MEESEACE*.] 223 [Paludella. 



Plants dwarf with short erect obtuse leaves, capsule short and thick. 

 SYN. Meesea minor BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 168, t. 2, f. 13. 

 : M. uliglnosa (3. minor SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I, 82. 



HAB. Ben Lawers. 



2. PALUDELLA Ehrh. 



Phytophyl. No. 69 (1788). 



Plants tall, densely tomentose, growing in deep bogs. Leaves in 

 five rows, equal decurrent, squarroso-recurved, the cells roundish- 

 hexagonal, elongated at base. Calyptra long, very narrow, fugacious. 

 Caps, on a very long seta, from a short erect neck, cernuous, smooth, 

 oblong ; annulus double, lid convex apiculate ; peristome as in Pohlia. 

 Der. palus a marsh. 



PALUDELLA SQUARROSA (L.) End. 



The only species. (T. LXXIX, B.) 



SYN. Bryum squarrosum L. Sp. plant. 1120 (1753). Syst. nat. ii, 702, Syst. veg. 949. TIMM 

 Fl. megap. n. 840 (1788). SWARTZ Muse. suec. 48 (1799). HEDW. Sp. muse. 166, t. 

 44, f. 6 ii (1801). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 19 (1803). SCHULTZ Fl. starg. 338 

 (1806). ROEHL. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 90 (1813). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 20 (1816). 

 WILS. in Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2767. 



Mnium squarrosum L. JUN. Meth. muse. 364 (1787). HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 47 (1795). 

 WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 356 (1812). 



Orthopyxis squarrosa P. BEAUV. Prodr. 72 (1805). 

 Hypnum Paludella WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 274 (1807). 



Paludella squarrosa BRID. Sp. muse. Ill, 74 (1817), Mant. 115 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, i 

 (1827). SCHWAEG. Suppl. II, P. II, 27, t. 161 (1826). HUEBEN. muse. germ. 398 

 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 105 (1838), Epilogo 488 (1869). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 10, 

 t. i (1841). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 194 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 468 (1849). 

 WILS. Bry. br. 264, t. 50 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 410 (1860), 2 ed. 502. BERK. 

 Handb. br. m. 180 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 235 (1869). HOBK. Synops. br. m. 125 

 ( l8 73)- JURATZ. Laubm. oest.-ung. 320 (1882). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 214 

 (1884). BOUL. Muse. Fr. 227 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 263, t. 73 (1890). LIMPR. in 

 RAB. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 499 (1893). 



Dioicous ; in tall dense tufts, bright yellow-green above, blackish- 

 brown at base, coated with soft brown tomentum. Leaves crowded in 

 5 rows, ovato-lanc., from an erect decurrent base, squarrose, strongly 

 recurved, acutely carinate, margin recurved below, plane above, serrate 

 at apex; nerve thin vanishing below point, cells roundish-hexagonal 

 above, oval in the middle, elongated at base, mamillose on both sides. 

 Perich. bracts erect, lane., revolute at margin. Seta long, red; caps, 

 from a short erect neck, ovate, curved, yellow-brown, lid conic, apiculate ; 



