MNIACE.E.] 246 [Mniwn. 



Dioicous ; in soft dense tufts, i 2 in. high, brown at base, dark 

 green above, changing to blue-green in water. Stems and basal shoots 

 erect. Leaves accrescent upward, erecto-patent, shortly decurrent, 

 undulate and twisted when dry, oblongo-elliptic, acutely acuminate, 

 not limbate, lower nearly entire, upper with the margin from middle to 

 apex with irregular somewhat obtuse teeth formed by the projecting 

 ends of cells ; nerve thin reddish, smooth at back, vanishing below 

 apex ; cells rounded and angular, irregular. Caps, on a reddish seta, 

 cernuous, longish ovate, olivaceous-brown, lid convex obtuse, reddish- 

 yellow ; peristome yellowish, endostome orange. 

 HAB. Damp shady banks in woods and rotten stumps. Fr. 6, very rare. 



Frequent in the N. of England and in limestone districts. With fruit at Winnats, Derby 

 (Holt 1884) ! ! and in a lane on Penyard hill, Ross (Miss E. Armltage) \ 



* * * Leaves entire. 



12. MNIUM CINCLIDIOIDES (Ely ft) Hiieben. 



Dioicous ; stems tall, erect. Leaves roundish-oval, entire, not 

 limbate. Caps, pendulous, oval, lid convex, apiculate. (T. LXXXII, E.) 



SYN. Bryum clnclidioides BLYTT MS. LINDGR. Muse. suec. ex*, fasc. i, n. n (1835). 

 HARTM. Skand. fl. 3 ed. 293 (1838). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 250 (1849). 



Mnium clnclidioides HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 416 (1833). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 5, p. 34, 

 t. 13 (1838). DE NOT. Syllab. 140 (1838), Epilogo 358 (1869). RABENH. D. kr. fl. ii, 

 S. 3, 229 (1848). WILS. Bry. brit. 257, t. 51 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 397 (1860) 2 ed. 

 488. BERK. Handb. br. m. 186 (1863). LINDB. Notis. ur Saells. Faun. Fl. fenn. ix, 70 

 (1867). MILDE Bry. siles. 231 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 123 (1873). JURATZ. Laubm. 

 oester.-ung. 311 (1882). BOUL. Muse. Fr. 244 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss N. Amer. 

 248 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 257, t. 71 (1890). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. 

 ii, 485 (1893). 



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



Dioicous ; tall in loose tufts, radiculose at base, sterile branches 

 elongated erect. Leaves yellowish-green, large distant, lower rounded- 

 ovate, upper broadly lingulate, rounded at apex with a short apiculus 

 or slightly emarginate, broadly undulate, thin and soft, not limbate but 

 with i 3 rows of elongated marginal cells, those of the lamina in 

 divergent rows, irregular rhombic. Caps, on a long slender reddish 

 seta, suddenly pendulous, ovate, yellowish-brown ; lid convex apiculate ; 

 peristome dark brown, the teeth perforated in the median line, 

 endostome yellow. 



HAB. Grassy mountain heaths and marshes. Fr. 6. 



Glen Prosen, Menmuir and Findhaven hills, Clova (Fergusson 1868) ! ! Ben Lawers. 

 Loch-na-Gar (Ewing 1886) ! Margin of Tal-y-llyn lake, Merioneth. (Ley 1889) ! 

 Grasmere, Westmoreland (Binstead 1893) ! ! 



