Mainly but not always recorded c.fr. (identifiable
without fruit, at least when perichaetial bracts developed and
male 'buds' seen): Capsules very small 1, 11, 12; immature
1-4, dehiscing (whole capsule loose or breaking away) 3, 10.
Comments on capsule dispersal made under previous species
apparently also apply
here.