BRYACE^.] 149 [Pohlia. 



Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 208 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 335 (1849). WILS. Bry. 

 br. 225, t. 29 (1855). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 120 (1873). HOBK. Syn. br. m. no 

 (1873). BOUL. Muse, de Fr. i, 284 (1884). 



Bryum aureum /?. majtis WEB. Spic. fl. Goett. 115 (1778). 



Bryum sericcum HUDS. Fl. angl. 2 ed. 487 (1778). SIBTH. Fl. oxon. 292 (1794). WITHER. 



Bot. arr. 3 ed. iii, 839 (1796). HULL Br. Fl. P. 2, 265 (1799). 

 Webera nutans HEDW. Muse, frond, i, 10, t. 4 (1787), Sp. muse. 168 (1801). ROTH Tent. 



Fl. germ, i, 477 (1788). TIMM Prodr. Fl. megap. n. 856 (1788). SCHRANK Bayers, fl. 



ii, 483 (1789). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 125 (1803). Sp. muse. Ill, 36 (1817). 



SCHULTZ Fl. starg. 354 (1806). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I, 67 (1811). FUNCK Moost. 



39,1.25(1821). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 429(1833). SCHIMP. Coroll. 66 (1856), Synops. 



332 (1860), 2 ed. 396. BERK. Handb. Br. m. 201 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles, 201 (1869). 



DE NOT. Epilogo 427 (1869). JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 251 (1882). LESQ. 



JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 217 (1884). HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 154 (1884). HUSN. Muse. 



gall. 228, t. 61 (1889). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 249 (1892). 

 Mniunt nutans HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 49 (1796). P. BEAUV. Prodr. 75 (1805). 

 Bryum interruptum DICKS. Crypt, fasc. IV, 13, t. n,f. 6 (1801). SM. Fl. brit. 1363 (1804). 

 Bryum compaction (non DICKS.) TURN. Muse, hib, 124 (1804). 

 Hypnum nutans WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch, 287 (1807). 

 Bryum Webera r.utans BRID. Bry. univ. i, 634 (1826). 

 Lamprophyllum nutans LINDB. Rev. crit. ic. Fl. dan. 25 (1871). 

 Pohlia nutans LINDB. Muse, scand. 18 (1879). 



Paroicous ; densely casspitant 2 in. high. Leaves imbricated, 

 erect, shining pale green, with the margin reflexed above the middle, 

 lower ovato-lanc., entire, upper gradually longer, lineal-lane., serrate at 

 apex, sericeo-nitent, nerve reddish, rather thick, ending at or below 

 apex, cells narrow, elongated. Seta reddish-yellow, variable in length, 

 hooked at apex; caps, leptodermous, subpendulous, oblong or obovate 

 with a short-neck, wide-mouthed, from yellow becoming fuscescent, 

 when old rufescent, when dry and empty, contracted below mouth ; 

 lid broadly convex, mammillate, annulus broad, revoluble ; teeth orange, 

 pale at the filiform points ; membrane of endostome pale yellow, the 

 processes widely gaping, and with two cilia as long as teeth. Antheridia 

 axillary in pairs. 

 HAB. Sandy or turfy heaths, common. Fr. 5 6. 



Var. /?. longiseta (Brid.) 



Stems short, simple ; comal leaves narrower, longer, acuminate, 

 patent ; caps, on a very long seta, pendulous, large, thick. 



SYN. Bryum Webera longiseta BRID. Bry. univ. i, 636. 

 Bryum nutans Var. longisetum Bry. eur. 



HAB. On damp heaths and open drains. 



Putney Heath (Braithwaite 1865)!! Woolston moss (Wilson 1838)!! Great Mis-tor, 

 Devon (Holmes). Co. Down, Ireland (Stewart 1882) ! ! 



Var. y. bi color (Hoppe & Hornsch.} 



More compact, comal leaves shorter, erect, leaves of the sterile shoots 

 ovate, acute with an excurrent nerve ; caps, cernuous, thick, darker coloured 

 on the upper surface. 



