MNIACE^E.] 230 [Gynuwcybe. 



Bryum palustre ft- ramosum TURN. Muse. hib. 113. 



Orthopyx^s ramosa P. BEAUV. Podr. 32 et 79. 



Aulacomnium palustre ft. polyccphalum HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 393. 



Gymnocybc palustris Var. e. ramosa LINDB. op. c. 88. 



HAB. In similar localities with the type. 



New Forest near Hythe, Hants (Binstead 1887) ! ! 



2. GYMNOCYBE TURGIDA (Wahlen.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; in large loose tufts. Leaves imbricated, obovate, 

 concave obtuse entire. Lid obtuse. (T. LXXX, B.) 



SYN. Hypnum illecebrum L. Fl. suec. 2 ed. 399, excl. syn. (1755). 



Hypnum turgidum WAHLENB. MSS. WEB. MOHR Ind. mus. pi. cr. name only (1803). 



Mnium arrhenopterum SM. in Trans. L. Soc. vii, 263, p.p. (1804). 



Arrhenopterum turgidum WAHLENB. MSS. WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 318 in obs. (1807;. 



Mnium turgidum WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 351, t. 23 (1812). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 123, 

 t. 77 (1816). BRID. Sp. muse. Ill, 41 (1817), Mant. 121 (1891), Bry. univ. ii, n (1827). 

 FUNCK Moost. 51, t. 32 (1821). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 171 (1849). 



Bryum turgidum SWARTZ Summa Veg. scand. 41 (1814). 



Bryum (Streptotheca) turgidum W. ARN. in Mem. Soc. hist. nat. Paris ii, 292 (1825). 



Aulacomnium turgidum SCHWAEG. Suppl. Ill, P. I, 7 (1827). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 395 

 (1833). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 10, p. 8, t. 2 (1841). SCHIMP. Synops. 413 (1860), 2 ed. 

 506. JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 323 (1882). HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 174 (1884). LESQ. 

 JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 253 (1884). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 530 (1893). 



Gymnocybe turgida LINDB. in Not. ur saells. Faun, et Fl. fenn. foerh. ix, 85 (1867). 

 Splarocephalus turgidus LINDB. Muse, scand. 14 (1879). 



Dioicous ; in large yellowish-green tufts, readily falling asunder, 

 yellowish-brown at base, not interwoven withtomentum. Stem 3 5 in. 

 long, fragile, irregularly branched, thickened towards apex. Leaves 

 imbricated, scarce decurrent, concave, longish obovate, broadly rounded, 

 quite entire, reflexed at margin in lower half, incurved at apex ; nerve 

 thin, vanishing below apex, cells roundish, incrassate with a short 

 papilla on each side, the basal in two strata, brownish, smooth, 

 rectangular with some shorter rectangular green cells above them. 

 Perich. bracts lanceolate. Caps, cernuous, ovate-oblong, symmetric 

 curved, yellowish brown, 8-striate, lid conic, obtuse. 



HAB. Wet turfy places in mountains, rare. Fr. 7. 



Ben More of Dochart (Prof. Barker 1871). Whernside, Yorks. (West and Lees 1878) ! 

 Ben Challum, Perthshire (Ewing and Binstead) ! ! Creag Mhor, Perthshire (Holmes 

 1888) ! ! All sterile. 



