42 MUSCI. [Hypnum. 



27. H. myosuroides, LINN. Branches fascicled, curved; 

 leaves lanceolate, acuminate, serrated, their margins reflexed at 

 the base, their nerve disappearing near the middle; capsule 

 ovato-cylindraceous, erect; lid rostrate. Linn. sp. pi. p. 1596. 

 Muse. Brit. ed. 2, p. 169, t. 25. 



On trees and rocks. Usually smaller, yet sometimes fully equalling 

 the former in size. 



+- ^ Capsules cernuous. 



28. H. splendens, HEDW. Stems tripinnate ; leaves ovate acu- 

 minulate, concave, shortly 2-nerved, their margins recurved 

 below ; capsule ovate, cernuous ; lid rostrate. Heclw. Sp. Muse, 

 t. 67, f. 69. Muse. Brit. ed. 2, p. 170, t. 25, 



In woods, on the ground ; not uncommon. 



29. H. proliferum, LINN. Stems tripinnate ; leaves serrated, 

 papillose on the back, the cauline cordate, acuminated with 

 their nerve nearly percurrent, those of the branches ovate with 

 a short single or double nerve ; lid conico-rostrate. Linn. sp. 

 pi. p. 1590. Muse. Brit. ed. 2, p. 170, t. 25. 



In woods, and bushy banks ; not uncommon. 



30. H. pralongum, LINN. Stems pinnate; leaves distant, pa- 

 tent, cordate or ovate acuminate, serrated, their nerve not quite 

 percurrent; capsule ovate, cernuous; setae scabrous; lid rostrate. 

 Linn. sp. pi. p. 1591. Muse. Brit. ed. 2, p. 172, t. 25. 



On moist shady banks and trunks of trees ; common. A variety 

 collected by Miss Hutchins, near Bantry, has the leaves yellowish- 

 green, broadly cordate, shortly acuminate. Another, found on drip- 

 ping rocks at Blackwater bridge, County of Kerry, has leaves narrow, 

 lanceolate, dark dusky-green, and capsules turbinate, and is not one- 

 tenth of the usual size. 



31. H. flagellare, DICKSON. Stems pinnate; leaves thickly 

 set, cordato-acuminate, serrated, very shortly 2-nerved ; capsule 

 oblongo-ovate, cernuous; lid conical. Dicks. Cr. Fasc. 2, p. 12. 

 Muse. Brit. ed. 2, p. 174, t. 25. 



Rocky sides of mountain streams ; not uncommon, but rare in fruit, 

 in which state it occurs at Secawn Mountain, near Dublin. 



32. H. micans, HOOKER. Leaves erecto-patent, rotundato- 

 ovate, acuminulate, concave, serrated, their margin reflexed, 

 shortly 2-nerved. Wils. Mss. Eng. Fl. v. 5, part 1, p. 86. 



Woods at Glengariff, Miss Hutchins : in the woods at Killarney 

 not uncommon. This appears to me to approach very nearly in habit 

 a slender variety of H. cupressiforme found on trees, although when 

 the lens is used the difference of acumination of the leaves is easily 

 recognised. It is much smaller in all its parts ,* and in woods, of a more 

 golden yellow colour, than H. demissum ; at the base of Magilli- 

 cuddy's Reeks, it is quite green and looks a doubtful species. 



33. H. abietinum, LINN. Stems pinnate ; leaves papillose on 

 the back, their margins slightly reflexed, their nerve not quite 



