M NIACE^E.] 242 [Mnium. 



Mnium serpyllifolium ft. M. cuspidatum L. Sp. pi. ii, 1113 (1753). ft> rotundifolium LAM. 

 Fl. franc, i, 40 (1778). 



Mnium cuspidatum NECK, in Act. ac. Theod.-palat. ii, 444 (1770). REICH. Fl. moeno- 

 franc. ii, 125 (1778), et in L. Syst. pi. iv (1780). LEYSS. Fl. hal. 2 ed., 272 (1783). 

 HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 52 (1795). LINDB. in Not. saells. Fn. et Fl. fenn. ix, 63 (1867). 

 Var. ft. HEDW. Sp. muse. 193 (1801). Var. ft. affine SOMM. Suppl. Fl. lapp. 56 (1826). 



Bryum polymorphum NECK. Meth. muse. 218 (1771). 



Bryum cuspidaium SCHREB. Spic. fl. lips. 84 (1771). SWARTZ in W. akad. nya Handl. xvi, 

 254 (1795), et Muse. suec. 51 (1799). VOIT Muse. herb. 88 (1812). WALLM.in LILJEBL. 

 Svensk fl. 3 ed. 552 (1816). HARTM. Skand. fl. (1820). 



Hypnum cuspidatum SCHRANK Bayer, fl. ii, 471 (1789). WEB. MOHR Ind. mus. pi. cr. 

 (1803). 



Mnium affine BLAND. Muse. fr. exs. Ill, n. 133 (1804). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 134 (1816). 

 BRID. Sp. muse. Ill, 54 (1817), MART. Fl. cr. erl. 68, t. 2, f. i (1817). HUEBEN. Muse. 



ferm. 407 (1833). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 5, p. 30, t. g (excl. fig. 22b) (1838). DE NOT. 

 yllab. 140 (1838). Epilogo 359 (1869). RABENH. D. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 228 (1848). C. 

 MUELL. Synops. 1/159 (1849). WILS. Bry. br. 253, t. 51 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 387 

 (1860), 2 ed. 476. BERK. Handb. br. m. 182, t. 17, f. 2 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 226 

 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 121 (1873). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest. 128 (1873), Muse. gall. 

 254, f. 69 (1889). JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 307 (1882). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 239 

 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 244 (1884). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. 

 ii, 477 (1893). 



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



Bryum aciphyllum VOIT in STURM Deutsch. fl. II, 12 (excl. var.) (1812). 



Bryum affine BRID. Mant. 119 (1819). HOOK. Br. fl. ii, 65. WILS. in Eng. Bot. suppl. 

 t. 2739. 



Bryum Polla spinosa BRID. Bry. univ. i, 701, p.p. (1826). 



Bryum Polla affinis BRID. op. c. 704. 



Mnium uliginosum BRID. MS. 



Astrophyllum cuspidatum LINDB. Muse, scand. 13 (1879). 



Dioicous ; widely csespitant, stolons long arcuate and rooting. 

 Leaves patulous, when dry recurved and crisped at margin, lowest 

 obovate-circular, median obovate-oblong, comal in a rosette, obovato- 

 spathulate, all slightly decurrent ; nerve ending in the prickle-like point, 

 limb of 3 4 rows of narrow unistratose cells, yellowish, the whole 

 margin with long acute divergent teeth, each of 3 cells; leaf-cells in 

 divergent rows, scarcely thickened. Caps, generally 2 5 in one 

 perichaetium, pendulous, oblong, glaucous green, turning brownish 

 yellow, lid orange, convex apiculate. Peristome pale yellow, inner 

 orange. 



HAB. On the ground in wet bushy places. Fr. 5. 

 Var. p. elatum (By. Sch.}. 



Stems taller, more slender, densely tufted, the shoots erect and elongated ; 

 leaves large, the teeth shorter and more distant. 



SYN. Mnium affine Var. ft. elatum BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 5, p.p. SCHIMP. Synops. 

 HAB. Bogs near Oxford (Boswell). Hale moss, &c. (Wilson) ! 

 Var. y . rugicum LAUR. 



