Bryum.-} D I PL O PERI S T O M I. 201 



We think the B. stellare of Engl Bot. belongs to this species. 

 It does not accord with the true stellare, which has not, to our 

 knowledge, been yet found in Britain. 



14. B. ccespiticium ; stems short, leaves ovate acuminated entire 

 or very obscurely serrated at the points their margins slightly 

 recurved the nerve reaching to or beyond the point, capsule 

 between ovate and pyriform pendulous. (TAB. XXIX.) 

 . major. 



Bryum ceespiticium. Linn. Sp. PL p. 1586. Turn. Muse. Hib. p. 

 120. Smith, Fl. Brit. p. 1354. Engl Bot. t. 1904. Funck, Deutschl. 

 Moose, t. 30. / 16. Hook. Fl. Scot. P. II. p. 150. Hobson, Brit. 

 Mosses, v. 1. n. 100. Brid. Meth. p. 118. (also B. Funckii, lacustre, 

 sanguineum, radiculosum ? canariense ? and subrotundum ? of the same 

 author.) 



Bryum Wahlenbergii. Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 70. 9 

 Mnium lacustre. Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 77. Funck, Deutschl. Moose, 

 t. 32. f. 3. 



Bryum erythrocarpum. Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 70. ? Funck, Deutschl. 

 Moose, t. 29. f. 12. Brid. Meth. Dill. Muse. t. 50. /. 66. 



Pohlia imbricata. Schwaegr. Suppl. v. I. P. II. p. 71. t. 64. 

 P>. minor*, 



Bryum bicolor. Dicks. PI. Crypt. Fasc. 4. p. 16. Turn. Muse. 

 Hib. p. II. f. 2. Smith, Fl. Brit. p. 1355. Engl. Bot. t. 1601. 



HAB. Banks, walls, and roofs of houses, very common. 



" Admodum polymorpha species pro solo natali. Viginti ad 

 minimum habitu summopere diversas formas, a variis pro novis 

 speciebus transmissas, habemus, quse in genere foliis magis 

 minusve erectis, latioribus, angustioribus, ut'mox ovatse, mox 

 lanceolatse formae magis accedant, acumine et apiculo diversissi- 

 mee longitudinis, seta longiore brevioreve, etiam sporangio et 

 operculo parum ab invicem recedunt ; sed firmos limites nullos 

 hasce discernendi invenimus ; nee dubiis speciebus perplexissi- 

 mum genus augere cupivimiis." In all these remarks of the 

 excellent Mohr, we are disposed fully to acquiesce; and we 

 ought, perhaps, to unite the following species with this, since 

 we know of scarcely any character of importance but the dif- 

 ferent shape of its capsule. With regard to B. Wahlenbergii^ 

 we have been induced to refer it to this species from the short- 

 ness of its capsule, and the exact conformity of its leaves, 

 (according to Schwaegrichen's figures,) with many of those in 



