DICRANACEJE.] 114 [Anisothccium. 



Dicranclla Schreberi SCHIMP. Coroll. 13 (1855), Synops. 70 (1860), et 2 ed. 72 (1876). 



BERK. Handb. Br. m. 281 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 57 (1869). Hobk. Syn. Br. m. 



42 (1873). 

 Anisothecium crispum LINDB. op. c. 26 (1878). 



Dioicous ; gregarious and caespitulose, | i in. high ; yellowish green. 

 Leaves squarrose, from a dilated semivaginant base, narrowly lanceolate, 

 carinate, irregularly denticulate toward apex, not glossy ; areolation 

 firm, narrow, elongated ; perich. bracts more shortly sheathing. Capsule 

 on a purple seta, cernuous, oblong with scarce any neck, not striate, 

 exannulate ; lid conic, obliquely rostrate, large, purple ; peristome 

 purple. Male plant small, simple. 



HAB. Damp clay soil, sides of ditches and bare places in fields ; not 

 common. Fr. 9. 



Mangerton (Miss Hutchins). S. of Ireland (Mackay). Loch More, Ross (Hooker 1828) ! 

 Glen Lena, Argyle (Hooker 1837) ! Cauldron Snout, Teesdale (Black 1854) ! Ramsden 

 Clough, Todmorden (Nowell) \ \ Banks of R. Bollin at Bowdon and Ashley (Hunt 

 1864) ! ! Lancaster (Hunt 1865) ! Rochdale (Holt 1878) ! ! Killin and Stirling (Holt 

 1880) ! ! 



Var. /?. elatum (Schimp.) 



Densely caespitose ; much taller ; leaves broader, more laxly areolate, 

 more distinctly serrated. 



SYN. Dlcranella Schreberi Var. ft. data SCHIMP. Synops. 2 ed. 72. 

 Dicranella lenta WILS. MSS. 



HAB. Stirrup wood, Mottram (Nowell 1860) ! Walton Swamp, Warrington (Wilson) ! ! Broken 

 brow, Prestwich (Hunt 1863) ! ! By R. Bollin at Ashley (Hunt) ! Near Melrose 

 (Jerdon) \ The Dran, Rochdale (Holt 1880) ! ! 



The variety exactly resembles in appearance a poor starved form of the 

 next species, but is readily separated by the structure of the leaf point ; fertile 

 specimens are rare and approach nearer the typical form. 



5. ANISOTHECIUM SQUARROSUM (Starke) Lindb. 

 Dioicous ; tall, robust. Leaves squarrose, broadly oblong at base, 

 oblongo-lanceolate, obtuse and eroso-crenulate at apex ; nerve narrow, 

 vanishing at apex. Capsule cernuous, ovate, with a short neck, lid 

 conic, obtuse. (T. XVI, F.) 



SYN. Muscus trichoides palustris, capsulis erectis, foliis rcflexis DOODY. RAY Syn. St. Brit. 2 ed. 

 app. 338 (1696). 



Bryum erectis capitulis brcvibus, foliis rcflexh DILL, in RAY Syn. 3 ed. 95, n. 18 (1724) ; 



Hist. muse. 365, T. 46, f. 24 (1741). 

 Bryum pellucidum (3. L. Sp. pi. ii, 1118 (1753)- 

 Bryum palustre DICKS. PI. crypt, fasc. iv, n (1801). 

 Dicranum squarrosum STARKE in. litt. SCHRAD. Journ. Bot. v, 68 (1802). SM. Fl. Brit. 



iii, 1215 (1804) ; Eng. Bot. t. 2004. TURN. Muse. hib. 69 (1804) BRID. Sp. muse, i, 194 



(1806) ; Mant. 55 (1819). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 183 (1807). SCHWAEGR. Suppl. I, P. 



I, 182, t. 47 (1811). VOIT Muse, herbip. 49 (1812). ROEHL. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 73 (1813). 



HOOK. TAYL. Muse. Brit. 55, t. 17 (1818). FUNCK Moost. 30, t. 21 (1821). GRAY Nat. 



arr. Br. pi. i, 736 (1821). HOOK. Fl. Scot. P. 2, 133 (1821.) ; Br. Fl. ii, 40 (1833). 



HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 271 (1833). MACK. Fl. hib. P. 2, 23 (1836). RABENH. Deutsch. 



Kr. Fl. ii, S. 3, 138 (1848). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 37-40, p. 17, t. 5 (1847). WILS. Bry. 



Brit. 68, t. 17 (1855). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 49 (1873). HOBK. Syn. Br. m. 42 (1873). 



