244 [Mnium. 



Brynm ligulatum SCHREB. Spic. fl. lips. 84 (1771). WITHER. Bot. arr. ii, 673 (1776). 

 SWARTZ Muse, suec. 51 (1758). SM. Fl. brit. 1371 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1449. TURN. 

 Muse, hib. VOIT Muse. herb. 87 (1812). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. br. 125, t. 30 (1818). 

 BRID. Mant. 119 (1819). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 151 (1821). GRAY Nat. arr. i, 772 (1821). 



Mnium ligulatum WILLD. Fl. berol. 334 (1787). BRID. Muse. rec. I, P. Ill, 112 (1803), 

 Sp. muse. Ill, 55 (1817). SCHULTZ Fl. starg. 348 (1806). ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 97 

 (1813). 



Hypnum undatum SCHRANK Bayers, fl. ii, 474 (1789). 



Polytrichum undaium SCHRANK Prim. fl. salisb. 223 (1792). 



Brynm undulatnm SIBTH. Fl. oxon. 292 (1794)- ROTH. Fl. germ, iii, P. r, 249 (1800). 



Hypnum ligulatnm WEB. MOHR Ind. mus. pi. cr. (1803), et Bot. Tasch. 298 (1807). 



Brynm Polla ligulata BRID. Bry. univ. i, 708 (1826). 



Astrophyllnm undulatnm LINDB. Muse, scand. 13 (1879). 



Dioicous ; tall, dendroid, widely csespitant, deep green. Stem 

 erect simple, with a number of branches arising from the rosette-like 

 coma, which are flagelliform, dense-leaved and arcuate, and many 

 strong horizontal stolons at base. Cauline leaves remote, oblong, 

 comal elongate ligulate and decurrent, undulate, crisped when dry, 

 limb of 3 rows of cells, confluent with the nerve at apex, simply 

 serrate, leaf -cells irregular roundish. Capsules 210 in one 

 perichaetium, cernuous, oblong, yellowish, becoming castaneous, 

 annulus large, lid convex apiculate, peristorne greenish yellow. 

 HAD. Damp shady woods and hedge banks. Fr. 5. 



This fine moss presents but little variation and is generally distributed, 

 but the fruit is by no means frequent, when it does occur the number of 

 capsules gives the plant a very handsome appearance. 



10. MNIUM ROSTRATT7M Schrad. 



Synoicous ; in loose trailing dark-green patches. Leaves large 

 oval-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, bluntly toothed. Caps, oval, 

 horizontal, lid rostrate. (T. LXXXI, F.) 



SYN. Brynm pendulum, Serpylli folio longiore pellucido, capsulis oblongis cuspidatis DILL. 

 Hist. muse. 416, t. 53, f. 80 (1741) et Herb. 



Bryum serpy Hi folium Var. /3. HUDS. Fl. angl. 492 (1762). 



Mnium rostratum SCHRAD. in L. (GMEL.) Syst. nat. 13 ed. ii, P. 2, 1330 (1791). HOFFM. 

 Deutsch. fl. ii, 52 (1795). ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 96 (1813). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 

 136, t. 79 (1816). MART. Fl. cr. erl. 70 (1817). FUNCK Moost. 52, t. 33 (1821). 

 HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 412 (1833). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 5, p. 27, t. 7 (1838). 

 DE NOT. Syllab. 141 (1838), Epilogo 364 (1869). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, Sect. 3, 227 

 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 158 (1849). WILS. Bry. brit. 254, t. 30 (1855). SCHIMP. 

 BERK. Handb. br. m. 184 (1863). LINDB. Not. ur 

 867). MILDE Bry. siles. 224 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 

 , t. 69 (if 



Synops. 390 (1860), 2 ed. 480. BERK. Handb. br. m. 184 (1863). LINDB. Not. ur 

 Saellsk. Fl. Faun. fenn. ix, 58 (1867). MILDE Bry. siles. 224 (1869). HOBK. Synops 

 121 (1873). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 128 (1873), Muse. gall. 254, t. 69 (1889) 

 JURATZ. Laubm. oest.-ung. 310 (1882). BOULAY Muse. fr. 241 (1884). LESQ. JAMES 

 Moss. N, Amer. 243 (1884). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr, fl, Laubm. ii, 470 (1893). 



