GRIMMIACE^.J 5 [Pleurozygodon. 



Common in mountains. Teesdale (Spruce). With fruit, Clova mountains (Arnott). 

 Dobb's Linn, Moffat (Bell 1861). Campsie (Stirton 1863) ! Glenballyeman, 

 Cushendall, Antrim, i capsule (Moore 1863). 



Taller than the last, and of a bright yellow-green colour, growing in 

 large patches ; the leaves also are much longer and more acuminate, and 

 occasionally are obscurely serrulate towards apex ; the capsule long and 

 narrow, with the bands less distinct. 



5. PLEUROZYGODON Lindb. 



Utkast till en nat. grupp. Eur. bladm. 35 (1878). 



Plants erect, densely pulvinate, csespitose ; leaves accrescent upward, 

 lanceolate, densely papillose, the cells minute and opaque above. Peri- 

 chetium lateral, of 9 12 sheathing bracts ; seta elongated. Calyptra 

 cucullate, subulate rostrate. Caps, ovate with a swollen neck, lepto- 

 dermous, smooth, gymnostomous ; lid obliquely rostrate. Der. TrXcvpa 

 the side, and vyooW. 



Besides the single European species, some 14 others have been 

 described, about equally divided between the Andes and the Himalayas. 

 Ancect. Hornschuchii FUNCK, and its Var. Sendtneri BR. SCH. belong to a 

 distinct genus Molendoa LINDB. 



PLEUROZYGODON JESTIVUS (Hedw.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; in dense matted tufts. Leaves accrescent upward, 

 lanceolate, acute, carinate, papillose. Caps, lateral, leptodermous, 

 ovate-oblong, smooth ; lid obliquely rostrate. (T. LIV, A.) 



SYN. Gymnostomum czstivum HEDW. Sp. muse. 32, t. 2, f. 4 7 (1801). WEB. MOHR. Bot. 

 Tasch. 89 (1807). SCHKUHR Deutsch. kr. gew. P. II, 26, t. n (1810). SCHWAEG. 

 Suppl. I, P. I, 30 (1811). ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 40 (1813). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. 

 br. 10, t. 6 (1818). GRAY Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 714 (1821). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 122 

 (1821). NEES HSCH. Dry. germ, i, 173, t. n, f. 25 (1823). HARTM. Skand. fl. 381. 



Gymnostomum compacttim SCHLEICH. Cr. helv. cent. II, n. 7 (1805). BRID. Bry. univ. i. 

 86 (1826). 



(?) Gymnostomum luteohun SM. Eng. Bot. t, 2201 (1810). 



Ancectangium compaction SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I, 36, t. n (1811). BRID. Mant. 23 



(1819). FUNCK Moost. 8, t. 5 (1821). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 61 (1833). BR. SCH. Bry. 



eur. fasc. 2930, p. 5, t. i (!8 4 6). RABENH. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 243 (1848). WILS. 



Bry. bnt. 311, t, 6 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 46 (1860), 2 ed. 47. BERK. Handb. br. 



m. 155, t. 14 (1863). DE NOT. Epil. bri. ital. 253 (1869). MILDE Bry. siles. 109 (1869). 



HOBK Syn. br. m. 139 (1873). JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 17 (1882). BOULAY Fl. 



cr. de 1 Est 579 (1872). HUSN. Muse. gall. 10, t. 3 (1884). LIMPR. in RABENH. kr. fl. 



2 ed. band IV, 244, fig. 92 (x886). 

 Gymnostomum tristichon WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 303 (1812). 



Hedwigia astiva HOOK. Br. fl. ii, 68 (1833). MACK. Fl. hib. P. 2, n (1836). DE NOT. 

 93 (1035]. 



Zygodon compactus C. MUELL. Synops. i, 633 (1849). 



Ancectangium astivum MITT, in Journ. Linn. soc. Bot. xii, 175 (1869). 



Pleurozygodon cestivus LINDB. Utkast, &c., 35 (1878). 



