DICRANACE.E.] 123 [Blindia. 



lanceolate, truncate, of 2 5 joints, perforated, pale, smooth ; spores 

 small, pale. Male infl. on a short radical branch, gemmaceous, bracts 

 broad, ovate, nerveless. 

 HAB. Wet sandstone rocks. Fr. 4. 



Ben Buy and Ben Nevis (Rev. C. Smith). Greenfield, Yorks. (Hobson 1835) ! Henfield 

 and Black down, Sussex (Borrcr) \ Todmorden (Nowcll 1849) ! Park quarry, 

 Castle Howard (Baker 1858) ! ! Tebay (Barnes 1868) ! Alderley edge, Cheshire (White- 

 head 1865) ! ! Bolton and Ainsworth (Scholefield 1861) ! Grayrigg forest, Westmoreland 

 (Stabler 1868) ! Fern, Brechin (Fergusson 1868) ! Westward, Cumbd. (Rev. R. Wood 

 1880) ! ! Near Lough Bray (Taylor). Kelly's Glen, Dublin (Moore 1863). 



Subf. 4. DICRANEM. Plants small, or tall and robust; leaves 

 lanceolate, often falcato-secund and serrated, glossy, smooth or some- 

 times papillose ; cells narrow and elongate above, those at the basal angles 

 larger, vesicular, colored or pellucid. Capsule often subcylindric and curved, 

 lid rostrate, teeth of per. 16, solid, lanceolate, trabeculate, usually cleft or 

 perforated in the divisural line, rarely wanting. 



9. BLINDIA BR. SCH. 



Bry. eur. f. 3336 (1846). 



Plants densely caespitant, dichotomous, fastigiate ; leaves quinque- 

 farious, lanceolate-subulate, nerved, smooth, cells narrow, quadrate 

 above, linear at base, with large, colored, vesicular angular cells. 

 Calyptra dimidiate-cucullate ; capsule immersed or exserted, sub- 

 spherical with a turgid neck, pachydermous. Peristome none or simple, 

 teeth 16, lanceolate, remotely jointed, slender, smooth, cartilaginous. 

 Deriv. After pastor Blind of Munster. 



CLAVIS TO THE SPECIES. 



Dwarf. Capsule immersed, gymnostomous. ccespiticia. 



Taller. Capsule exserted, peristomate. acuta. 



i. BLINDIA C-ffiSPITICIA (Schwaeg.) Lindb. 



Autoicous ; leaves oblong, subulate, entire with hyaline points. 

 Capsule immersed, gymnostomous. (T.-XVII, E.) 



SYN. Ancectangium ccespiticium SCHWAEGR. in SCHRAD. neu Jour, iv, 13, t. II, A (1801) ; Suppl. 



I, P. I, 35, t. 12 (1811). FUNCK Moost. 7, t. 5 (1821). HOPP. HORNSCH. PI. cr. Dec. i 



(1817). 

 Gymnostomum ccesp. WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 77 et 453 (1807). SCHKUHR Deutsch. Kr. 



gew. 28, t. n, c. (1810). Eng. Bot. t. 2778. HOOK. br. fl. ii, 6 (1833). HUEBEN. Muse. 



germ. 57 (1833). DE NOT. Syll. 288 (1838). 

 Schistidium c<zsp. BRID. Mant. 21 (1819) ; Bry. un. i, 119 (1827). NEES HORNSCH. Bry. 



germ, i, 94, t. 8, f. 2 (1823). 

 Stylostegium casp. BR. SCH. Bry. eur. f. 3336, p. 3, t. i (1846). Synops. 118 (1860) ; 



2 ed. 130 (1876). HARTM. Sk. Fl. RABENH. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, P. 3, 131 (1848). WILS. 



Bry. br. 56, t. 38 (1855). BERK. Handb. br. m. 287 (1863). DE NOT. Epil. Bri. ital. 657 



(1869). HOBK. Syn. br. m. 38 (1873). JURATZ. Laubm. Oesterr. ung. 73 (1882). 

 Blindia Stylostegium C. MUELL. Synops. i, 345 (1849). 

 Blindia cczspiticia LINDB. Muse. Scand. 25 (1879). 



