HAB. Mountain rocks, not uncommon. Fr. 6-7. 



Very fine in the Lake district as in Ennerdale and Easdale (Baker) I ! Teesdale (Spruce) ! ! 

 Cader Idris (Whitehead) ! ! Llyn-y-Cwm (Baker) ! ! Twll-du (Holmes) \ \ Scotland 

 Ben Lomond and Ben Lawers (Braithwaite) \ \ Braemar (Hunt) \ \ Broad-leaved form, 

 The Cobbler, Arrochar (George 1879) ! ! Flaccid dwarf form, rocks in stream, Glen 

 Croe, Arrochar (George 1879) ! ! Small form sent as A. obovata, Glen Callater 

 (Fergusson 1868) ! ! Ireland. Kerry, Wicklow and Galway (Moore). 



Common as this beautiful moss is with us, it is utterly unknown on the 

 continent, with the exception of a few stations in Norway, and has thus led 

 to great confusion in the synonymy of the older authors. In the Linnean 

 herbarium it is represented by A . petrophila, and in Sweden by A . obovata, a 

 species having leaves gradually lanceolate in the upper half, the basal 

 margin quite entire, and the apical cells much larger and more angular. 



Var. /?. Compacta. HOOK. 



In densely cushioned tufts of a lurid blackish purple color ; the branches 

 straight, equal and fastigiate ; the leaves closely imbricated. 



SYN. Andr. alpina Var. y compacta HOOK, in Trans. Lin. Soc. X, 389 (1810). BRID. Bry. 

 univ. ii, 730. 



HAB. Elevated mountains in Scotland and Wales. 



Ben Nevis (Hooker and Borrer 1806) ! On the ground, summit of Great Glyder, Carnarvon 

 (Holmes and George 1878) ! ! 



Var. y. Flavicans. HOOK. 



Stems elongated, filiform, the leaves more distant, laxly imbricated, 

 yellowish. 



SVN. Andr. alpina Var. ft. flavicans HOOK, in Trans. Lin. Soc. X, 389 (1810). BRID. Bry. 

 univ. ii, 730. 



HAB. Scotland, summit of Ben Nevis (Hooker and Borrer 1806) ! 



This marked variety has a strong superficial resemblance to A . Hartmani, 

 but is readily distinguished by its more acute leaves, and much more minute 

 areolation. 



* * Leaves nerved. 



3. A. CRASSINERVIS. Bruch. 



Autoicous ; in brown-black tufts. Leaves patent or falcato-secund, 

 from an oblong base, subulate, nerve strong, flattened below, passing 

 into the terete sub-papillose subula. (T. Ic.) 



SYN. A. crassincrvia BRUCH in Denkschr. Akad. Munch. 1828, p. 279, n. i, t. 10. RABENH. 

 Deutsch. Krypt. Fl. ii, P. 3, 72 (1848). C. MUELL. Syn. Muse. i,io (1849). SCHIMP. Bry. 

 Eur. vi, Mon. 23, t. XI (1855) ; Syn. Muse. Eur. 668 (1860), et 2 ed.82o (1876). HARTM. 

 Skand. Fl. SULL. Moss. Un. St. 13 (1856). LINDB. in Journ. Lin. Soc. xi, 460 (1870). 

 HOBK. Syn. Br. M. 22 (1873). 



Autoicous ; in rigid depressed dark brown or black, slightly glossy 

 tufts. Stems sparingly subfastigiate-branched -f in. high, very fragile. 

 Leaves crowded, divaricate, usually falcato-secund, from an oblong very 



