BRYACE^.] 177 [Bryum. 



Hedge bank, Southport (Wild 1882) ! ! Mortar of a bridge near Kendal (Binstead 



This common moss varies very much according to locality, and when 

 growing in wet shady places quite loses its silvery appearance. Bryum 

 Barnesii SCHIMP. appears to be only a form starved by growth among sand. 



19. BRYUM BICOLOR Dicks. 



Dioicous ; stems short, branched, dull green. Leaves erecto- 

 patent or appressed, ovato-lanc. or ovate, concave, margin reflexed, 

 nerve reaching point or slightly excurrent. Caps, oval, short, constricted 

 below the lid. (T. LXXII, D.) 



SYN. Bryum pendulum, surculis teretibus viridibus DILL. Hist. muse. 394, t. 50, fig. 63, 

 A, B, E, et fig. 66, A, F, G (1741), et Herbar. 



Bryum bicolor DICKS. PI. crypt, fasc. 4, 16 (1801). SM. Fl. brit. 1355 (1804). TURN. 

 Muse. hit. 121, t. ii, f. 2 (1804). 



Bryum dichotomum HEDW. Sp. muse. 183, t. 42 (1801). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 22 

 (1805), Mant. 117 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 646 (1826). MITT. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xii, 

 301 (1869). 



Mnium bicolor et M. dichotomum P. BEAUV. Prodr. 74 (1805). 



Bryum atropurpureum WEB. MOHR Ind. mus. in WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 360 (1812). 

 HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 449 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 120 (1838), Epilogo 399 (1869). 

 BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 69, p. 73, t. 37 (1839). RABENH. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 218 

 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 306 (1849). WILS. Bry. br. 244, t. 50 (1855). SCHIMP. 

 Synops. 364 (1860), 2 ed. 438. BERK. Handb. br. m. 194 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 

 214 (1869). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 124 (1873), Muse. gall. 244, t. 66 (1889). JURATZ. 

 Laubm. oest.-ung. 272 (1882). LEBQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 232 (1884). HOBK. 

 Synops. 2 ed. 162 (1884). BOUL. Muse, de Fr. i, 249 (1884). 



Bryum pulchellum (3. atropurpureum WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 360 (1812). SCHWAEG. Suppl. 

 I, P. II, 91 (1816). 



Bryum erythrocarpon (non SCHWAEG.) BRID. Sp. Muse. Ill, 18 (1817), Mant. 118 (1819), 

 Bry. univ. i, 654 (1826). WALLR, Fl. cr. germ, i, 270 (1831). HOBK. Syn. Br. m. 118 

 (1873). 



Bryum caspiticium HOOK. TAYL. Muse. br. 121, p.p. (1818). 



Bryum carneum ft. pusillum SCHULTZ Suppl. Fl. starg. 84 (1819). 



Bryum bulbillosum MONT. Ann. des sc. nat. 2 Ser. xvi, 268 (1841). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 

 301 (1849). 



Dioicous; in dense light green patches, the stems branched, 

 radiculose. Lower leaves small, distant, lane., the upper crowded in a 

 laxly imbricated coma, much larger, ovate-acuminate, concave, shortly 

 apiculate with the excurrent nerve, margin entire, reflexed towards base, 

 cells lax, rhombo-hexagonal, at base rectangular. Caps, on a short 

 flexuose red seta, arcuate above, pendulous, from a swollen neck rugulose 

 when dry, broadly oval, from reddish yellow, blood red, and finally 

 black-purple, very slightly contracted below mouth when dry ; lid large, 

 wider than mouth of caps., convex, apiculate, blood red, shining, teeth 



