DICRANACE^.] 142 [Dicranum. 



subulate, entire. Caps, erect, ovate, furrowed when dry; peristome 

 large, spreading. (T. XIX, G.) 



Svn.Bryiimfnlvclhim DICKS. Cr. brit. fasc. IV, 10, t. u, f. i (1801). 



Dicranum fidvclluni SM. Fl. br. iii, 1209 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 2268. GREV. Scot. cr. fl. t. 



188 (1825). BRID. Bry. univ. i, 813 (1826). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. br. 2 ed. 103, Suppl. t. 



3 (1827). HOOK. Br Fl. ii, 43 (1833). MACK. Fl. hib. P. 2, 24 (1836). C. MUELL. 



Synops. i, 371 (1849). MILDE Bry. siles. 62 (1869). DE NOT. Epil. bri. it. 632 (1869). 



SCHIMP. Synops. 77 (1860) et 2 ed. 78 (1876). JURATZ. Laubm. Oesterr. ung. 37 (1882). 

 Grimmia schisti SM. Fl. br. iii, 1185. Eng. Bot. t. 1952. 

 Dicr. rupestre WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 185 & 469 (1807). 

 Dicr. Seligeri BRID. Mant. 59 (1819) ; Bry. univ. i, 429. 

 Dicr. Moerchii HORNSCH. in Flora viii, P. I, 78 (1825). 

 Weissiaflexiiosa NEES HORNSCH. Bry. germ, ii, P. II, 121, t. 35 (1831). 



Arctoa fuhella BR. SCHIMP. Bry. eur. fasc. 33 6, p. 4, t. i (1846). RABENH. Deutsch. kr. 

 fl. ii, S. 3, 151 (1848). WILS. Bry. br. 59, t. 33 (1855). HARTM. Skand. fl. 9 ed. 71 

 (1864). BERK. Handb. br. m. 286, t. 23. f. 10 (1863). HOBK. Syn. br. m. 39 (1873). 



Autoicous ; densely caespitose, i 2 in. high, dull green or yellowish 

 above, blackish brown below. Leaves dense, secund, the upper often 

 falcate, lane. -subulate, glossy, entire or slightly denticulate at apex ; 

 angular cells lax, few, flat, the rest very narrow oblong. Perich. bracts 

 from an oblong sheathing base, subulate. Caps, slightly exserted on a 

 reddish-brown seta, erect, oval with a tapering neck, or subcernuous 

 and slightly asymmetric, ferruginous, 8 striate when dry ; lid red, 

 obliquely conico-subulate ; annulus large ; teeth red, spreading 

 horizontally when dry, narrowly lanceolate-subulate, bifid or perforated. 



Male infl. gemmiform, below the perichaetium, bracts ovate 

 acuminate. 

 HAB. Crevices of rocks on the higher mountains. Fr. 7. 



Ben More (Dickson). Ben Nevis (Borrcr). Ben Lawers (Greville) ! ! Clova (Drum- 

 mond) \ \ Snowdon (Taylor] \ ! Llanberis (Hunt) \ \ Cronkley Scarr, Teesdale 

 (Spruce) ! Striding edge, Great Gable and Scawfell Pikes (Baker 1867) ! ! Arncliff 

 wood, Whitby (Rev. J. F. Crouch) \ \ 



The foliage much resembles that of Blindia acuta, with which it was 

 confounded, but the angular cells are different and the fruit quite distinct. 



2. DICRANUM SCHISTI (Gunn.) Lindb. 



Autoicous; in soft dull green tufts. Leaves lanc.-subulate, entire, 

 flexuose, pellucid with fuscous ang. cells. Caps, ovate, smooth, 

 strumose. (T. XX, A.) 



SYN. Bryumfol. sctaccis curvatis, caps, erectis, obtuse ovatis, capltcllo oblique rostrato,apopfiysi 



capitulo subjccta OEDER Fl. dan. t. 538, n 2 (1770). 

 Bryum schisti GUNN. Fl. norveg. P. II, 138 (1772). 



Dicranum Blyttii BR. SCHIMP. Bry. eur. fasc. 37 40, p. 26, t. 16 (1847). RABENH. 

 Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, s. 3, 142 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 364 (1849). WILS. Bry. br. 

 74-, t. 39 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 80 (1860), 2 ed. 81 (1876). BERK. Handb. br. m. 277 

 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 64 (1869). HOBK. Syn. br. m. 45 (1873). JURATZ. Laubm. 

 Oesterr. ung. 39 (1882). 



Dicr. schisti LINDB. Act. Soc. scien. fenn. X, n (1871), Muse, scand. 24 (1879). 



