2 47 [Mnium. 



13. MNIUM PSEUDOPUNCTATUM Br. Sch. 



Synoicous; erect. Leaves roundish obovate obtuse entire, with a 

 very narrow limb, nerve vanishing below apex, Caps, small roundish- 

 oval, lid rostellate. (T. LXXXIII, B.) 



SYN. Mnium pscudopunctatum BR. SCH. in HOOK. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii, 669 (1843) LINDB 

 Not. ur saells. Fn. et Fl. fenn. foerh. ix, 68 (1867). 



Bryum mnioides WILS. in HOOK. Lond. Journ. Bot. iii, 427 (1844), Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 

 2907. 



Mnium subglobosum BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 31, Suppl. 3, t. 3 (1846). RABENH. D. kr. fl. 

 II, S. 3, 224 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 156 (1849). WILS. Bry. brit. 259, t. 51 

 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 399 (1860), 2 ed. 490. BERK. Handb. br. m. 187 (1863). 

 MILDE Bry. siles. 224 (1869). HOBK. Syn. br. m. 124 (1873). JURATZ. Laubm. oester.- 

 ung. 312 (1882). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 243 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 248 

 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 258, t. 71 (1890). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 

 490 (1893). 



Mnium punctatum Var. subglobosnm HAMPE MS. 

 Astrophylliitn psendopiinc tatum LINDB. Muse, scand. 13 (1879). 



Synoicous ; in wide irregular mats, densely coated with black or 

 rufous tomentum, branches slender, erect. Leaves shortly decurrent, 

 distant, green above, the lower becoming reddish, obovate, obtuse, entire, 

 the limb of i 3 rows of elongated narrow cells, nerve thin vanishing 

 below the apex, leaf-cells lax, irregular angular-oval. Caps, small, 

 cernuous, globose-oval, leptodermous, greenish-brown, lid conical, 

 pointed or rostellate ; peristome brownish-yellow, endostome orange. 



HAB. Marshy moorland heaths, not uncommon. Fr. 3. 



Longfield and Stansfield moors, Todmorden (Nuwcll 1844) ! ! Malham Tarn (Noivell). 

 Tmtwis'le and Stayley Brushes, Cheshire (Whitekead 1861) ! ! Bowness (Atkinson) ! 

 Sutton Park (Bagnall) ! ! Carmeadow, Derby (Holt 1882) ! ! Most of the Yorkshire 

 moors and in Scotland. 



Readily known when fertile by the synoicous inflorescence and small 

 rounded capsules, and in the sterile state, although much like the next, the 

 leaves will be seen to be softer, wider at base and with the nerve vanishing 

 some distance below the summit, and also with a narrower limb. 



14. MNIUM PUNCTATUM L. 



Dioicous ; erect. Leaves roundish, upper larger obovate, crowded 

 into a rosette, entire, with a thick limb, nerve ending in the very small 

 point. Caps, oval, lid conic rostellate. (T. LXXXIII, C.) 



S\x.Muscuspolytrichoidcsfoliis latls siibrotundis RAY Synops. 2 ed. 35 (1696) 



Bryum ulteiu, folih scrfylli pdlncidis rotundis, caf>itulis ccrnuis majusculis, c canliculis 

 veteribns egrcdicntibus DILL. Cat. Giss. 227 (1718). 



