HYPNUM. 99 



In this species likewise the upper leaves are often secund. 

 All .of -them are of a glossy, generally deep yellow green. 

 Hedwig's plumosum (now called by authors H. salebrosum) 

 has striated leaves ; and the whole plant so nearly resem- 

 bles (as Mr. Turner has observed) H. lutescens, that we 

 know of no character by which it may be distinguished from 

 it, except the smoothness of its fruitstalks. Specimens of 

 Hedwig's H^flagellare perfectly accord with H. plumosum^ 

 and H. alpinum is not to be distinguished from it. 



H. pulchellum; leaves loosely imbricated, the upper ones 

 subsecund, all of them lanceolato-acuminate, entire, nerve- 

 less; capsules ovato- cylindrical, nearly erect; lid conical. 

 {TAB. XXV.) 



H. pulchellum. Dicks* PL Crypt.fasc.2. t. 5./. 6. (the leaf is in- 

 correctly represented with a nerve.) Turn. Muse. Hib. p. 136. EngL 

 Bot. t. 2006. H, nitidulura. Wahl Leskea pulchella. Hedw. Sp. 

 Muse. t. 55. f. 7-12. 



HAB. Woods in alpine countries and among rocks. 



This is a small species, rarely exceeding an inch in length ; 

 the leaves standing out nearly horizontally on each side of 

 the stem, on which account Wahlenberg has brought it into 

 his division with " shoots plane ;" but then the upper leaves 

 are subsecund ; and from this circumstance and the general 

 habit of the plant it approaches very near to that variety of 

 H. cupressiforme which by the British botanist has been 

 called //. polyanthos, (not Leskea polyanthos Hedw,,) and 

 which is probably the same as the Hypnum incurvatum of 

 Schrader. From this indeed Schwaegrichen warns us to 

 distinguish our plant : " Diflfert," he says, te a sequente 

 (H. incur vato) operculo brevi, theca subcylindrica ascen- 

 dente et colore pallido." Wahlenberg, on the other hand, 

 says it is closely allied to H. denticiilafum. This must not 

 be confounded with the H. pulchellum of Hedwig, which 

 is now called H. strigosum. 



-t- -*- Leaves striated. 



H.rufescens ; leaves erecto-pateut, lanceolate, acuminated, 

 entire, striated, faintly two-nerved at the base j capsule 

 ovate, nearly erect ; lid conical. (TAB. XXV.) 



H. rufescens. Dicks. PL Crypt. fasc. 3. t. S.f. 4. Engl Bot. t. 2296. 

 Leskea rufescens. Schwaegr. SuppL t.88. 

 HAB. Scotch alps, but rare. 



Of this very beautiful moss the stems are from 3 to 4 or 

 5 inches long, erect, and the whole plant of a yellowish 

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