HYPNACE^;.] 33 [Amblystegium. 



Capsule on a long purple seta, incurvo-cylindraceous, pale orange, with 

 a broad annulus, lid conoid, obtuse, peristome pale yellow, processes 

 entire, lanceolate-subulate, cilia 2 3. 



HAB. Damp calcareous rocks and fallow fields. Fr. 5. 



Old Trafford (Hunt 1863). Portreath, Cornwall (Cnrnow 1866). Hole of Horcum, Yorks. 

 (Stabler 1868) ! ! Ashton (Gordon 1871). Malahide and Portrane, Dublin (Moore). 



Var. (3- erectum B agnail. 



In dense yellowish-green tufts, i 2 in. high ; stems erect, pinnate, with 

 numerous short ascending branches, upper leaves falcato-secund, subden- 

 ticulate at base. 



SYN. Hypnum chry sophyllnm var. erectum BAGN. in Journ. Bot. 1896. p. m. Dix. JAMES. 

 Stud. Handb. 455. 



HAB. Banks of the Dove above Milldale, Staffordshire (Bagnall 1895) ! ! 

 Near Ripley, Yorks. (L. J. Cocks 1896) ! ! 



Nerveless leaves are sometimes found intermixed with the usual nerved 

 ones, and not otherwise differing from them ; indeed this and the next two 

 species are very closely allied, and may have to be united. 



16. AMBLYSTEGIUM PROTENSUM (Brid.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; stem creeping, pinnate. Leaves distant, squarrose, 

 ovato-lanceolate, subulate, nerveless or with a very faint nerve. Capsule 

 subcylindric. (T. XC, C.) 



SYN. Hypnum protensum BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 85, t. 2, f. 3 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 201 

 (1812), Mant. 175 (1819). TURN. Muse. hib. 161 (1804). FUNCK Moost. 63, t. 47 (1821). 



Hypnum stellatum (3. protensum ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 103 (1813). BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 

 602 (1827). SCHIMP. Bry. eur. fasc. 57 61, p. 14 (1854). Synops. 603, 2 ed. 725. 

 DE NOT. Epilogo 171 (ib6g). HUSN. Muse. gall. 366 (1893). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 

 455 (1896). 



Amblystegium protensum LINDB. Muse, scand. 32 (1879). 



Dioicous ; in pale golden or rufescent silky tufts. Stems depressed, 

 long and trailing, flexuose, simply and irregularly pinnate, reddish, the 

 pinnse spreading at right angles and increasing in length upward. 

 Leaves imbricated, from a concave base lanceolate, suddenly ending in 

 a long piliform acumen, very patent, nerveless. Perich. bracts smaller, 

 crowded, seta long, erect, purple ; capsule inclined, subcylindric arcuate, 

 spadiceous, lid purple, conic acute. 



HAB. Wet rocks and stones in calcareous districts ; not common. Fr. 6. 



