GRIMMIACE^.] n Grimmia. 



* Curviseta. 



4. GRIMMIA ANODON BY. Sch. 



Autoicous ; in small hoary cushions. Lower leaves ovate, muticous, 

 upper ovato-acuminate with longhair-points, concave. Caps, immersed, 

 ventricose at base, gymnostomous. (T. XLVI, D.) 



SYN. Grimmia anodon BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 25 28, p. 8, t. i (1845). C. MUELL. Synops. 

 i, 780 (1849). SCHIMP. Synops. 202 (1860), 2 ed. 245. ZETT. Rev. Grimm, scand. 57 

 (1861). MILDE Bry. siles. 144 (1869). BRAITHW. in Journ. Bot. 1872, p. 195. HOBK. 

 Syn. br. m. 78 (1873). JURATZ. Laubm. oester..ung. 153 (1882). CHALUB. Grimm, 

 tatr. 30 (1882). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 389 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 138 (1884). 

 HUSN. Muse. gall. 124, t. 35 (1886). 



Anodon ventricosus RABENH. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 154 (1848). 



Autoicous ; in small fragile cushioned tufts, hoary with hairs; fuscous 

 or black at base, with ferruginous radicles. Lower leaves minute, laxly 

 imbricated, ovato-lanc., muticous, upper and perich. bracts much larger, 

 patent, broadly oblongo-lanc., concave with plane margins, prolonged 

 into an obtuse point with a longish serrate hair ; cells at base gradually 

 wider, longish rectangular, scarce thickened, hyaline at margin, above 

 small, incrassate ; nerve vanishing in the apex. Caps, immersed, on a 

 short arcuate pedicel, subglobose, ventricose on one side at base, 

 leptodermous, pale brown, gymnostomous, gaping widely when dry; 

 calyptra 5-lobed, annulus simple, operc. large, plano-convex, umbonate, 

 yellow. Male infl. gemmiform, at end of short branches, bracts oblong, 

 acuminate. 

 HAB. Dry rocks ; very rare. Fr. 4. 



Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh (Bell 1869) ! ! 



This has been confused by Bridel and others with G.jiaccida (DE NOT.) 

 (Gymn. pulvinatum HOFFM. Grimmia sphczrica SCHIMP.), but the latter has a 

 symmetric capsule with a straight seta, and larger leaves with smaller basal 

 cells ; it is a species which will probably be found here. Another European 

 moss, Gr. plagiofiodia HEDW. is also closely allied. 



5. GRIMMIA CRINITA Brid. 



Autoicous ; short, densely csespitose, hoary. Lower leaves ovate, 

 obtuse, upper obovate, suddenly narrowed into a long smooth hair. 

 Calyptra cucullate. Caps- subimmersed, ovate, slightly ventricose, 

 teeth purple, rimose. (T. XLVII, A.) 



SYN. Grimmia crinita BRID. Sp. muse. I, 95 (1806), Mant. 32 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 163 (1826). 

 WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 456 et 480 (1807). SCHKUHR Deutsch. kr. gew. P. II, 51, t. 

 22, figg. b, d, g. (1810). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I, 92, t. 26 (1811). VOIT Muse. herb. 

 28(1812). ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 45 (1813), Ann. Wett. ges. iii, 91. FUNCK Moost. 

 18, t. 12 (1821). NEES HORNSCH. Bry. germ, ii, P. I, 77, t. 16, f. i (1827). HUEBEN. 



