BRYACE^.J 191 [Bryum. 



subpendulous, oblongo or elongate-obconic, rufo-fuscous, when dry and 

 empty obconic, slightly contracted below mouth ; lid large mamillar, 

 apiculate, rufo-fuscous, shining ; teeth rufous at base, pale at apex. 

 Male plants like the female. 



HAB. On the ground, walls, trunks of trees and thatch ; common. Fr. 4 6. 

 Var. ft. macrocarpum Hueben. 



Densely caespitose, leaves broader with a broader limb, nerve excurrent 

 in a solid brownish point. Caps, thicker, darker red. 

 SYN. B. capillare Var. (3. macrocarpum HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 442. 



B. capillare Var. ^8. majus Bry. eur. 1. c. p. 61. 



B. capillare Var. ft. cuspidatum SCHIMP. Cor. 74. 



HAB. Old walls and roofs. Killarney (Moore) ! 

 Var. y. rosulatum Mitt. 



Plants very short, caespitulose, tomentose at base. Leaves crowded in 

 rosulate heads, oval or spathulate, shortly acuminate, quite entire, the apex 

 often twisted and recurved, nerve vanishing about half way up the leaf, limb 

 of i 3 rows of very narrow cells. 



SVN. B. capillare Var. rosulatum MITT. MS. Ann. mag. nat. hist. 2 ser. viii, 367 (1851). 

 HAB. Woolsonbury hill, Sussex ; ster. (Mitten 1849) ! 



Var. 8. flaccidum Schimp. 



Stem slender, with many slender branches, often with axillary 

 chlorophyllose brood-filaments. Leaves laxer, soft, patulous, more distant, 

 not spirally twisted, narrowly limbate, undulate, serrate at point. 



SYN. Bry. eur. fasc. 6 9, p. 61, t. 29. 



B. capillare Var. angustatum BOULAY Muse, de 1'Est p. 396 (1872). 



HAB. Crow road, Campsie (Hunt 1866) ! Wall at Malham, Yorks. (Binstead 

 1885) ! ! Newtimber, Sussex (Davies). 



Var. e. Eerchelii (Funck) BY. Sch. 



Compactly tufted, dull green or brownish. Leaves appressed, small, 

 concave, obovate-acuminate, suddenly narrowed into a twisted point. 



SYN. Bryum Ferchelii FUNCK m.s. BRID. Bry. univ. i, 847. 

 B. capillare Var. Ferchelii Bry. eur. 



HAB. Old wall at Killin (Hunt 1866) ! ! 



Var. . obconicum (Hovnsch. in lit.) Hueben. 



Densely tufted ; leaves appressed or but little twisted when dry, ovate, 

 acuminate, the comal erect and incurved. Capsule with a longer neck. 



SYN. Bryum obeonicum HORNSCH. in lit. Bry. eur. WILS. Bry. brit. 



B. capillare Var. obeonicum HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 442. HUSN. Muse. gall. 241. 



HAB. Walls and sandstone rocks. 



