BRYACE.E.] 165 [Bryum. 



5. BRYUM PENDULUM (Hornsch.) Schimp. 



Synoicous ; compactly tufted. Leaves ovate acuminate, concave, 

 recurved at margin, nerve excurrent. Caps, ventricose pyriform with a 

 small mouth, endostome adherent. (T. LXX, A.) 



SYN. Cynontodium cernuum HEDW. Sp. muse. 58, t. 9 (1801). P. BEAUV. Prodr. 52 (1805). 

 Cynodontium cernuum SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I, no (1811). 

 Cynodon cernuus BRID. Mant. 99 (1819), p.p. 

 Ptychostomum cernuum HORNSCH. Flora V, Syll. I, p. 64 (1822). BRID. Bry. univ. i, 600 



(1826). WAHLEN. Fl. Suec. 728 (1826). HUEBEN. muse. germ. 493 (1833). 

 Ptychostomum pendulum HORNSCH. Flora I.e. BRID. Bry. univ. i, 599 (1826). 

 Bryum cernuum BR. SCH. Bry. eur. Fasc. 6 9, p. 14, t. i (1839). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 



266 (1849). RABENH. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, s. 3, 201 (1848). WILS. Bry. br. 235, t. 48 



(1855). HARTM. Skand. fl. HOBK. Synops. 115 (1873). 

 Bryum pendulum SCHIMP. Coroll. 70 (1856), Synops. 349 (1860), 2 ed. 414. BERK. 



Handb. br. m. 189 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 205 (1869). DE NOT. Epil. 387 (1869). 



HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 119 (1873). Muse. gall. 235, t. 63 (1889). JURATZ. Laubm. 



oest.-ung. 261 (1882). HOBK. Syn. 2 ed. 157 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 



225 (1884). BOUL. Muse, de Fr. i, 275 (1884). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 



293 (1892). 



Synoicous ; sometimes also with gemmiform male infl. intermixed ; 

 densely caespitant and tomentose, dull green with short branches. 

 Comal leaves densely crowded, erecto-patent, ovato-lanc., carinate 

 concave, the nerve stout, far excurrent, margin more or less reflexed, 

 narrowly limbate, serrulate or entire at extreme apex, all rather rigid ; 

 cells dense, rhombic above, rectangular and red at base. Caps, rich 

 brown, pendulous, from a neck swollen at base shorter than the 

 sporangium, oval or ovato-globose, slightly contracted below the mouth, 

 shorter or longer, lid rather small, broadly conic, acutely apiculate ; 

 annulus broad ; teeth of peristome reddish-yellow at base, and according 

 to Husnot traversed on the back by many fine sinuous lines, endostome 

 adherent, the processes only partly free, cilia rudimentary. 



HAB. On walls, rocks and waste ground ; not uncommon. Fr. 5. 



Very variable in size and form of capsule and differing from B. inclina turn 

 by the broader leaves and more ventricose capsule with adherent endostome, 

 and from B. caspiticium by the small mouth of capsule, the infl. and endostome. 



6. BRYUM PURPURASCENS (R. Br.} Br. Sch. 



Synoicous ; plants slender dull green, purplish at apex. Leaves 

 ovato-lanc., mucronate with the excurrent nerve, narrowly limbate, 

 slightly recurved at margin. Caps, pendulous, oblongo-pyriform, lid 

 hemispherical, cilia imperfect. (T. LXXII, A.) 



