TORTULACE.E.] i86 [Ephemerum. 



calyp. torn at base into shreds ; spores large, rough, ferruginous. Male 



infl. gemmiform basal. 



HAB. Clay or chalky soil on heaths ; rare. Fr. 10 2. 



Henfield common and Pondleigh (Mitten 1846) ! ! Mere, Cheshire (Wilson 1854) ! ! 



Var ft. brevifolium Schimp. Syn. 2 ed. p. 6. 



Leaves shorter, nearly entire, nerve reaching apex or vanishing. 



SYN. Eph. sessile Var. stenophyllum Bry. eur. 1. c. 



Phase, sessile Var. stenophyllum WILS. Bry. brit. 



HAB. Mere, Cheshire (Wilson) \ \ 



Great confusion exists in the works of early authors between this moss 

 and the following, so that it is scarcely possible to disentangle the synonymy ; 

 a reference to the figures will show that in R. recuyvifolium, the leaves are 

 much longer and linear in outline, while in E. stenophyllum, they taper 

 gradually upward to a point. 



6. EPHEMERUM RECUR VIFOLIUM (Dicks.) Lindb. 

 Dioicous ; leaves lineal lane, flexuose, recurved, denticulate at 

 apex, nerve excurrent ; capsule oval. (T. XXVII, F.) 



SYN. Phascum recurvifoUnm DICKS. Crypt, fasc IV, p. i, t. 10, f. 2 (1801). TURN. Muse. hib. 



2 (1804). BRID. Sp. muse. I, 4 (1806), Bry. univ. i, 31, p.p. (1826). SCHKUHR Deutsch. 



kr. Gew. ii, P. II, n, t. 4 ? NEES HORNSCH. Bry. germ, i, 42, 1.5, .4? (1823). 



HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 9 (1833). WILS. Bry. brit. 28, t. 37 (1855). HOBK. Syn. br. m. 



27 (1873). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 33 (1873). 

 Phascum patens Var. SM. Fl. brit. iii, 1150 (1804) ? HOOK. TAY. muse. brit. 7 (1818) ? BRID. 



Bry. un. i, 34. 

 Phase, pachycarpum SCHW^EG. Suppl. I, P. I, 6, t. 2 (1811). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. i, 



Mon. 8, t. 2 (1837). 



Phascum Dicksoni BRID. Mant. 7 (1819). 

 Phascum crassinervium NEES HORNSCH. Bry. germ, i, 40 p.p. t. 4, f. 3 (1823). BRID. Bry. 



univ. i, 32 p.p. GREV. Scott, cr. fl. vi, t. 353 (1829). HOOK. Brit. fl. ii, 3 (1833). WILS. 



in Eng. Bot. t. 2932. 

 Ephemerum pachycarpum HAMPE in Flora xx., P. I, 295 (1837) ? RABENH. Deutsch. kr. fl. 



ii, P. 3, 85 (1848). SCHIMP. Bry. eur. fasc. 42, mon. 6, t. 2 (1849), Coroll. 3 (1855). 

 Physed'mm pachycarpum C. MUELL. in Bot. Zeit. 1847, P- IO1 - 

 Ephemerclla pachycarpa C. MUELL. Synops. i, 34 (1849). 

 Ephemcrella recurvifolia SCHIMP. Synops. 7 (1860), 2 ed. 9. BERK. Handb. br. m. 303 



(1863). LINDB. de Tort. 215 (1864). MILDE Bry. siles. go (1869). JAEG. Ber. St. Gall. 



gesells. 1869, p. 73. JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 5 (1882). 

 Ephemerum'recurvifolium LINDB. Muse, scand. 22 (1879). 



Dioicous ; with dull green, much-branched protonema. Leaves 

 erecto-patent, flexuose, curved, spreading backward towards apex, 

 elongated, lineal-lingulate, eroso-denticulate at apex ; nerve strong, 

 excurrent in an apiculus or vanishing ; cells at base elongated hexagono- 

 rectangular, hyaline, above denser, rhombic, chlorophyllose. Caps, on 

 a very short pedicel, subglobose, rostellate, rufous brown, pachyder- 

 mous ; cal. campanulate, split on one side nearly to top, vaginula 

 oblong ; spores granular, fuscous. Male plant gemmiform. 



