*1: Trefusis Point,
Falmouth, 1962, JAP (BBSUK) (Paton 1969a:
713). [Listed for vc1 in CC 1907 but no record
traced: Paton 1969a: 713].
*2: Bodieve near
Wadebridge, 1878, RVT (B) (Paton 1969a:
713).
Grows as scattered plants, less often as a low
lawn, its presence often not being detected until other small
bryophytes are examined with handlens or dissecting
microscope. Habitat notes from Cornwall are as follows. On
soil (dry to damp, silty or loamy, circumneutral to mildly
acidic), on horizontal, sloping or vertical surfaces. Most
sites are shaded or partly shaded, mainly by trees or scrub,
but once on open but N.-facing bank. Most finds have been in
open woodland or on woodland tracks, edges or in clearings,
with others in Grey Willow carr, on laneside banks, on top of
'hedge', on slope above sea-cliff, between boulders of stile
in 'hedge' between fields, on bank between pastures and in a
cemetery. Associates recorded include Bryum ruderale, Bryum sauteri, Dicranella rufescens,
Epipterygium
tozeri, Oxyrrhynchium hians,
Kindbergia
praelonga, Fissidens bryoides
var. bryoides
(frequent), Fissidens
incurvus, Fissidens
taxifolius var.
taxifolius, Fossombronia pusilla
and Conocephalum
conicum.
Commonly c.fr. [only recorded with capsules]:
immature 1, 9-12; dehiscing 2-4, dehisced 5,
6.