*1: Newlyn Cliffs
[SW42], 1862, WC (OXF) (Holmes 1869, Paton
1969a: 691).
*2: Wet track near
stream, Rocky Valley, Tintagel [SX08], Aug. 1960, JAP & JA
(BBSUK) (Paton 1961: 150, 1969a:
691).
Habitat notes from C&S are as follows. Damp or
free-draining soil in arable fields, unshaded to lightly
shaded by herbs (cauliflowers, cereal stubble, flax stubble,
maize stubble, daffodils and other horticulture, fallow) (near
Barbula convoluta,
Bryum dichotomum,
Bryum rubens, Dicranella
schreberiana, Dicranella staphylina,
Trichodon
cylindricus, Ephemerum
minutissimum, Epipterygium tozeri,
Phaeoceros laevis,
Riccia sorocarpa,
Riccia subbifurca,
Tortula truncata,
rarely Anthoceros
agrestis, Fossombronia
wondraczekii, Riccia crozalsii).
Compressed soil on or at edges of unshaded paths above
sea-cliffs (near Riccia
sorocarpa, Riccia
subbifurca). Damp partly bare soil of old tracks, in open
to slightly or partly shaded (with Anthoceros punctatus,
Archidium
alternifolium, Dicranella staphylina,
Ephemerum
minutissimum, Ephemerum serratum, Fossombronia pusilla,
Phaeoceros laevis,
Pseudephemerum
nitidum, Riccia
sorocarpa, Riccia
subbifurca, Tortula
truncata). Sandy
soil in caravan park near coast.
Commonly c.fr.: spores immature 9, mature 2, 9,
recently dehisced 9.