GRIMMIACE^E.] 53 [Gfyphomitrium. 



Glyphomitrlum Daviesii BRID. Mant. 31 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 268 (1826). SCHWAEG. 

 Suppl. II, P. I, 41, t. 113 (1823). MACK. Fl. hibern. P. 2, 21 (1836). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. 

 fasc. 2 3, p. 3, t. i (1837). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 766 (1849). WILS. Bry. br. 172,1. 13 

 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 246 (1860), 2 ed. 292. BERK. Handb. br. m. 232, t. 21 (1863). 

 HOBK. Syn. br. m. 88 (1873). HUSN. Muse. gall. 146, t. 42 (1887). 



Autoicous ; short, in small dense obscure-green cushions. Leaves 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate, incurved and crisped when dry, acute, 

 carinate, margin entire, slightly incrassate, plane or somewhat reflexed 

 below, nerve strong, continued to apex ; cells above small, rotundate- 

 quadrate and angular, basal rectangular larger, hyaline. Perich. bracts 

 large convolute, recurved at the suddenly narrowed apex. Calyptra 

 pale yellowish-brown, large ventricose, covering all capsule, plicate, 

 contracted at base, laciniate at margin. Caps, on a short thickish 

 rufous seta, pale yellowish brown with a red mouth, subglobose when 

 dry and empty, wide-mouthed and contracted below the orifice ; lid 

 rostrate, nearly as long as caps. ; teeth 16, in pairs, inserted below 

 mouth of caps., red, widely lanceolate, reflexed when dry, trabeculse 

 somewhat crowded, prominent at back, margin hyaline ; spores large, 

 green. Male infl. axillar, gemmiform, bracts ovate, acuminate. 



Hab. Crevices of basaltic and granite rocks. Fr. 6 7. 



Snowdon (Davies). Llanberis and Anglesea (Wilson) ! ! Giant's Causeway, Fairhead, 

 Antrim and Bantry (Moore) ! ! Kilpatrick (S;> J. D. Hooker). Bowling (B. Salt 

 1864) ! Arcs, Mull (Hunt 1859) ! ! Ardtun, Mull (D. Black 1864) ! Skye (Hunt). 

 Campsie hills (Thompson and Gait). Cock's Tor, Devon (Brent 1868). Slieve Donard 

 (Lett). 



2. GLYPHOMITRIUM POLYPHYLLTJM (Dicks.) Mitt. 



Autoicous; robust in soft yellow green tufts. Leaves patent, 

 lanceolate-acuminate, remotely and coarsely toothed in upper part, 

 plicate. Caps, on a tall seta, cylindrico-elliptic, lid subulate, teeth very 

 long, with rough slender legs. (T. LIII, C.) 



SYN. Bryum trichodes, crectis sublongis capitulis, extremitatibus per siccitatem stellatis DILL. 

 in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 98 (1724). 



Bryum cirratum, setis et capsulis brevioribus et pluribus DILL. Hist. muse. 378, t. 48, 

 fig. 41 (1741), et Herb. 



Bryum cirratum Var. /?. HUDS. Fl. angl. 409 (1762). 



Bryum polyphyllum DICKS. PI. crypt, fasc. Ill, 7 (1793). WITH. Bot. arr. br. veg. 3 ed. 



iii, 825 (1796). HULL Br. fl. P. 2, 260 (1799). 

 Dicranum polyphyllum SWARTZ in SCHRAD. Journ. iv, 178 (1801). SM. Fl. brit. iii, 1225 



(1804); Eng. Bot. t. 1217. BRID. Sp. muse. I, 202 (1806). 

 Trichostomum cirratum SM. Fl. brit. 1239. 

 Trichostomum polyphyllum TURN. Muse. hib. 85, t. 7 (1804). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I, 



I 53. t. 39 (1811). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. brit. 62, t. 19 (1818). FUNCK Moostasch. 26, 



t. 18 (1821). GRAY Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 741 (1821). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 135 (1821), 



Br. fl. ii, 34(1833). 



