GRIMMIACE^.] 38 [Grimmia. 



30. GRIMMIA ACICULAB1S (L.} C. Muell. 



Dioicous ; robust, rigid, in lax dark green tufts. Leaves broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, muticous, obsoletely denticulate at apex, recurved at 

 margin. Capsule ovate or subcylindric, lid acicular ; teeth cleft nearly 

 to base in 2 3 unequal legs. (T. LI, C.) 



SYN. Muscus aquations pileis acutis MERR. Pinax 74 (1667). RAY Synops. 2 ed. 323 (1696). 

 Bryum hypiioides, erectum montanum, erectls capitulis acutis DILL, in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 



94, n. 12 (1724). 

 Bryum hypiioides repcns aquaticum, erectis capitulis acutis DILL, in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 94, 



n. 13. 

 Bryum montanum hemiheterophyllum, operculis acutis DILL. Hist. muse. 366, t. 46, f. 25 



(1741) et Herb. 

 Bryum hypnoides aquaticum calyptris nigris acutis DILL. Hist. muse. 367. n. 26, t. 46, f. 26 



A B. et Herb. 

 Bryum aciculare L. Sp. pi. 1118 (1753), Syst. nat. ii, 702. HUDS. Fl. angl. 407 (1762). 



WITH. Bot. arr. br. veg. ii, 674 (1776). LIGHTF. Fl. scot, ii, 725 (1777). EHRH. Hann. 



mag. 1782, p. 364. ROTH Tent. fl. germ, i, 473 (1788). HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 37 



(1796). HULL Br. fl. Part 2, 261 (1799). 

 Hypnum aciculare SCOP. Fl. earn. 2 ed. ii, 335 (1772). 

 Dicranuin aciculare HEDW. Fund. II, 92 (1782), Stirp. cr. iii, 79,1.33 (1792), Sp. muse. 135 



(1801). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. I, 162 (1798), Sp. muse. I, 139 (1806). SWARTZ Muse. 



suec. 35 (1798). ROTH Tent. fl. germ, iii, 164 (1800). ROEHL. Moosg. Deutsch. 344 



(1800). SMITH Fl. brit. 1212 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1978. TURN. Muse. hib. 67 (1804). 



Bryum nigrescent VILL. Hist. pi. Dauph. iii, P. 2, 881, t. 54 (1789). 

 Mnium aciculare GMEL. (L.) Syst. nat. 13 ed. ii, P. 2, 1328 (1791). 

 Bryum rivulare HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 37, in obs. (1796) ? 



Trichostomum aciculare P. BEAUV. Prodr. 90 (1805). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 119 

 (1807). SCHKUHR Deutsch. kr. gew. P. II, 74, t. 35 (1810). SCHWAEGR. Suppl. I, P. I, 

 157 (1811). VOIT Muse. herb. 26 (1812). ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 64 (1813). HOOK. 

 TAYL. Muse. br. 62, t. 19 (1818). FUNCK Moost. 27, t. 18 (1821). GRAY Nat. arr. br. 

 pi. i, 740 (1821). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 135 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 34 (1833). MACK. Fl. hibern. 

 P. 2, 20 (1836). 



Trichostomum aciculare a. obtusifolium W. ARM. in Mem. soc. d'hist. nat. Par. ii, 271 

 (1825). 



Trichostomum obtusifolium P. BEAUV. Prodr. 91. BRID. Sp. muse. 289. 



Rhacomitrium obtusifolium BRID. Mant. 80 (1819), Bry. un. i, 221. 



Rhacomitrium aciculare BRID. Mant. 80 ; Bry. univ. i, 219. DE NOT. Syllab. 257 (1838), 

 Epil. bri. ital. 677 (1869). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 211 (1833). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 

 2528 p. 5, t. i (1845). RABENH. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 156 (1848). AONGST. in 

 FRIES Summ. veg. sc. 92 (1846). HARTM. Skand. fl. WILS. Bry. br. 165, t. 19 (1855). 

 SCHIMP. Synops. 228 (1860), 2 ed. 274. ZETTER. Rev. Grimm, scand. no (1861). 

 BERK. Handb. br. m. 236 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 157 (1869). HOBK. Syn. br. m. 86 

 (1873). HUSN. mouss. nord-ouest 95 (1873), Muse. gall. 139 t. 40 (1887). LINDB. in 

 Act. soc. sc. fenn. X, 555 (1875). JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 176 (1882). CHALUB. 

 Grimm. Tatr. 87, t. 13 (1882). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 363 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. 

 N. Amer. 147 (1884). 



Campylopus acicularis WAHLEN. Fl. suec. ii, 749 (1826). 

 Grimmia acicularis C. MUELL. Synops. i, 801 (1849). 



Dioicous ; in lax robust dark green incoherent tufts, blackish at 

 base. Plants 13 in. high, rigid, decumbent and naked at base. 

 Leaves appressed when dry, erecto-patent when moist, subsecund at 

 apex, broadly ovate-oblong, canaliculate-complicate, here and there 



