406 BRYACE^. [Uypnum. 



182. H. turgescens, Schimp. Cespitose, in deep soft 

 tumescent dark yellow and greenish tufts ; stems slender, erect, 

 eradiculose, with few fastigiate julaceous branches and few 

 short thick or long slender branchlets : leaves glossy, broadly 

 oblong, deeply concave, subcucullate at the apex, abruptly 

 short-apiculate ; borders erect and entire, not decurrent nor 

 excavate at the angles ; costa short, bifurcate ; cells narrow, 

 short, hexagonal, vermicular in the upper part of the leaves, 

 broader toward the base, large, rectangular and quadrate at the 

 angles : male flowers minute. — Syn. ed. 2, 794. 



Hab. Davis Straits (Taylor), according to Mitten (Journ. Linn, Soc. 

 viii. 42). 



183. H. badium, Hartm. Plants erect or prostrate, dark 

 reddish brown below, orange-yellow above : leaves imbricate, 

 short, solid, glossy, greenish yellow when young, gradually 

 darker toward the base of the stems, broadly ovate, acute or 

 acuminate, very entire and concave ; costa ascending to above 

 the middle, dissolving or bipartite at the a])ex ; areolation thick, 

 solid, flexuous-linear, with a few very small quadrate alar cells ; 

 perichjetium long, imbricate, the leaves ovate, long-lanceolate, 

 solid, thinly costate : capsule small, cernuous, turgid-oval, thin, 

 on a slender pedicel, slightly constricted under the orifice when 

 dry. — Skand. Fl. ed. 5, 332 ; Schimp. Syn. 6-49. Amhlystegium 

 badium^ Lindb. Muse. Scand. 33. 



Hab. Labrador (J. A. Allen), sterile. 



A beautiful species, described by Scliiniper from specimens communi- 

 cated by Hartmann. Tiie capsules were deoperculate. It is considered 

 by Mueller (Syn. ii. 324) to be a form of H. r evolvent. 



Subgenus XXVI. SCORPIDIUM. 

 Plants of great size, with fastigiate branches and few branch- 

 lets. Leaves tui-gid, imbricate, secund, broad-ovate, soft, sub- 

 ecostate ; areolation very narrow. Flowers dioecious. 



184. H. SCOrpioides, Linn. Tufts wide and deep, soft, 

 dark green or reddish brown; plants flexuous, erect or pros- 

 trate; branches dichotomous or fastigiate, distantly and un- 

 equally ramulose ; branches and branchlets arcuate or incurved 

 at the apex : leaves crowded, turgid, imbricate-secund, those of 

 the branches sometimes falcate, narrowed at base, broaTlly ovate, 

 obtuse or short-pointed, concave, soft ; costa simple or double 



