Bryiim.] BRYACE^. 235 



orifice, reddish brown, blackish when old ; lid convex, slightly 

 apiculnte, dark orange ; inner j^eristonie yellow or hyaline. — 

 Sp. PI. 1120 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 384. 



Var. majus, Schwaegr. More densely cespitose, dividing 

 into numerous longer glaucous-green innovations : leaves slightly 

 obtuse : capsule scarcely rising above the top of the branches. 

 — Suppl. i. 2. 88, J^.Julaceum, Schrader. 



Var. lanatum, Bruch & Schimp. Branches shorter, thick: 

 top of the leaves white, appearing white-woolly by long flexuous 

 hair-like points without chlorophyll : capsule shorter. — H. lana- 

 tum, Brid. 



Hab. Sandy ground, burnt places, rocks and wood; very common. 

 The first variety in wet shaded places; the last on dry sandy soil exposed 

 to the sun. 



30. B. CSespiticium, Linn. Plants more or less densely 

 cespitose ; tufts yellowish green, ferruginous, tomentose within : 

 leaves erect and straight when dry, tlie lower distant, small, 

 lanceolate, the upper larger, loosely imbricate, OA'ate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate by the excurrent costa, all concave ; borders entire 

 and reflcxed : capsule oblong-pyriform, inclined or pendent, 

 narrowed under the orifice when dry ; lid lai"ge, mammiform, 

 reddish, polished ; teeth ferruginous, broadly lamellose inside ; 

 segments cleft, separated by two or three long-appendiculate 

 cilia. — Sp. PL 1121 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 374 and 375. 



Hajj. Old fields on the ground, stones, old walls, etc. ; very common. 



A very variable species, especially in the leaves and form of the cap- 

 sule, which is generally capped by a large lid. This with the inflores- 

 cence and the perfect peristome separates it from B, penduliun. 



31. B. capillare, Linn. Tufts bright or dirty green, 

 brown-tomentose inside ; plants branching by few innovations : 

 leaves soft, twisted when dry, broadly oblong or spatulate, more 

 or less abruptly narrowed into a filiform slightly denticulate 

 often flexuous point, brown-margined and reflexed on the bor- 

 ders ; costa vanishing below the apex or excurrent : capsule 

 long-jiedicelled, horizontally inclined or pendent, oblong or 

 obconical, gradually narrowed to its collum, which is shorter 

 than the sporangium, fuscous ; lid large, mammiform, apiculate, 

 shining.— Sp. PI. 1121; Schwaegr. Supph i. 2. 118, t. 74; 

 Bryol. Eur. t. 368, 369. 



Hab. Black soil, roots of trees, and shaded places; mountains and 

 borders of streams. 



