BRYACE^.] 183 [Bryum. 



Var. /?. meridionale (Schimp.) 



Leaves very rigid, narrower, more densely areolate ; upper cells linear- 

 hexagonal, lower longish hexagono-rectangular. 



SYN. SCHIMP. Synops. 2 ed. 441. 



HAB. On rocks by the sea. Penzance (Curnow 1862) ! ! Near Robin Hood's 

 Bay, Yorks. (Slater 1888) ! ! 



Few mosses surpass Bryum alpinum in beauty when growing in a 

 congenial locality, the blood-red capsules and claret coloured foliage with a 

 golden metallic-like lustre cannot be surpassed. 



26. BRYUM GEMMIPARUM De Not. 



Dioicous; in densely matted dingy green tufts. Leaves densely 

 imbricated, very concave, ovate, obtuse at point, marginal cells long 

 and narrow. Caps, as in B. alpinum. (T. LXXIII, Dy.) 



SYN. Bryum alpinum (3. mediterraneum DE NOT. Syllab. 129 (1838). 



Bryum gemmiparum DE NOT. Cronaca briol. ital. in Comm. II, 25 (1866), Epilogo 406 

 (1869). SCHIMP. Synops. 2 ed. 442 (1876). JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 277 (1882). 

 HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 163 (1884). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 397 (1893). 



Bryum muticum LANGE Tosk. mossor, in Bot. Tidsk. Kjobenh. (1868). 



Bryum alpinum forma ovata gemmipara BOUL. Muse, de Fr. i, 253 (1884). 



Bryum alpinum Var. gemmiparum HUSN. Muse. gall. 247 (1889). 



Dioicous ; in dense light brownish-green tufts, matted at base with 

 rufous tomentum and coated with earth. Young shoots green, i 3 

 given off below the apex of stem, often with bulbiform gemmae in axils of 

 upper leaves. Leaves dense, imbricated when dry, erecto-patent when 

 moist, lower ovate, acuminate, upper ovato-elliptic, very concave, 

 entire, narrowed into a bluntish point, margin recurved in the lower 

 half, nerve yellowish, ending in the apex or just below it ; cells 

 chlorophyllose, rhomboid-hexagonal, rather laxer at base, quadrate at 

 angles, gradually longer and narrower at margin so as almost to form 

 a limb. Caps, ovato- or oblongo-pyriform, reddish brown, inclined or 

 pendulous, lid convex shortly apiculate, teeth yellowish, processes pale, 

 gaping. Male plants intermixed, innermost bracts nerveless. 



HAB. Wet rocks in limestone districts of South Europe. Fr. 4 5. 



Rocks by R. Usk near Senny bridge, Monmouth (Boswell and Ley 1883) ! ! and in 

 R. Gnvyne, Brecon (Rev. A. Ley 1890) ! ! 



I find 'this is nearer B. Muehlenbeckii than B. alpinum to which I had 

 referred it. It differs in the young shoots being green, the leaves thinner, soft, 



