BARTRAMIACE^.] 205 [Bartramia. 



the comal larger, lanceolate-subulate, minutely serrate above; nerve 

 yellow, excurrent in the subula, cells rectangular papillose on both 

 sides, 35 rows at basal angles laxer and more quadrate. Seta 

 straight, quadrangular at summit; caps, erect or slightly cernuous, 

 ovato-globose, regular, castaneous, finely striate, contracted and sulcate 

 when dry; lid convex or mamillar; peristome orange, sometimes 

 perforated in the dorsal line, endostome wanting. 



HAB. On earth and rocks in hollow ways, very rare. Fr. 5. 



Near Maresfield, Sussex (Davies 1864) ! ! 



A very distinct moss, inhabiting principally the Mediterranean region ; 

 in habit it resembles B. ithyphylla, but differs in the non-sheathing base 

 of leaf. 



3. BARTRAMIA POMIFORMIS (L.) Hedw. 



Autoicous ; dichotomous fastigiate-branched. Leaves crisped when 

 dry, linear lanceolate, scabrous, serrated. Capsule cernuous, spherical. 

 (T. LXXVI, C.) 



SYN. Muscus trichodes tnedius, capitulis sphcericis Doody RAY Synops. App. 243 (1690). 



Bryum trichoidcs virescens, ercctis majusculis capitulis maliformibus DILL. Cat. Giss. 224 

 (1718). 



Bryum capillaceum, capsulis sphfericis DILL. Hist. muse. 339, t. 44, f. i A B (1741) et Herb. 



Bryum pomiforme L. Sp. pi. 1115 (1753), Syst. Nat. ii. 70. HUDS. Fl. angl. 404 (1762). 

 WEISS Crypt, goett. 181 (1770). NECK. Meth. muse. 208 (1771). WITHER. Bot. arr. ii, 

 671 (1776). LIGHTF. Fl. scot, ii, 717 (1777). WEBER. Spic. fl. gott. 119 (1778). RELHAN 

 Fl. cant. Suppl. 3, 10 (1793). VILL. PI. Dauph. iii. 878 (1786). ABBOT Fl. bedf. 240 

 (1798). HULL Br. fl. P. 2, 259 (1799). 



Webera pomiformis HEDW. Fund, ii, 95 (1782). ROTH Tent. fl. germ, i, 477 (1788). 

 Mniuni pomiforme L. JUN. Meth. muse. 364 (1787). 



Bartramia pomiformis HEDW. Sp. muse. 164 (1801). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 131,1. i, 

 f. 3 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 83 (1817), Mant. 116 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 39 (1827). SM. Fl. 

 brit. 1540 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 998. TURN. Muse. hib. 108 (1804). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, 

 P. II, 45, t. 68 (1816). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. brit. 85, t. 23 (1818). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 

 p. 139 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 66 (1833). GRAY Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 750 (1821). HUEBEN. Muse, 

 germ. 506 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 99 (1838), Epilogo 263 (1869), BR. SCH. Bry. eur. 

 Fasc. 12, p. 13, t. 4 (1842). RABENH. D. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 191 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. 

 i, 400 (1840). WILS. Bry. brit. 281, t. 23 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 418 (1860), 2 ed. 511. 

 BERK. Handb. br. m. 170, t. 16, f. 2 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 238 (1869). HOBK. 

 Synops. 131 (1873). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 132 (1873), Muse. gall. 266, t. 73 (1890). 

 JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 327 (1882). BOUL. Muse, de Fr. 219 (1884). LESQ. JAMES 

 Moss. N. Amer. 206 (1884). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 543 (1893). 



Bartramia vulgaris LAMK DE CAND. Fl. franc, i, 509 (1865). 



Bartramia crisfa (3 minor Sw. MSS. WEB. MOHR. Bot. Tasch. 272 (1807). WAHLENB. 



Fl. lapp. 362 (1812). 

 Bartramia crispa ft. pomiformis LIND. Muse, scand. 15 (1879). 



Autoicous; in small cushioned tufts, soft, glaucous or yellow-green 

 above, fuscous below with rusty tomentum. Leaves erecto-patent and 



