DICRANACEJE.] 167 [Oncophorus. 



castaneous or rufescent, obovate, cernuous, strumose, when empty 

 incurved, wide mouthed, smooth or slightly sulcato-striate, lid with a 

 curved beak, teeth of peristome purple, close together at the base, 

 slightly cleft into two slender legs. 



HAB. Crevices of Alpine rocks ; very rare. Fr. 8. 

 Glen Callater (Fergusson 1871). 



Var. (3. compactus (S 'chimp'). 



Plants in dense yellow green tufts; leaves dense erecto- patent, shorter, 

 curling strongly, the margin quite entire. Capsule short gibbous, neck with 

 a rounded struma. (T. XXV, B., fig. ft.} 



SYN. Dicranum Homanni BOECK in HARTM. Skand. Fl. 4 ed. 384 (1843). 

 Dlcr. virens Var. S. compactum Bry. Eur. 

 Cynodontium virens Var. S. compactum SCHIMP. Synops. 

 Dicr. Wahlenbcrgii Var. ft. compactum LINDB. in Oefv. K. vet. ak. Forhandl. 1867, p. 556. 



HAB. On the higher mountains of Braemar. Little Craigandal, with Dicr. 



elongatum (Fergusson and Roy 1873). 



This plant is certainly distinct from O. virens, and in habit resembles O. 

 strumiferum; the form of the base of leaf is quite characteristic. Prof. Lind- 

 berg retains it in a separate section which he names Parasymblepharis. The 

 variety ft. by the shape of its leaf must also be placed here and not under 

 0. virens. 



Sect. 2. EUONCOPHORUS Lindb. Plants slender, ramulose ; leaves 

 papillose. Capsule suberect, oblong, with a distinct neck, equal or slightly 

 strumose, striate, when empty sulcate; teeth thin, more distantly trabeculate, 

 cleft into 2 3 slender legs. 



3. ONCOPHORUS STRUMIFER (Ehrh.) Brid. 



Autoicous ; in pulvinate tufts. Leaves lanceol. -subulate, flexuose, 

 entire or crenulate at apex, papillose on both sides. Caps, gibbose- 

 oblong, distinctly strumose at base. (T. XXV, C.) 



SYN. Dicranum strumiferum EHRH. PI. crypt, n. 74 (1786). SCHRAD. Spic. fl. germ. 59 (1704). 



SWARTZ Muse. suec. 33 (1799). ROTH Fl. germ, iii, P. I, 186 (1800). SMITH Fl. 



brit. iii, 1228 (1804), Eng. hot. t. 2410. BRID. Sp. muse. I, 226 (1806), Mant. 24 (1819). 



WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 181 (1807). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I, 194 (1811). ROEHL. 



Deutsch. fl. iii, 72 (1813). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. br. 54, t. 17 (1818). FUNCK Moost. 31, t. 



21 (1821). GRAY Nat. afr. br. pi. i, 735 (1821). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 132 (1821), Br. fl. 



ii, 39 (1833). HUEBEN. muse. germ. 232 (1833). c - MUELL, Synops. ii, 592 (1851). 

 Fissidens strumifer HEDW. Muse. fr. ii, 88, t. 32 (1788). Sp. muse. 160 (1801). BRID. 



Muse. rec. II, P. I, 151 (1798). ROEHL. Moosg. deutsch. 308 (1800). WAHLENB. Fl. 



carp. 343 (1814). 



Hypnum strnmosum GMEL. Syst. nat. ii, 1339 (1791). LAICH. PI. eur. 488 (1794). 

 Bryum strumiferum DICKS. PI. crypt, fasc. 3, p. 8 (1793). WITH. Bot. arr. br. veg. 3 ed. 



iii. 833 (1796). HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 36 (1796). HULL Br. fl. P. 2, 264 (1799). 

 Bryum inclinans DICKS, op. c. fasc. 4, p. n, t. n, f. 9 (1801). SM. Fl. brit. iii, 1363. 



BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 66 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 32 (1817), Mant. 120 (1810) 



SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 120 (1816). 

 Cecalyphum strumiferum P. BEAUV. Prodr. 52 (1805). 

 Dicr. gibbosum BRID. Sp. muse. I, 225 (i8o6).| 

 Oncophorus strumifer BRID. Bry. univ. i, 395 (1826). BRAITHW. in Journ. Bot. 1870, p. 228. 



LINDB. Muse, scand. 27 (1879). 



