DICEANUM. 147 



Marshy ground on the mountains. Fr. Autumn. The 

 plane margin of the leaf and the shorter furrowed capsule, 

 are the chief marks of distinction between this and the pre- 

 ceding. Allied to B. virens, 



13. DiCRANUM POLYC.ARPON, Ehrh. {Many -headed Fork 

 Moss.) Stems elongated, branched ; leaves patent, pointing 

 in all directions, lanceolato-subulate, their margins recurved, 

 flexuose, subserrulate, crisped when dry ; capsule oblongo- 

 ovate, nearly erect, furrowed when old; struma inconspi- { 

 cuous; lid rostrate. — En(/. Fl. p. 39; MUll. Sijn. pt. 2. 

 ^.591. 



Alpiue rocks, rare; Ben High, Aberdeenshire. Fr. Au- 

 gust. Sir "W. J. Hooker is incHned to reduce this species 

 to B. strumiferum, and some recent writers take the same 

 view of it. 



13. DiCRANUM FALCATUM, Hcdw. [Sickle-leavcd Fork 

 Moss.) Stems nearly simple; leaves long, lanceolato-su- 

 bulate, falcato-secund, nearly entire ; capsule ovate, subcer- (^ 

 nuous, strumose; lid rostrate.- — Fng.Fl.p.^^ ; M'dll.Syn. 



pt. l.p. 364. 



Alpine rocks. Fr. June. Much like JD. heteromallum, 

 than which it is more rigid, with falcate leaves. 



14. DiCEANUM Staekii, Web, and Mohr. [Starkian 



