HYPNACEJJ.J 28 [Antblystegium. 



Dovedale (Dr. Frazer 1866) ! ! Barrowfield, Westmoreland c. fr. (?. M. Barnes 1868) ! ! 

 Taddington Dale and Ravensdale (Holt 1882) ! ! Portstewart, Derry (Stewart 1884). 

 Altalore glen, Wicklow (Lett 1893) ! ! Aysgarth Force and Askngg, Wensleydale 

 (R. Barnes 1893) ! ! Richmond and Kisdon Force, Swaledale (R. Barnes 1889) ! ! Ebbor 

 Gorge, Wells, Somerset (Blnstead 1887) ! 



A rather stronger plant than A . Sprucei, but very near it in the form of 

 leaves which are more tapering ; the capsule differs considerably from it in 

 form and direction. 



ii. AMBLYSTEGIUM SPRUCEI (Bruch) Br. Sch. 



Dioicous ; minute, csespitose. Stem filiform, erect, soft. Leaves 

 remote, oblong-lanceolate, entire, nerveless. Perich. bracts coarsely 

 serrate above, capsule minute, erect, obovate, with a short neck. 

 (T. LXXXIX, C.) 



SYN. Leskea Sprucei BRUCH in lit. SPRUCE in Lond. J. Bot. 1845, p. 180. WILS. Bry. br. 

 330, t. 54 (1855). 



Leskea tenella SCHIMP. MSS. 



Hypnum confervoides DRUMM. Muse. Amer. n. 190. 



Hypnum yiingcrmannia HAMPE MSS. 



Amblystegium Sprucei BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 55 56 (1853). SCHIMP. Synops. 588 

 (1860), 2 ed. 705. MILDE Bry. siles. 322 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 163 (1873). BOUL. 

 Muse. Fr. 82 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 356, t. 102 (1893). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 

 441, t. 55 (1896). 



Hypnum Sprucei C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 415 (1851). LESQ. JAMES. Moss. N. Amer. 373 

 (1884). 



Platydlctya Sprucei BERK. Handb. Br. m. 145 (1863). 



Dioicous ; minute, in small pale green tufts. Stems soft, filiform , 

 in fertile tufts denser, ascending with erect branches, in sterile laxer, 

 long and vaguely creeping. Leaves distant, erecto-patent, narrowly 

 oblongo-lanceolate, entire, nerveless, cells lax, hexagono-rhomboid, at 

 angles quadrate ; perich. bracts similar, longly acuminate, spinuloso- 

 denticulate towards apex. Capsule minute, erect or subcernuous, from 

 a distinct neck, obovate or turbinate, rufescent ; lid convex, mamillar or 

 apiculate. Teeth narrowly lanceolate, pale yellow, endostome without 

 cilia. 



HAB. Shady calcareous rocks, rare. Fr. 6, very rare. 



Tees, side near Winch-bridge (Spruce 1843)! Rams Lum, Todmorden (Nowell 1849)!! 

 Sheddon clough and Janet's cave, Malham (Nowell 1851). Southport (Dr. Wood 1853) ! 

 Rong wood, Bowness (//< 1871). By the Tees at Rokeby (R. Barnes 1894)!! Black 

 mountains, Brecon (Binstead 1895). Falls of Clyde, Lanark (Wilkic 1896) ! ! Richmond, 

 Gunnerside and Kisdon in Swaledale, Aysgarth Force in Wensleydale; Gainford, 

 Winston, Maize beck and Langdon beck (R. Barnes) ! ! Egglestone Abbey (Baker) 

 All in Teesdale, 



In the sterile state this moss is with difficulty distinguished from the last 

 species, but the branches are straighter and simpler, and the leaves shorter 

 and less acuminate. 



