HYPNACE^.] 53 [Amblystegium. 



HAB. Southport (Holt 1881) ! ! 



Very distinct as a variety and readily known by the short falcate leaves, 

 with short cells and nerve. 



Var. 5. intermedium Schimp. 



Submersed, yellowish-green ; stems elongated, sparingly and irregularly 

 pinnate. Leaves very variable, oblong-ovate, lanceolate, cuspidate, scarcely 

 secund, nerved above half-way ; the ramuline subfalcate, ovate, shortly 

 acuminate ; median cells very long, linear. 



SYN. Hypnnm aduncum Var. intermedium SCHIMP. Synops. 2 ed. 727. Bry. eur. Suppl. fasc. 

 34, t. i, B i8. SANIO Beschr. Harpid. 27. 



HAB. Strensall common, York (Holt 1886) ! ! Southport and Hale moss 

 (Holt 1882) ! ! a very lax form. 



Var. e. polycarpon Bland. 



Stems procumbent, with numerous slender branches, vaguely ramulose. 

 Leaves patent or erect, or subsecund, rather distant, falcato-secund at apex, 

 broadly ovate at base, lanceolate, cuspidate, nerved to or beyond middle, 

 median cells very long and linear, suprabasal lax, quadrate. 



SvK.Hypnum polycarpon BLANDOW in STURM Deutsch. Fl. Crypt, fasc. 14. HUEBEN. Muse, 

 germ. 690. 



Hyp. aduncum Var. polycarpon SCHIMP. Bry. eur. et Synops. SANIO, RENAULD, &c. 

 HAB. Henfield Level, Sussex (Mitten}. 

 Var. . pungens H. Muell. 



Stems divided into simple branches or slightly ramulose, the apical 

 leaves convolute in a long cuspidate point, the lower ovato-lanceolate, patent, 

 upper ovate, acutely cuspidate, subimbricated, nerve | length of leaf, basal 

 cells but little dilated, upper long and linear. 



SYN. Hyp. Kneiffii 3. pungens H. MUELL. in MILDE Bry. siles. 351. 

 Hyp. aduncum Var. pungens SANIO, RENAULD, &c. 



HAB. Pits near Knutsford, Cheshire (Holt 1895) !! 

 Var. >;. pseudofontanum Santo. 



Stems elongated, very slender, floating, pinnate with very short branches 

 or nearly simple. Leaves falcato-secund at apex, cauline leaves distant, 

 patent, flexuose, denticulate at margin, from an ovate base, lanceolate and 

 extended into a very long slender twisted acumen, or very narrowly 

 lanceolate-acuminate ; nerve f length of leaf, basal cells rectangular, lax and 

 incrassate. 



HAB. Oakmere, Cheshire (Holt 1887) ! ! 

 Var. 6. paternum Santo. 



