HYPNACE^.J 45 [Amblystegium. 



tracted below the mouth, from an erect base, cernuous, fuscescent, 

 lid mamillar; annulus broad; teeth long, pale with a hyaline border, 

 processes cleft, cilia 3, remotely nodulose. 



HAB. Bogs and marshes, rare in fruit. 



Near Forfar c. fr. (Don 1802). Prestwick Car, Northumberland c. fr. (Thornhill). 

 St. Faith's bogs, Norwich and Yarmouth (Turner). Sands of Barry, Dundee (Gardiner). 

 Pilmoor and Stockton Forest, York (Spruce). Strensall common, York, and banks of 

 Seamer water (Baker 1856). Southport sands c. fr. (Wilson 1863) ! ! Howth, Dublin. 



26. AMBLYSTEGIUM VERNICOSUM Lindb. 



Dioicous ; glossy yellowish-green. Stem erect, remotely pinnate- 

 branched. Leaves falcato-secund, oblong-lanceolate, sulcate, not 

 decurrent, nerve vanishing above middle, cells very narrow, vermicular, 

 basal rufous, narrow oblong-quadrate. (T. XCIII, D.) 



SYN. Hypnuni pellucidum WILS. MSS. 



Hyphum vernicosum LINDB. in HARTM. Skand. Fl. 8 ed. 17 (1861). SCHIMP. Bry. eur. 

 Suppl. fasc. 3 4, t. 4 (1866), Synops. 2 ed. 729 (1876). MILDE Bry. siles. 353 (i8Gg). 

 HOBK. Synops. 168 (1873). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 52 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 

 385 (1884). RENAULD in HUSN. Muse. gall. 389 (1894). Dix. JAMES. Handb. 464 (1896). 



Amblystegium vernicosum LINDB. Muse, scand. 33 (1879). 

 Hyp. lycopodioides ft. vernicosum SANIO Beschr. 45 (1885). "| 



Dioicous ; in large yellow-green shining tufts, sometimes golden- 

 yellow or rufescent, fuscescent at base. Stems 4 6 in. high, erect, 

 rigid, remotely pinnate, the branches patulous, somewhat hooked at 

 apex. Leaves very glossy, secund, hamato-reflexed from middle, widely 

 ovato-lanceolate, suddenly with a short slender recurved acumen, 

 strongly sulcate, not decurrent nor auricled, nerved to a little above 

 middle ; cells narrowly vermicular, at base rufous, the lowest row 

 chlorophyllose, rounded-quadrate, with the cuticular cells of stem 

 attached, the two upper rows narrowly oblong-quadrate. Perich. 

 bracts lanceolate, deeply sulcate, lower recurved at apex, upper 

 straight, elongated, acutely acuminate, nerved. Capsule on a long 

 seta, oblong, subarcuate, horizontal, contracted below the dilated 

 mouth; lid mamillar, annulus broad, compound, peristome large, 

 similar to that of A. Kneiffii. Male plants more slender with fewer 

 branches. 



HAB. Marshy heaths and fields, not common. Fr. 6. 



