DICRANACE^E.] no [Anisothecium. 



6. ANISOTHECIUM MITT. 



(Journ. Lin. Soc. Dot. xii, 39 (1869). ) 



Mosses resembling Dicranella in habit ; leaves gradually narrowed, 

 or from a sheathing base abruptly subulate, carinate, with the margin 

 plane or recurved, and nerve narrow and well defined below. Capsule 

 always smooth, pachydermous, curved as in Hypnwn, rarely suberect 

 or less oblique, the cells of the exothecium regularly rectangular- 

 quadrate, with non-flexuose walls. Peristome larger, thicker, deep 

 purple, more papillose. (Lindberg). Deriv. avisos unequal, 7?*?? a capsule. 



CLAVIS TO THE SPECIES. 



Leaves not sheathing, erecto-patent. 



Capsule cernuous, curved. rubrutn. 



Capsule suberect, ovate. rufescens. 



Leaves from a sheathing base, squarrose. 

 Leaves abruptly subulate. 



Neck of capsule substrumose, apex of leaf entire. Grevillci. 



Neck of capsule equal, apex of leaf serrulate. crispum. 



Leaves broad, obtuse. squarrosum. 



i. ANISOTHECIUM RUBRUM (Huds.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; small, simple ; leaves erecto-patent, lanceolate-subulate, 

 nerve slightly excurrent. Capsule cernuous, ovate, subincurved, rufous ; 

 seta red ; lid large, short-beaked. (T. XVI, B.) 



SYN. Bryum trichoides, obscure virescens, capitulis cermtis. DILL. Cat. Giss. 226(1719), et in 



RAY Synops. 3 ed. 100 (1724). 

 Bryum trichoides, capsulis rubris cernuis. DILL. Hist. muse. 390, T. 50, f. 59 (1741) : et 



herbar. 

 Bryum rubrum HUDS. Fl. Angl. 413 (1762). L. Mant. alt. 309 (1771). GMEL. Syst. nat. 



ii, 1331 (1791). LAICH. PI. Eur. 473 (1794). 

 Bryum simplex L. Sp. pi. 2 ed. ii, 1587 (1763) ; Syst. nat. ii, 702. NECK. Meth. muse. 202 



(1771). HUDS. op. c. 2 ed. 486 (1778). EHRH. Hann. mag. 1780, p. 236. ROTH Fl. 



germ, i, 474 (1788). HOFFM. Deutsch. Fl. ii, 35 (1796). 



Dicranum simplex HEDW. Fund. P. 2, 92 (1782). SIBTH. Fl. Oxon. 282 (1794). 

 Fuscina simplex SCHRANK Baiers. Fl. ii, 453 (1789), Fl. Salisb. n. 828. 

 Dicranum varium HEDW. St. cr. ii, 93, t. 34 (1789), Sp. muse. 133 (1801). ROTH Fl. Germ. 



iii, 370 (1795). BRID. Muse. rec. ii, P. I, 169 (1798), Sp. muse. I, 187 (1806), Mant. 61 



(1819), Bry univ. i, 435 (1826). SWARTZ Muse. suec. 57 (1798). ROEHL. Moosg. Deutsch. 



370 (1800), Deutsch. Fl. iii, 71 (1813). SM. Fl. Brit, iii, 1209 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1215. 



TURN. Muse. hib. 65 (1804). P. BEAUV. Prodr. 55 (1805). SCHULTZ Fl. Starg. 300 



(1806). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 286 (1807). SCHWAEGR. Suppl. I, P. I, 174 (1811). 



WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 341 (1812), Fl. carp. 346. VOIT Muse. herb. 47 (1812). MART. Fl. 



cr. Erl. 99 (1817). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. Brit. 58, t. 17 (1818) ; FUNCK Moost. 28, t. 20 



(1821). GRAY Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 738 (1821). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 134 (1821) ; Br. Fl. 



ii, 42 (1833). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 260(1833). MACK. Fl. hib. P. 2, 24 (1836). HARTM. 



Skand. Fl. DE NOT. Syll. muse. n. 295 (1838). Fl. Dan. t. 2310, f. 2. RABENH. 



Deutsch. Kr. Fl. ii, S. 3, 140 (1848). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 37-40, p. 20 t. 10 (1847). 



WILS. Bry. Brit. 70, t. 17 (1855). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 50 (1873). HOBK. Syn. Br. 



m. 42 (1873). 



