DICRANACE.E.] 115 [Seligeria. 



Oncophorus squarrosus BRID. Bry. univ. i, 404 (1826). 

 Diobelon squarrosum HAMPE in litt. 



Angstroemia squarrosa C. MUELL. Synops. i, 438 (1849). 

 Dichodontium squarrosum SCHIMP. Coroll. 13 (1855). 



Dicranella squarrosa SCHIMP. Synops. 71 (1860), et 2 ed. 72 (1876). BERK. Handb. Br. m. 

 281 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 58 (1869). DE NOT. Epil. Bri. ital. 642 (1869). 



Dioicous ; caespitose, i 4 in. high, soft, bright green or yellow- 

 green, fuscous at base ; stem erect, sparingly branched. Leaves lax, 

 flaccid, squarrose, octofarious, from an erect broadly oblong, sheathing 

 base, divaricate, reflexed, oblongo-lanceolate, muticous or pointed, the 

 margin wavy, the apex eroso-crenulate, nerve narrow, vanishing at 

 apex, smooth, rather glossy ; areolation lax, hexagono-rectangular above, 

 elongated at base, with a sinuous primordial utricle ; perich. bracts 

 resembling the leaves. Capsule on a stout purple seta, cernuous, ovate 

 with a short neck, subturgid, solid, fuscous brown; annulus none; lid 

 conic, obtuse ; peristome large purple, 2 3-fid to the middle. 



Male plants similar, the infl. capituliform, bracts concave, broadly 

 lanceolate, paraphyses numerous. 



HAB. Stony ground and by streamlets on moors ; common, not frequent in 

 fruit. Fr. 89. 



In fr. Loch Broom (Borrcr) \ Staley brushes (Hobson). Ramsden Clough (Now ell 1864) ! ! 

 Ogden Clough (Scholefield) ! Quirang, Skye (Hunt 1863) ! Rattand Clough, Todmorden 

 (Hunt 1869) ! ! Hill bell, Westmoreland (Stabler 1868) ! Den of Lawers (Braithwaitc 



1865) ! ! Saltersgate beck, Yorks. (Rev. J. F. Crouch) ! ! Wheeldale, Yorks. (Braithwaitc) ! ! 

 Cautley spout, Yorks. (West 1879) ! ! 



The lively green tufts of this moss in the barren state, are a conspicuous 

 ornament to our moorlands, and much more robust than the fertile plant, 

 which is attached to gravelly clay where water stagnates. In habit it differs 

 considerably from the species which precede it. 



Subf. 3. SELIGERIE&. Plants small; scarcely branched; leaves 

 smooth, narrowly lanceolate-subulate, minutely areolate above, laxer below, 

 without distinct basal angular cells, or sometimes with them. Peristome of 

 1 6 lanceolate flat smooth teeth, entire, sometimes cleft or perforated, or 

 none. 



7. SELIGERIA. BR. SCHIMP. 



Bry. Eur. Fasc. 3336 (1846). 



Plants very small, gregarious or caespitant, growing on rocks. 

 Leaves in many rows, lanceolate or subulate, nerved, cells minute and 

 quadrate above, large and rectangular at base, sometimes with colored 

 angular cells as in Dicranum. Calyptra cucullate, capsule ovate or 

 globose with a distinct neck, often turbinate when empty, peristome 

 of 16 lanceolate flat smooth rigid teeth, rarely cleft, sometimes none ; 

 spores smooth. Deriv. After the Silesian pastor Seliger. 



