390 BEYACE^. [Hypnum. 



abruptly narrowly acuminate: vaginule short, hairy: capsule 

 on a thick pedicel, chestnut-color; peristome dirty yellow; 

 cilia two or three, stout, as long as the cleft segments ; annulus 

 very large. — Muse. Frond, iv. 56, t. 22; Bryol. Eur. t. 598. 

 Cteuidimn molluscum^ Mitt. 



Var. COndensatum, Schimp. Drooping tufts densely 

 intricate, velvety ; stems shorter, more robust, less regularly 

 pinnate : leaves broader falcate, the apical close, pectinate, 

 hooked : capsule shorter-pedicellate. — Syn. 632. 



Var. erectum, Schimp. 1. c. Stems erect, less divided: 

 leaves narrow. 



Hab. Stones and rocks, shaded hills afid woods, mostly in mountain 

 regions. 



Subgenus XXIII. HYPNUM, proper. (PI. 6.) 



Stems generally creeping, more or less regularly pinnate- 

 ramulose. Leaves close, falcate-secund, veiy rarely equally 

 spreading, ovate-lanceolate, narrowly acuminate; areolation 

 linear, minutely quadrate at the angles ; inner periehaitial 

 leaves sulcate; paraphyllia few. Capsule cylindrical-oblong; 

 pedicel smooth ; operculum large, rostrate or convex-conical. 



148. H. reptile, Michx. Plants drooping, in wide loose 

 tufts, pale or dirty green ; stems branching, subpinnate or 

 pinnately ramulose ; branchlets erect, incurved : leaves crowded, 

 lanceolate-acuminate from an oblong base, sharply serrate above, 

 concave, flat or recurved on the borders ; costa double, short, 

 dirty yellow ; paraphyllia few and A^ery small, lanceolate or 

 palmate; inner perichjetial leaves long-acuminate, sulcate, bi- 

 costate, serrate at the apex: capsule suberect or slightly cernu- 

 ous, cylindrical, ochraceous, curved above Avhen dry ; operculum 

 lai-ge, yellow, narrowly rostrate from a highly convex-base; 

 teeth subulate-acuminate, orange at base ; segments cleft be- 

 tween the articulations; cilia shorter than the segments; 

 annulus large, compound. — Fl. Bor.-Amer. ii. 315; Bryol. Eur. 

 t. 587. Leshea pallescens^ Hedw. Spec. Muse. 219, t. 55, f. 1-6. 

 H. pallescens^ Beauv. Prodr. 67. Stereodon 'pallescens^ Lindb. 

 Fl. Crypt. Asise Bor.-Orient. in Act. Soc. Sci. Fenn. x. 254. 



Var. protuberans. Plants smaller: leaves narrower, longer 

 acuminate, serrate all around : annulus narrow, sim^jlo. — Lindb. 



