*1: Flushing near Falmouth, 1840, EAW
(TRU) (Paton 1969a:
739).
*2: Near Trehane,
Probus, 1861, ES (TRU) (Paton 1969a:
739).
Grows mainly as scattered plants and small tufts or
patches or partly intermixed with other mosses. Notes on
habitats in Cornwall are as follows. On steep to near-vertical
soil (acidic, free-draining and often loamy, friable, or
partly bare), mainly on laneside banks and on Cornish hedges.
One record from thin soil over granite rock of a tor. Its
sites vary from unshaded to moderately shaded or well shaded
by herbs or deciduous trees. Associates include various other
mosses with records of Dicranella
heteromalla, Fissidens bryoides
var. bryoides, Mnium hornum, Pogonatum aloides, Pseudotaxiphyllum
elegans, Conocephalum
conicum.
Frequently or commonly c.fr.: capsules immature 1,
3-5; dehisced 3 (old), 9-12.