DICRANACE^.] 94 [Pleuridium. 



Pleuridium nitidum RABENH. Deuts. Kr. Fl. ii, P. 3, 79 (1848). BR. Sen. Br. eur. fasc. 43 

 Suppl. t. i (1850); Synops. 23 (1860), et 2 ed. 24 (1876). BERK. Handb. Br. m. 298 

 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 132 (1869). DE NOT. Epil. Bri. ital. 731 (1869). 



Pleuridium axillarc LINDB. in Ofver. Vet. Akad. forh. xx, 407 (1863), et xxi, 584. FALK 

 Beskrifn. ofver Skand. muse, cleist. 20. 



Paroicous ; plants very small, slender, simple or branched, pale 

 glossy green. Leaves and perich. bracts alike, erecto-patent, lanceo- 

 late or lineal-lane, acute, serrulate at apex, channelled, carinate ; cells 

 large, lax, pellucid, linear-rectangular; nerve slender, vanishing at f 

 length of leaf. Capsule on a short pedicel, small, elliptic-ovate, shortly 

 rostellate, pale brown, often pseudo-lateral with the seta arcuate. 

 Calyptra covering only top of capsule. Spores ferruginous. 



HAB. Wet clay fields and banks and by dried up pools, not uncommon. 

 Fr. 10 2. 



Var. /?. strictum (Dicks.) 



Plants smaller, very short, lurid green ; leaves and bracts closer, 

 narrower, straight ; capsule nearly spherical. 



SYN. Phascum strictum DICKS. Cr. fasc. IV, i, t. 10, f. i (1801). SM. Fl. Brit, iii, 1151 ; Eng. 



Bot. t. 2093. BRID. Sp. muse. I, 5 ; Mant. 7 ; Bry. univ. i, 34. SCHWAEGR. Suppl. I, P. 



I, n. LA PYL. in Journ. Bot. 1813, p. 281. 



Pleurid. nitidum ft. minimum RABENH. Deutsch. Kr. Fl. ii, P. 3, 79. 

 Phase, nitidum Var /?. strictum WILS. Bry. Br. 35. 



HAB. Scotland (Dickson.) 



Repeated innovation takes place on the same stem and thus several 

 capsules appear above each other, and being thrust aside by the new growth 

 acquire a lateral or axillar appearance. 



2. PLEURIDIUM SUBULATUM (Huds.) Rabenk. 



Paroicous ; stems short, simple. Perichaetial bracts lanceolate- 

 subulate, minutely serrulate, nerve broad, continuous. Capsule 

 roundish-ovate. (T. XIV, C.) 



SYN. Muscus trichoides minor acaulos, capillaceis foliis, DOODY. RAY Synops. 2 ed. app. 324 



(1696) ; Hist. PI. iii, 39 (1704). 

 Sphagnum acaulon trichoides DILL. Cat. Giss. 229 (1719); in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 105 (1724); 



Hist. muse. 251, T. 32, f. 10 (1741), et Herb. 

 Phascum subulatiim HUDS. Fl. angl. 397 (1762). L. Sp. pi. 2 ed. ii, 1570 (1763). OEDER 



Fl. Dan. t. 249 (1766). WITH. Bot. arr. Br. veg. ii, 660 (1776). CURT. Fl. Lond. t. 67 



(1778). RELH. Fl. Cant. Suppl. 16 (1786). SIBTH. Fl. Oxon. 272 (1794). ABBOT Fl. 



bedf. 229 (1798). HULL Br. Fl. P. 2, 251 (1799). SM. Fl. Brit, iii, 1149 (1804); Eng. 



Bot. t. 2177. TURN. Muse. hib. i (1804). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 64 (1807). 



SCHWAEGR. Suppl. I, P. I, 2 (1811). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. Brit. p.p. 6, t. 5 (1818) GRAY 



Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 711 (1821). HOOK. Fl. Scot. P. 2, 121 (1821); Br. Fl. ii, 3 (1833). 



Hartm. Skand. Fl. NEES HORNSCH. Bry. germ, i, 63, p.p. t. 6, f. 16 (1823). BRUCH in 



Reg. bot. Zeit. 1825, P. I, 279, excl. syn. T. i. HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 6, excl. syn. (1833). 



BR. SCHIMP. in Mem. soc. mus. Strasb. ii, 3, t. A. excl. syn. (1835) ; Bry. eur. i, Mon. 



15, t. 7 (1837). MACKAY Fl. hib. P. 2, 7 (1836). DE NOT. Syll. muse. n. 403 (1838). 



FIOR. MAZ. Bry. rom. 2 ed. i (1841). WILS. Bry. Brit. 35, T. 5 d, excl. syn. (1855). 



HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 36 (1873). HOBK. Syn. Br. m. 30 (1873). 

 Astomum subulatum HAMPE in Reg. bot. zeit. 1837, P. i, p. 285. C. MUELL. Synops. i, 



14 excl. syn. (1849). 



