GRIMMIACE^.] 8 [Grimmia. 



Grimmia apocarpa HEDW. Muse. fr. i, 104, t. 39 (1787), Sp. muse. 76. ROTH Tent. fl. 



germ, i, 455 (1788). TIMM Fl. megap. n. 729 (1788). SIBTH. Fl. oxon. 276 (1794). 



SWARTZ Muse. suec. 27 (1799). BRID. Musc..rec. ii, P. I, 57 (1798), Sp. muse. I, 96 



(1806), Mant. 33 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 167 (1826). ROEHL. Moosg. deutsch. 115 (1800), 



Deutsch. fl. iii, 46 (1813), Ann. V/ett. ges. iii, 95. SMITH Fl. brit. 1200 (1804), Eng. 



Bot. t, 1134. TURN. Muse. hib. 20 (1804). P. BEAUV. Prodr. 58 (1805). SCHULTZ Fl. 



starg. 283 (1806). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 129 (1807). SCHKUHR Deutsch. kr. gew. 



P. II, 47, t. 21 (1810). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I, 96 (1811). VOIT Muse, herbip. 27 



(1812). WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 319 (1812). MART. Fl. cr. erl. 114 (1817). HOOK. TAYL. 



Muse. br. 36, t. 13 (1818). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 128 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 24 (1833). FUNCK 



Moost. 18, t. 12 (1821). GRAY Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 726 (1821). NEES HORNSCH. Bry. 



germ, ii, P. I, 86, t. 14, f. 4 (1827). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 163 (1833). MACK. Fl. hib. 



P. 2, 16 (1836). DE NOT. Syllab. 236 (1838). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 776 (1849). 



SCHIMP. Synops. 200 (1860), 2 ed. 242. ZETT. Rev. Grinm. scand. 50 (1861). MILDE 



Bry. siles. 142 (1869). HOBK. Syn. br. m. 78 (1873). HUSN. Mouss. Nord-ouest go 



(1873), Muse. gall. 123, t. 35 (1886). JURATZ. Laubm. oester-ung. 152 (1882). CHALUB. 



Grimm. Tatr. 17 (1882). BOULAY Muse. Fr.$gi (1884). LESQ. JAMES Mosses N. Amer. 



136 (1884). 



Grimmia apocaulos LAMK. CAND. Fl. Franc. 3 ed. i, 458 (1805). 

 Schistidium apocarpum BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 25 28, p. 7, t. 3 (1845). AONGST. in 



FRIES Summ. veg. scand. 96 (1846). RABENH. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, s. 3, 154 (1848). 



WILS. Bry. brit. 150, t. 13 (1855). BERK. Handb. br. m. 243, t. 21, f. 6 (1863). DE NOT. 



Epil. bri. ital. 711 (1869). 



Autoicous ; robust, crowded in lax fuscescent, olivaceous-green or 

 blackish tufts, dichotomously branched, free from radicles. Leaves from 

 an erect base, patent, erect when dry, ovato-lanc. and elongate lane., 

 concave at base, thence deeply carinate, the margin adpresso-recurved, 

 toothed at the usually hyaline apex, or entire, upper prolonged into a 

 short rough hair ; nerve rough above, continued to the hair or vanishing 

 below apex, 5-stratose below ; lowest basal cells rectang., then narrow 

 and sinuose, upper rounded. Perich. bracts broader, thinner, with a 

 narrower nerve, hair point shorter or none. Caps, ovate, pachy- 

 dermous, less concealed in the perichaetium, solid, rufous, lid bright red, 

 mucronato-rostellate, annulus 3 4 rows of small cells ; teeth of per. 

 arising below orifice, large, purple red, but little perforated or entire, 

 radiately spreading when dry. Male infl. lateral, gemmiform, bracts 

 ovate, subcucullate. 



HAB. Rocks and stone walls ; not uncommon. Fr. 12-3. 

 Var. /?. alpicola (Sw.). 



Short, more densely tufted, suberect ; leaves shorter, broader, ovate- 

 oblong, green, muticous, obtuse, entire, nerve shorter, basal cells laxer ; caps. 

 more emergent, calyptra often cucullate, lid long-beaked. 



SYN. Grimm/a alpicola SWARTZ Muse. suec. 27 et 81, t. i, f. i. HEDW. Sp. muse. 77, t. i 



X 7 5 M ?' "' II9 ?' Eng ' Bot * 2226 ' TURN - Musc " hib ' 22 - BRID - Sp. muse. 



e ;e S yn an H^ WAHL - F1 ' '*PP' 3ao, 



Grwmia "P 1 *"- la HOOK. TAYL. Musc. br. 87. NEES HSCH. Bry. germ, ii, 



HAB. Stones in alpine streams. 



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