38 APLOPERISTOMI. [Splachnum. 



The description of Grimmia splachnoides in Flora Britannica 



is taken from specimens which we have examined of this plant ; 



it is consequently very different from Weissia splachnoides of 



Swartz. The stems are from half an inch to an inch long ; the 



fruitstalks from one to two inches in length. 



3. S. mnioides ; leaves ovato-lanceolate much acuminated concave 

 entire, apophysis obovate nearly as narrow as the capsule. 

 (TAB. IX.) 

 a. minus, of a deeper colour and with shorter stems. 



Splachnum mnioides. Linn. Fil. Meth. Muse. p. 6. Hedw. St. Cr. 

 v. 2. t. U. Schwaegr. Suppl v. 1. p. 48. Brid. Meth. p. 104. Punch, 

 Deutschl. Moose, t. 7. n. 2. Smith, Fl Brit. p. 1169. Engl. Bot. t. 

 1539. Hobson, Brit. Mosses, v. 1. n. 11. Drummond, Muse. Scot. v. 

 \.n. 14. Hook. Fl. Scot. P. II. p. 124. Arn. Disp. Muse. p. 13. 



S. urceolatum. Dicks. Crypt. Fasc. 2. p. 2. (according to authentic 

 specimens as well as the figure in Engl. Bot. t. 2417; not of Hedw. J. 

 Smith, Fl. Brit. p. 1170. 



S. urceolatum. /3. Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 

 P>. majus, of a paler colour, and with elongated stems. 



S. fastigiatum. Dicks. Crypt. Fasc. 3. p. 2. Smith, Fl. Brit. p. 

 1171. Engl. Bot. t. 786. 

 S. purpureum. Withering. 



S. Brewerianum. Hedw. St. Cr. v. 2. t. 38. Schwaegr. Suppl. v. 

 1. p. 49. Brid. Meth. p. 106 DHL Muse. t. 44. / 5. 



HAB. Upon the high grounds in the mountainous parts of 

 England, Scotland, and Ireland, generally growing 

 among mosses in rocky situations ; Mr. Griffiths, alone, 

 in Withering, mentions his S. purpureum, (decidedly 

 our mnioides), on cowdung ; hut his specimens in Mr. 

 Turner's Herbarium, being intermixed with Hypnum 

 cupressiforme, seem to render it probable that such could 

 not have been its place of growth. 



Besides the characters allotted to the above varieties we can 

 discover no point of distinction between them. The true S. 

 urceolatum of Hedwig, (if indeed it be really a distinct species 

 from the present, with which Wahlenberg unites it,) has re- 

 markably concave and obtuse leaves, upon which the hair-like 

 point is suddenly set on ; and has not yet been found in Britain. 

 S. purpureum of Withering, according to Mr. Griffiths' 

 specimens, belongs to this species, and not to S. tenue as Sir 



