GRIMMIACE^E.] 3 2 



\Grimmia. 



Dryptodon sudeticus BRID. Bry. un. i, 195. WALLR. Fl. cr. germ, i, 136 (1831). 

 Rhacomitrium microcarpon ft. sudeticum HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 202 (1833). HARTM. 



Skand. fl. 4 ed. 389 (1843). 



Trichostomtim gracile HORNSCH. MSS. HUEBEN. 1. c. ut synon. 

 Grimmia proccra DE NOT. in Mem. ace. Torin. xl. 339 (1838), Syllab. 252 (1838), Epil. 



bri. it. 695 (1869). 

 Rhacomitrium sudeticum BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 2528; p. 7, t. 1(1845). RABENH. 



Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 157 (1848). WILS. Bry. brit. 166, t. 19 (1855). SCHIMP. 



Synops. 230 (1860), 2 ed. 276. ZETTERST. Rev. Grimm, scand. 115 (1861). BERK. 



Handb. br. m. 235 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 157 (1869). HOBK. Syn. br. m. 87 



(1873). JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 178 (1882). CHALUB. Grimm. Tatr. 92, t. 13 



(1882). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 361 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 149 (1884). 



HUSN. Muse. gall. 139,1. 40 (1887). 



Grimmia microcarpa forma procera C. MUELL. Synops. i, 805 (1849). 

 Grimmia microcarpa LINDB. Act. soc. sc. fenn. X, 558 (1875). 



Dioicous; laxly caespitose, plane, olivaceous or squalid-green, 

 slightly canescent at tips. Stems slender, somewhat elongated, naked 

 below, sparingly fastigiate-branched. Leaves erect when dry, divaricate 

 and patulous when moist, longly lane., acuminate with acute hoary 

 dentate points, lower muticous, towards base carinate-concave with 

 reflexed margins, above subcomplicate ; cells in one stratum, at base 

 sinuoso-rectangular, with a row of broader quadrate ones at margin, 

 above roundish-quadrate with i 3 rows at margin bistratose, the nerve 

 stout, flattish at back. Perich. bracts sheathing, more laxly areolate, 

 with the nerve vanishing. Capsule on a short yellowish seta, erect, 

 very small, elliptic, light brown, olivaceous when young, leptodermous ; 

 calyptra mitrseform, nearly smooth at apex, lid acutely rostrate, f length 

 of caps., annulus broad, of 4 rows of cells, rolling back, teeth more or 

 less bipartite, red, erecto-patent when dry. Male plant more slender, 

 bracts ovate, acute. 

 HAB. Moist alpine rocks. Fr. 4 5. 



Ben Lawers (Greville) \ ! Mountains of Connemara and Wicklow (Moore). Dartmoor 

 (Holmes). Cheesewring, Cornwall (Brent). Ingleboro' and Clapdale, Cheviots 

 (Winch). Ben Laoigh (Swing). Glen Torridon (Hunt). 



This species as well as G. elongata having straight setae are removed from 

 the G. tricJiophylla group, to which in their sterile state they would undoubtedly 

 be referred, for G. microcarpa has in no form the peculiar ramification of 

 Trichostomum, though its sinuose-crenulate cells represent those of that 

 section. Grimmia affinis has the greatest resemblance to it, but in G. microcarpa 

 the leaves have much narrower points, and the lower cells are shorter and 

 wider. 



25. GRIMMIA CAMPESTRIS Burchell. 



Dioicous ; short laxly tufted, canescent. Leaves broadly oblongo- 

 lanc., suddenly running into long rough hairs. Caps, on a straight 



