BRYACE^.] 188 (Bryum. 



Dioicous; in dense olivaceous green tufts, interwoven with brown 

 tomentum. Stems erect, 26 in. high, red, rigid, slightly branched. 

 Leaves accrescent upward, comant, erecto-patent, decurrent at base, 

 oblong-lane., gradually apiculate, slightly serrulate at point, nerve 

 strong, rufous, prolonged into the point ; margin reflexed, with a yellow 

 limb of 3 5 rows of narrow cells, upper cells incrassate, rhombo- 

 hexagonal, basal red, rectangular. Capsule on a long purple seta, 

 pendulous, ferruginous, elongate-obconic, often slightly curved upward 

 and subventricose beneath, constricted below the mouth when dry ; lid 

 of the same colour, mamillar, glossy ; peristome pale red. Male infl. 

 subdiscoid-gemmiform, the bracts broadly ovato-cordate, acuminate, 

 nerved. 



HAB. Moorland bogs and wet rocks by streams, not uncommon. 

 Fr. 67. 



Var. /3. compactum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. 1. c. 



Stems short, compactly tufted. Capsule shorter, obovate, with a more 

 pointed lid. 



HAB. On the higher mountains. Southport (Whitehead 1863) ! 



This moss often grows in large patches, and when loaded with fruit has 

 a very beautiful appearance. On moorland banks where water is always 

 trickling down, it may generally be found in perfection, and is a more robust 

 plant than B. bimum, from which it is best distinguished by the dioicous 

 inflorescence and more or less ventricose capsule. 



31. BRYUM NEODAMENSE Itzigs. 



Dioicous ; in lax brownish green tufts. Leaves lax, remote, upper 

 obovate-oblong, somewhat cucullate, limbate, nerved to apex. Caps, 

 pendulous, obovate, constricted below mouth. (T. LXXIV, C.) 



SYN. Bryum ncodamense ITZIGSOHN in Flora 1841, I, p. 360. C. MUELL. Synops. i, 258 

 (1848). HOBK. Synops. 112(1873). SCHIMP. Synops. 2 ed. 460 (1876). JURATZ. Laubm. 

 oest.-ung. 290 (1882). BOUL. Muse. Fr. i, 260 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 250, t. 68 

 (1889). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 427 (1893). 



Bryum pscudotriquctrum 8 cavifolium SCHIMP. Coroll. 76 (1856), Synops. 376 (1860). 

 MILDE Bry. siles. 219 (1869). 



Bryum cavifolium WILS. MSS. 



Dioicous ; in tall lax brownish green tufts, interwoven with brown 

 radicles. Stems slender, lax-leaved, red, dense leaved at apex. Lower 

 leaves small, distant, ovate, obtuse, the nerve ending below apex, upper 

 comant, larger, patent, decurrent, obovate and elliptic-oblong, very 



