Die RAN ACE M.] I2i [Seligeria. 



Common in Kent, Sussex and Surrey. Newmarket heath (Dickson). 

 Barton hill, Beds. (Abbot). 



7. SELIGERIA SETACEA (Wulf.) Lindb. 



Autoicous ; with habit of S. pusilla. Leaves lanceolate-subulate. 

 Capsule on a flexuose-arcuate seta, subpyriform oval, mouth narrower ; 

 lid subulate, nearly straight. (T. XVII, C.) 



SYN. Bryum trichoides acaulon palustrc minimum, setis et capsulis brevissimis DILL. Hist. 



muse. 387, t. 49, f. 53 (1741), et herb. 



Bryum paludosum L. Sp. pi. ii, IIIQ (1753). HULL Br. Fl. P. 2, 257 (1799). 

 Bryum setaceum WULFEN in JACQ. Miscell. ii, 96, t. 12, f. i (1781). L. Syst. Veg. 949. 



GMEL. in L. Syst. nat. 13 ed. ii, 1331 (1790). HULL Br. Fl. P. 2, 265 (1799). 

 Grimmia recurvata HEDW. Stirp. i, 102, t. 38 (1787) ; Sp. muse. 75 (1801). BRID. Muse. 



rec. ii, P. I, 59 (1798) ; Sp. muse. I, 101 (1806). ROTH Fl. germ, iii, P. I, 141 (1800). 



ROEHL. Moosg. Deutsch. 122 (1800). SMITH Fl. brit iii, 1183 (1804); Eng. Bot. t. 



1489. TURN. Muse. hib. 24 (1804). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 145 (1807). SCHKUHR 



Deutsch. kr. gew. P. 2, 60, t. 25 (1810). SCHWAEGR, Suppl. I, P. I, 83 (1811). SCHLEICH. 



Cat. pi. helv. 29. MART. Cr. erl. 113 (1817). FUNK Moost. 16, t. n (1821). 

 Bryum recurvatum DICKS. PI. cr. Brit. fasc. II, 7 (1790). HOFFM. Deutsch. Fl. ii, 31 



(1795). WITH. Bot. arr. br. Veg. 3 ed. iii, 838 (1796). 

 Bryum Wulfenii LAICH. PI. eur. 482 (1794). 

 Weissia recurvata ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 51 (1813); Ann. Wett. ges. iii, P. I, 101. 



WAHLENB. Fl. suec. ii, 757 (1826). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. brit. 47, t. 15 (1818). BRID. 



Mant. 43 (1819) ; Bry. univ. i, 352 (1826). HOOK. Fl. Scot. P. 2, 131 (1821). GRAY 



Nat. arr. Br. pi. 5,732 (1821). NEES HORNSCH. Bry. germ ii, S. 2, 97, t. 34, f. 27 (1831). 



HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 141 (1833). BALS. DE NOT. Pr. bry. Med. 140 (1834). MACK. 



Fl. hib. P. 2, 15 (1836). DE NOT. Syll. muse. 228 (1838). HOOK. Br. Fl.ii, 23 (1833). 

 Grimmia pusilla SM. Eng. bot. t. 2551. 

 Seligeria recurvata BR. SCH. Bry. eur. f. 33 6 Mon. p. 6, t. 3 (1846). RABENH. Deutsch. 



Kr. Fl. ii, S. 3, 133 (1848). C. MUELL. Syn. i, 419 (1849). WILS. Bry. brit. 55, t. 15 



(1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 115 (1860), et 2 ed. 127 (1876). BERK. Handb. br. m. 289 



(1863). DE NOT. Epil. 655 (1869). MILDE BRY. siles. 87 (1869). HOBK. Syn. br. m. 



38 (1873). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 45 (1873). JURATZ. Laubm. Oesterr. ung. 70 



(1882). 



Selig. sctacca LINDB. in Oefv. vet. ak. forh. 1863, p. 413 et 1864, p. 189. 



Autoicous ; widely csespitose, olivaceous-green. Stem very short, 

 fragile, simple or dichotomous. Lower leaves oblongo-lanceolate, upper 

 from an erect ovato-lanceolate base, longly subulate, flexuose, acute, 

 entire; nerve semiterete, longly excurrent ; cells at base pellucid, 

 elongated rectangular, above incrassate, subquadrate, chlorophyllose ; 

 perich. bracts from a sheathing base subulate-setaceous, all subflexuose. 

 Calyptra rather large. Capsule on a slender yellowish seta, arcuate 

 when moist, erect when dry, subspheric oval or oblong, with a swelling 

 neck, inclined, leptodermous, yellow-brown with a red mouth ; lid con- 

 vexo-conic at base, with a straight subulate beak ; teeth of per. lineal, 

 obtuse or lanceolate, sometimes cleft at apex, deep orange. Male as in 

 S. pusilla. 

 HAD. Shaded sandstone rocks or stones. Fr. 4 5. 



Forfar and Bilston burn (Don) ! By the Calder and Kilbride, Glasgow. Brandon hill, 

 Ireland (Mackay). Braemar (Croall 1856). Todmorden (Noivell 1858)! ! Den of Airlie 

 (Coward 1858) ! Pentlands and Cleish hills (Arnott). Hardcastle crag (Hunt 1867) ! ! 

 Greenfield, Yorks. (Whitehead 1867)!! Kentmere, Westmoreland (Stabler 1867)! 

 Ashdown forest (Holmes 1877). Near Denbigh (Davies). Monsal Dale, Derby (White- 

 head 1881) ! ! Devil's kitchen, Twll Dhu (Holmes) \ ! 



