SPLACHNACEjE.l lOQ [Splacknum. 



2. SPLACHNTJM VASCULOSUM L. 



Dioicous, deep green. Leaves ovate, obtuse, entire. Caps, 

 cylindric, with a large globose dark purple hypophysis. (T. LXI, B.) 



SYN. Splachnum vascnlosum L. Sp. pi. 2 ed. 1572 (1763), Syst. nat. ii, 699. EHRH. Hann. 

 Mag. 1784, p. 142. HEDW. Muse, frond, ii, 44, t. 15 (1788), Sp. muse. 53 (1801). 

 HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 23 (1795). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. I, no (1798) ; Sp. muse. P. 

 I, 152 (1806) ; Mant. 107 (1819) ; Bry. univ. i, 257 (1826). SVVARTZ Muse. suec. 23 

 (1798). P. BEAUV. Prodr. 89 (1805). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 100 (1807). SCHKUHR 

 Deutsch. kr. gew. P. II, 41, t. 17 (1810). Fl. dan. t. 1413 (1810). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, 

 P. I, 57 (1811). WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 308 (1812). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. br. 21, t. 31 

 (1818). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 125 (1821) ; Br. Fl. ii, 16 (1833). FUNCK Moost. ii, t. 7 

 (1821). GRAY Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 719 (1821). GREV. Scott, er. fl. t. 179 (1826). 

 HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 78 (1833). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 23 24. p. ii, t. 7 (1844). 

 RABENH. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, s. 3, 94 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. i. 145 (1849). WILS. 

 Bry. br. 288, t. 31 (1855). SCHIMP. Syn. 308 (1860), 2 ed. 368. BERK. Handb-. br. m. 

 166, t. 15, f. 5 (1863). MILDE Bry. Siles. 187 (1869). HOBK. Syn. br. m. 133 (1873). 

 LESQ. JAMES. Moss. N. Amer. 194 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 206, t. 56 (1888). 



Splachnum rugosum DICKS. Crypt. Fasc. iv, t. 10, f. 7 (1801). SM. Fl. brit. 1173 ; Eng. 

 Bot. t. 2094. BRID. WEB. MOHR. SCHKUHR. 



S. vasculosum Var. acutifolia GREV. Scott, cr. fl. t. 311. 



Dioicous ; in soft swelling deep green tufts, black at base. Stems 

 nearly simple or innovating, radiculose, i 3 in. high. Leaves large, 

 distant, narrow at base, lower suborbiculate, upper broadly ovate, some- 

 what acuminate, obtuse, entire, nerve thin vanishing below apex ; cells 

 oblong-hexagonal. Caps, shortly cylindric, rufous, seta pale red, long 

 as stem, hypophysis large spherical, minutely tubercular, dark purple- 

 brown, wrinkled when dry and becoming black by age ; lid convex, 

 yellow ; teeth conjoined in pairs, shorter, orange. Male plants more 

 slender, often in separate tufts, the leaves smaller and more remote, 

 infl. terminal, the bracts from a broadly oval sheathing base, longly 

 acuminate, obtuse. 



HAB. Wet peaty places in the Highlands. Fr. 7. 



Ben Lawers (Mackay 1803) ! ! Clova (Don). Ben More of Dochart. Fewla burn and 

 Loch Brandy (Gardiner) \ ! Glass Mhiel (J. B. Syme 1851). Glen Prosen (Fergusson 

 1868) ! ! 



A fine moss only found at considerable elevations and in boggy places, 

 the old capsule becoming singularly wrinkled and pitted. 



3. SPLACHNUM PEDUffCULATUM (Huds.) 



Dioicous ; laxly tufted. Leaves spreading, obovate-acuminate, entire 

 or serrated, nerved to apex. Capsule subcylindric, hypophysis ovate 

 or subspherical, teeth large, lineal, reflexed. (T. LXI, C.) 



