BRYACE^.] 194 [Bryum. 



36. BRYUM BARBATUM Wils. 



Dioicous; densely csespitose, soft, fastigiate branched. Leaves 

 ovate, pointed, running out into a recurved apiculus, nerve reaching 

 point or excurrent, margin erect entire, not limbate, cells hexagono- 

 rhombic. (T. LXXV, E.) 



SYN. Bryum barbatnm WILS. MSS. HUNT in Mem. Lit. Phil. Soc. Manch. 3 ser. iii, 238 (1866). 



HOBK. Syn. br. m. 114 (1873). 



Bryum Stirtoni SCHIMP. Synops. 2 ed. 470 (1876). LIMPR. in RABENH. Deutsch. kr. flora, 

 Laubm. ii, 431 (1893). 



Dioicous ; densely caespitose, soft, light green above, pale brown 

 below with rufous tomentum. Stems i|- in. high, red, slender, fastigiate 

 branched. Lower leaves smaller remote patent, ovate, shortly pointed, 

 submuticous, nerve vanishing below or in the apex, upper rather larger 

 with a recurved apiculus, nerve yellowish-green, ending at the point or 

 excurrent as a short hair ; both concave the margin erect, entire not 

 limbate, cells chlorophyllose, shortly hexagono-rhombic, larger and 

 longer at base, in the perich. bracts longer, narrower, and red at base, 

 enclosing a few archegonia and paraphyses. 



HAB. On the ground near summit of Ben Ledi. (Stirton > McKinlay 1864) ! ! 



This moss has unfortunately never been found with fruit, but in habit it 

 resembles some forms of B. pollens, though perhaps coming nearest to 

 B. capillare in form and structure of leaf. It does not appear to have been 

 found again since its first discovery, nor to have been met with in any other 

 locality. 



37. BRYUM PROLIFERUM (L.) Sibth. 



Dioicous ; laxly caespitose. Cauline leaves minute, squamiform, 

 comal large, crowded in a rosette, spathulate, apiculate, serrated, nerved 

 to apex. Capsules aggregated, oblong pendulous slightly incurved. 

 (T. LXXV, C.) 



SYN. Bryum roseum majusfoliis oblongis DILLEN. in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 92 (1724). 



Bryum stellare roseum majus, capsulis ovatis pendulis. DILLEN. Hist. muse. 411, t. 52, 

 f. 77 (1741), et Herbar. 



Mnium serpyllifolium y. proliferum L. Sp. pi. 1113 (1753). Syst. nat. ii, 101. LIGHTF. 

 Fl. scot, ii, 715 (i 777 ) 



Mnium roseum WEISS Crypt. Gotting. 157 (1770). HEDW. Sp. muse. 194 (1801). BRID. 

 Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 104 (1803), Sp. Muse. Ill, 49 (1817). SCHULTZ Fl. Starg. 348 

 (1806). WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 354 (1812). ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 96 (1813). SCHWAEG. 

 Suppl. I, P. H, 135 (1816). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 404 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 136 

 (1038). 



