MNIACEJE.J 248 [Mnium. 



Drynm nitidum, Scrpilli rotundis ct latiorlbus foliis pellucidis DILL, in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 

 103(1721). 



Bryum pendulum, Serpllli folio rotnndiore pellucido, capsulis ovatis DILL. Hist. muse. 416, 

 t.53,f. 81 (1741) et Herb. 



Mnhim serpyllifolium a. M. punctatum L. Sp. pi. 1113 (1753). 

 Bryum serpyllifolium a. punctatum HUDS. Fl. angl. 417 (1762). 



Mnium serpyllifolium NECK, in Act. ac. Theod.-palat. ii, 444 (1770). LIOHTF. Fl. scot, ii, 

 713 (1777). WILLD. Fl. berol. rrodr. 332 (1787). HOFFM. Deutsch. Fl. ii, 52 (1795). 

 WAHLENB. Fl, lapp. 353 (1812), Fl. upsal. 366 (1820), Fl. suec. ii, 723 (1826). LINDB. 

 Not. ur saells. Fn. et Fl. fenn. ix, 56 (1867). 



Bryum serpyllifolinm NECK. Meth. muse. 216 (1771). SWARTZ in W.-Ak. nya Handl. xvi, 

 253 (1795)1 et Musc - suec - 



Bryum punctatum SCHREB. Spic. fl. lips. 85 (1771)- WEB. Spic. fl. goett. 116 (1778). 

 SIBTH. Fl. oxon. 291 (1794). ROTH Fl. germ, iii, P. I, 245(18:10). SMITH Fl. brit. 1368 

 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1183. TURN. Musc. hib. 132 (1804). V OIT Musc. herb. 89 (1812). 

 HOOK. TAYL. Musc. br. 125, t. 30 (1818). BRID. Mant. 119 (i8ig). HOOK. Fl. scot. 

 P. II, 151 (1821). GRAY Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 772 (1821). MACK. Fl. hib. P. 2, 33 (1836). 



Mnium punctatum REICH. Fl. moeno-franc. ii, 126 (1778), et in L. Syst. pi. iv (1780). 

 HEDW. Fund. II, 94 (1782), Sp. muse. 193 (1801). WITHER. Bot. arr. 3 ed. iii, 805 

 (1796). BRID. Musc. rec. II, P. Ill, no (1803). P. BEAUV. Prodr. 76 (1805). SCHULTZ 

 Fl. starg. 349 (1806). ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 97 (1813). SCHWAEG. Sup^l. I, P. II, 15 

 (1816). HUEBEN. MUEC. germ. 413 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 142 (1838), Epilogo 362 

 (1869). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 5, p. 19, t, 2 (1838). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 224 

 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 155 (1849). WILS. Bry. brit. 258, t. 30 (1855). SCHIMP. 

 Synops. 399 (1860), 2 ed. 489. BERK. Handb. br. m. 186, t. 17, f. 6 (1863). MILDE 

 Bry. siles. 223 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 124 (1873). HUSN. Mouss. n.-ouest 129 (1873), 

 Musc. gall. 257, t. 71 (1890). JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 312 (1882). BOULAY Musc. 

 Fr. 242 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 248 (1884). LIMPR. in RABENH. Laubm. 

 ii, 487 (1893). 



Hypnum punctatum SCHRANCK Bayers. Fl. ii, 470 (1780). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 296 (1807). 

 Bryum Polla punctata BRID. Bry. univ. i, 706 (1826). 

 Asfrophyllum punctatum LINDB. Musc. scand. 13 (1879). 



Dioicous ; in loose tufts, dark green above, reddish below, with 

 reddish-brown tomentum. Stems rigid, i 3 in. high, with many erect 

 shoots. Leaves distant, patulous and reflexed, upper 4 6 in a rosette, 

 broadly obovate-spathulate, slightly emarginate and very minutely 

 apiculate at apex, lower from a very narrow base, rounded obovate, 

 limb rufescent, incrassate, cartilaginous, of 2 4 rows of incrassate cells, 

 nerve purplish, ending abruptly below or in the point ; leaf-cells 

 angular-oval, highly chlorophyllose. Caps, horizontal or inclined, oval 

 or ovate, yellowish-green becoming fuscescent ; lid reddish-yellow, 

 acutely rostrate ; peristome yellow. Male plant more slender with 

 fewer leaves. 



HAD. Wet rocks and sandy detritus of rivulets ; common. Fr. 23. 

 Var. /3. elatum Schimp. 



Taller, more densely tufted. Leaves larger, thinner, with a narrower 

 thinner limb, and without an apiculus. 



SYN SCHIMP. Synops. 398, 2 ed. 489. LIMPS, op. c. 489. 



