MNIACE^.J 240 [Mnium. 



**Limb simply serrate. 



6. MNIUM SILVATICTTM Lindb. 



Synoicous ; fertile stem erect, simple. Leaves obovate, mucronate, 

 comal ovato-lanceolate, simply serrate. Caps, ovate, subpendulous, lid 

 convex. (T. LXXXI, E.) 



SYN. Bryum nitidum,foliis serpilli pellucidis obhngis, capitulis cernuis majusculis, e cauliculis 

 novis et virentibus egredlentibus DILL. Cat. Giss. 227 (1718). 



Bryum pendulum, foliis variis pellucidis, capsulis ovatis DILL. Hist. muse. 413, t. 53, f. 79 

 A C (1741) et Herb. 



Mnium serpyllifolium Var. 8. cuspidatum LAM. Fl. franc, i, 40 (1778). ft- cnspidatum 

 Auct. ant. p.p. 



Mnium cuspidatum HEDW. Sp. muse. 192, t. 45, f. 5 6 (1801). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. 



Sp. muse. Ill, 52 (1817). M 

 Muse. germ. 409 (1833). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 5, p. 29, t. 8 (1838). DE NOT. 



11,132(1816). BRID. Sp. muse. Ill, 52 (1817). MART. Fl. cr. erl. 67 (1817). HUEBEN. 



Syllab. 139 (1838), Epilogo 360 (1869). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 227 (1848). 

 C. MUELL. Synops. i, 160 (1848). WILS. Bry. br. 254, t. 31 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 

 386 (1860), 2 ed. 475. BERK. Handb. br. m. 183, t. 17, f. 3 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 

 225 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 121 (1873). HUSN. Mouss. n.-ouest. 128 (1873), Muse, 

 gall. 253, t. 69 (1889). JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 306 (1882). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 

 241 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 242 (1884). LIMPR. Laubm. ii, 475 (1893). 



Bryum cuspidatum (non SCHREB.) TURN. Muse. hib. 131 (1804). SMITH Fl. brit. 1368 

 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1474. HOOK. TAYL. Muse. br. 127, t. 31 (1818). GRAY Nat. arr. i, 

 773 (1821). HOOK. Fl. Scot. P. 2, 152 (1821). 



Hypnum aciphyllum WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch, 295 p.p. (1807). 

 Bryum aciphyllum Var. VOIT in STURM Deutsch. fl. II, 12 (1811). 

 Bryum Polla cuspidata BRID. Bry. univ. i, 702 (1826) 

 Mnium silvaticum LINDB. in Not. ur Saells. Fn. et-Fl. fenn. ix, 59 (1867). 

 Astrophyllum silvaticum LINDB. Muse, scand. 14 (1879). 



Synoicous ; simple, bright green above, strongly radiculose at base, 

 with trailing and suberect shoots and subterranean stolons. Leaves 

 decurrent, accrescent upward, undulate and crisped when dry, lowest 

 obovate, entire, cauline erecto-patent, obovate, comal longer obovate- 

 oblong, those of stolons rounded obovate, all ending in a mucronate 

 point ; nerve strong, smooth at back, ending before or in the point ; 

 limb of 3 5 series of unistratose cells, with solitary small yellowish 

 teeth in the upper half. Leaf- cells not in rows, incrassate, 

 roundish-oval. Caps, on a reddish-yellow seta, solitary oval sub- 

 pendulous, pale ferruginous-brown ; lid convex ; peristome yellow, 

 endostome orange, the processes widely lacunose, appendiculate, the 

 basal membrane cribrose. 



HAB. Wet shady places in woods, on rocks and tree-roots. Fr. 45. 



This species is not uncommon and is smaller than M. cuspidatum (L.) NECK. 

 with which it was confused by the older authors, and from which it differs by 

 the inflorescence and serraturc of leaves. It is most frequent on limestone. 



