BARTRAMIACE^.] 215 \Breutelia. 



A peculiar plant coming nearest to P. seviata in the form and direction of 

 the leaves. Bartramia (Philonotis) appressa*HooK. fil. WILS. a New Zealand 

 moss, had been previously named by them Hypnum scabrifolium, which may be 

 retained for it as Philonotis scalvifolia. 



4. BREUTELIA Schimp. 



Coroll. 85 (1856). 



Plants robust, coated with rufous tomentum, irregularly branched. 

 Leaves squarrosely patent in 8 rows, with 3 4 deep plaits on each side, 

 cells incrassate, linear. Capsule drooping, peristome as in Bartramia. 

 Inhabiting the ground and wet rocks. Der. after C. Breutel, bishop of 

 Brueder-gemeinde. 



A fine genus of about 80 species, most of them being natives of 

 S. America. Our only species, so frequent with us, is quite rare on the 

 Continent. 



BREUTELIA CHRYSOCOMA (Dicks.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; robust, in yellow-green tomentose tufts. Leaves dense 

 squarrosely divergent, lanceolate, acuminate acute, nerve lost in the 

 point. Caps, on a cygneous pedicel, ovato-globose. (T. LXXVIII, E.) 



SYN. Hypnum palustre erectum,coma lutea basi nigricanteDiLL. in RAY Synops. 3 ed.83 (1724), 



Hist. muse. 302, t. 39, f. 36 (1741) et Herbar. 

 Hypnum chrysocomum DICKS. PI. crypt, brit. Fasc. II, 12 (1790). P. BEAUV. 62 (1805). 



Mnium arcuatum DICKS. Op. c. Fasc. Ill, 2, t. 7, f. 3 (1793)- WITH. Bot. arr. 3 ed. iii, 

 803 (1796). 



Bryum arcuatum HULL Br. Fl. P. 2, 255 (1799). 



Mnium chrysocomum HEDW. Sp. muse. 74 (1801). 



Bartramia arcuata SWARTZ in SCHRAD. Journ. Bot. ii, 182 (1801). BRID. Muse. rec. II, 



P. Ill, 140 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 79 (1817), Mant. 116 (i8iq), Bry. univ. n, 35 (1827). 



SM. Fl. brit. 1343 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1237. TURN. Muse. hib. 109 (1804 . SCHWAEG. 



Suppl. I, P. II, 61, t. 62 (1816). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. br. 88, t. 23 (1818). HOOK. Fl. 



scot. P. 2, 140 (1821). GRAY Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 751 (1821). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. Fasc. 12, 



p. 15, t. 6 (1842). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 487 (1849). WILS. Bry. brit. 283, t. 23 (1855). 



BERK. Handb. br. m. 173 (1863). HOBK. Synops. 129 (1873). 

 Breutelia arcuata SCHIMP. Coroll. 85 (1856), Synops. 427 (1860), 2 ed. 522. MILDE Bry. 



siles. 240 (1869). DE NOT. Epilogo 260 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 151 (1884). B >UL. 



Muse, de Fr. I, 713 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 270, t. 75 (1890). LIMPR. in RABENH. 



D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 553 (1893). 

 Breutelia chrysocoma LINDB. Oefv. Vet.-Akad. foerh. 1863. n. 7. 



Dioicous; plants robust in large irregular tufts, coated with 

 ferruginous tomentum, yellow-green and glossy above, stems flexu 

 erect or procumbent, irregularly branched, shorter branches pat 

 in whorls below the inflor., longer scattered throughout the 

 Leaves subvaginant at base, lanceolate, longly acuminate, with a tl 



