HYPNACE^.] 18 [Amblystegium. 



Svtt.Hypniim repens filicinum, trichodes palustre DILL. Cat. Giss. 218 (1719), et in RAY 

 Synops. 3 ed. 85, n. 31 (1724), Hist. muse. 286, t. 36, f. 21 (1741) et Herbar. 



Hypnum filicinum L. Sp. pi. 1125 (1753). HUDS. Fl. angl. 422 (1762). NECK. Meth. 

 muse. 164 (1771). WITHER. Bot. arr. Br. veg. ii, 684 (1776). LIGHTF. Fl. scot, ii, 748 

 (1777). WEB. Spic. fl. goett. 56 (1778). RELH. Fl. cant. 410 (1785). ROTH. Tent. fl. 

 germ, i, 467 (1788). SIBTH. Fl. oxon. 294 (1794)- ABBOT Fl. Bedf. 247 (1798). 

 SVVARTZ Mu?c. suec. 55 (1799). HF.DW. Sp. muse. 285 T. 76, f. 710 (1801). SMITH 

 Fl. brit. 1334 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1570. TURN. Muse. hib. 197 (1804). BRID. Sp. 

 Muse. II, 210 (1812), Mant. 177 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 527 (1827). ROEHL. Deutsch. Fl. 

 iii, 114 (1813). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 297 (1816). MART. Fl. cr. erl. 35 (1817). 

 HOOK. TAYL. Muse. brit. 109 (1818). GRAY Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 764 (1821). HOOK. Fl. 

 scot. P. 2, 147 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 92 (1833). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 689 (1833). DE NOT. 

 Syllab. 52 (1838). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 277 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 419 (1851). 

 BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 5761, p. 40, T. 27 (1854). WILS. Bry. brit. 392 (1855). 

 SCHIMP. Synops. 614 (1860), 2 ed. 740. BERK. Handb. Br. m. 121, t. 10, f. 6 (1863). 

 HOBK. Synops. 170 (1873). BOUL. Muse. France 48 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. 

 N. Amer/386 (1884). 



Hypnnm dubium NECK. Meth. muse. 161 (1771). DICKS. Crypt. Fasc. Ill, 10 (1793). 

 WITHER. 3 ed. iii, 854 (1796). SM. Fl. brit. 1332. Eng. Bot. t. 2126. TURN. Muse. 

 hib. 195. 



Hypnnm affine and H. extricatum HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 61 (1795). 

 Hypnum compresswn BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 58 (1801). 



Amblystegium filicinum DE NOT. Epilogo 150 (1869). MILDE Bry. siles. 325 (1869). 

 HUSN. Muse. gall. 361, t. 103 (1893). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 445 (1896). 



Dioicous ; prostrate or ascending, bright green or with a golden 

 yellow tint. Stem rigid, pinnate, densely tomentose, and with a few 

 short lanceolate paraphyllia. Cauline leaves from a dilated base, with 

 large impressed auricles and lax pellucid rectangular cells, hastato- 

 acuminate, patent, falcate, the upper cells short and pachydermous ; 

 margin erect, serrulate ; nerve strong, yellow, continued to apex. 

 Perich. bracts lanceolate, acuminate, subplicate, serrate at apex, with 

 lax cells and thin nerve. Capsule oblong or cylindric, subarcuate, 

 cernuous, lid convex-conic, apiculate ; teeth lineal-subulate, yellow, 

 processes nearly entire with 2 3 long slender cilia. 



HAB. Wet banks and about springs, especially on limestone, common. 

 Fr. 45. 



Var. ft. trichodes Uriel. 



Stem prostrate, pinnate, branches slender, incurved, acute. Leaves 

 small, patent or secund. 



SVK. Hypnum trichodes BRID. Sp. muse. II, 236 (1812). 

 Hyp. filicinum ft. trichodes BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 529. 

 Hyp. filicinum Var. gracilescens SCHIMP. Synops. 614. 



HAB. Wet grassy ditches. Malham (Wesley) ! Langdon Beck, Upper 

 Teesdale (R. Barnes 1886) ! ! 



Var. y. elatum. Schimp. 



