POLYTRICHACE^.] 39 [Catharinea. 



part ; lamellae 5 7, much higher, and occupying most of the apex of 

 leaf, in section each of 4 6 small rounded cells. Capsule on a 

 purple seta, erect or a little inclined, straight or subarcuate, narrowly 

 cylindric, purple red ; calyptra very narrow, spinulose at point ; lid 

 dark purple, glossy, with a shorter beak ; teeth of peristome narrower. 

 Male plants in separate tufts ; infl. cup-shaped, inner bracts broadly 

 obovate with the nerve thickened at apex. 

 HAB. Clay and sandy soil in shady places. Very rare. Fr. n i. 



Wet sand banks at Hassocks, near Hurstpierpoint, 6* and fr. (Mitten 1846) ! ! Steep 

 stony pastures near Doune, Perthshire, c. fr. (McK inlay 1864) ! 



Readily known from C. imdulata by its slender habit, olive-green tint, 

 and shorter, blunt-pointed leaves, which are more minutely areolate. Much 

 more frequent in America than in Europe. 



2. CATHAKINEA UNDULATA (L.) Web. Mohr. 



Paroicous. Leaves increasing in size upward, lingulato-lanceolate, 

 undulate in the upper half, acute, margin narrowly bordered and dentate 

 nearly to base; lamellae 2 5, low. Capsule cylindric, arcuate; lid 

 long-beaked. (T. V, B.) 



SYN. Adiantum sen Polytrichum aureum medium RAY Hist. PI. i, 124 (1686), et Syn. Stirp. 



Brit, i ed. 19 (1690). 

 MUSCHS capillaris mafusculus, foliis longis cum aliqua latitudinc, viridibus, acutis rugosis 



RAY Syn. 2 ed. 29, n. 6 (1696). MORIS. Hist. pi. Oxon. iii, 631, t. V, f. 10 (1698). 

 Bryum erectum, capitulis oblongis, rubentibus, foliis oblongis, angustis pellucidis rugosis 



DILL. Cat. Giss. 222 (1719), et in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 95, n. 15 (1724). 

 Bryum Phyllitidis folio rugoso cicuto, capsulis incurvis DILL. Hist. muse. 360, n. 18 ; t. 46, 



f. 18 (1741) et Herb. 

 Bryum undulatum L. Sp. PI. ii, 117, n. 10 (1753), et Syst. nat. ii, 701. HUDS. Fl. angl. 



406 (1762). OEDER Fl. Dan. t. 477. WEISS Cr. Gott. 196 (1770). WITHER. Bot. arr. 



Br. Veg. ii. 673 (1776). LIGHTF. Fl. Scot, ii, 722 (1777). CURT. Fl. Lond. i, t. 70 



(1778). WEB. Spic. Fl. gott. 171 (1778). RELH. Fl. cant. 404 (1785). HOFFM. 



Deutsch. Fl. ii. 40, t. i (1796). ABBOTT Fl. bedf. 243 (1798). HULL Br. Fl. 



P. 2, 265 (1799). 



Bryum phyllitidifolium NECK. Meth. muse. 203 (1771)- 

 Catharinea Callibryon EHRH. in Hann. Mag. 1780, p. 934, et Beitr. i, 126 (1787). 



C. MUELL. Syn. muse, i, 192 (1849). 



Mnium undulatum SWARTZ Meth. muse. 27 (1781). L. FIL. Meth. muse. 364 (1787). 

 Polytrichum undulatum HEDW. Fund, ii, go (1782) ; Stirp. cr. i, 43, T. xvi.xvii (1787) ; 



Sp. muse. 98 (1801). WILLD. Fl. berol. n. 915 (1787). ROTH Fl. germ, i, 458, et iii, 



354 (1788). TIMM Fl. meg. n. 773 (1788). SCHRANK Baier. Fl. ii, 448 (1789). BRID. 



Muse. rec. ii, P. I, 92 (1792) ; Sp. muse. I, 78 (1806). SIBTH. Fl. Oxon. 307 (1794). 



MOENCH PI. marb. 736 (1794). SWARTZ Muse. suec. 78 (1798). ROHL. Moosg. Deuts. 



201 (1800). RICH, in MCHX. Fl. bor. amer. ii, 295 (1803). STURM Deutsch. Fl. ii, 2 



(1803). SMITH Fl. Brit, iii, 1382 (1804) ; Eng. Bot. t. 1220 (1803). TURN. Muse. nib. 



91 (1804). SCHULTZ Fl. starg. 287 (1806). SCHWAEGR. Suppl. I, P. 2, 300 (1816). 



MART. Fl. cr. erl. 79 (1817). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. Br. 23, T. X (1818). GRAY Nat. arr. 



Br. pi. i, 719 (1821). HOOK. Fl, Scot. P. 2, 125 (1821) ; Brit. Fl. ii, 48 (1833). FUNCK 



Moostasch. 70, t. 57 (1821). WAHLEN. Fl. suec. 741 (1826). WALLR. Fl. cr. germ, i, 



195 (1831), MACKAY Fl. hib. P. 2, 27 (1836). DE NOT. Syll. muse. n. 214 (1838). 



FIOR. MAZ. Bry. rom. 2 ed. 28 (1841). 



Callibryum polytrichoides WIBEL Prim. fl. Werth. 290 (1799). 

 Catharinea undulata WEB. MOHR Ind. mus. pi. cr. (1803) ; Bot. Tasch. 216 (1807). 



ROHL. Ann. Wett. Ges. iii, 233 (1814) ; Deutsch. Fl. iii, 61 (1813). BRID. Mant. muse. 



304 (1819) ; Bry. univ. ii, 102 (1827). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 517 (1833). RABENH. 



Deutsch. Kr. Fl. ii, P. 3, 233 (1848). LINDB. in Not. ur Sallsk. Fn. et Fl. fenn. ix, 



146 (1867). 



