HYPNACEJE.] 57 [Amblystegium. 



and narrow, nerve very short, forked. Capsule oblong, horizontal. 

 (T. XCV, C.) 



SYN. Hypmtm molle p.p. C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 431 (1851). WILS. Bry, brit. 371 (1855). 

 SCHIMP. Synops. 637 (1860). BERK, Handb. 104 t. 7, f. 2 (1863). 



Limnobitim molle BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 5556, 5, t. 4 (1853). DE NOT. Epilogo 159 

 (1869). 



Hypnum dilatatum WILS. MS. HUNT in Trans. Lit. Phil. soc. Manchester 1869, p. 320. 

 HOBK. Synops. 176 (1873). SCHIMP. Synops. 2 ed. ^76 (1876). HUSN. Muse. gall. 413, 

 t. 119 (1894). 



Hypnum molle Var. dilatatum BOUL. Muse. Fr. 25 (1884). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 

 483 (1896). 



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



Autoicous ; in lax depressed tufts, soft when moist, somewhat rigid 

 when dry, rather glossy, yellowish green variegated with rufous. Stems 

 at base slender prostrate and denuded of leaves, repeatedly divided, 

 branches erect, simple. Leaves patulous, dense, subsecund, from a 

 very narrow base, slightly decurrent at angles, suborbicular, obtuse or 

 suddenly with a short apiculus, plano-concave, obsoletely serrate at 

 point; nerve very short and forked or obsolete; cells very narrow, 

 subvermicular-linear, at basal angles subhexagonal. Perich. bracts 

 loosely sheathing, soft, plicate, nerveless. Capsule on a short purple 

 seta, oblong, arcuato-cylindric when old, contracted below mouth, lid 

 convex-conic, annulus narrow, peristome large, with long orange teeth. 



HAB. Stones in alpine streams. Fr. 7. 



Loch Brandy stream, Clova (Gardiner 1842) ! ! Aber stream, N. Wales (Newell 1861) ! ! 

 Glen Dole, Clova (Fergusson). Cautley waterfall, Sedbergh, Yorks. Tore waterfall, 

 Killarney (Capt. Hutton 1865). 



34. AMBLYSTEGIUM MOLLE (Dicks.) Lindb. 



Autoicous ; in very soft lax dull green tufts. Stems long, slender, 

 nearly simple. Leaves patent, elliptic-oval, acuminate; nerve cleft, 

 reaching middle ; cells shorter, linear-fusiform. Capsule incurvo- 

 cernuous. (T. XCV, B.) 



SYN. Hypnum molle DICKS. Crypt, fasc. II, n, t. 5, f. 8 (1790). WITHER. Bot. arr. 3 ed. iii, 

 862 (1796). HULL Br. fl. P. 2, 273 (1799). HED\V. Sp. muse. 273, t. 70, f. 7 10 (1801). 

 BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 178 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 129 (1812), Mant. 162 (1819), Bry. 

 univ. ii, 570 (1827). SMITH Fl. brit. 1312 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1992. WEB. MOHR Bot. 

 Tasch. 340 (1807). ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 220 (1813). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 220 

 (1816). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. br. 95 (1818). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 142 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 

 78 (1833). FUNCK Moostasch. 58, t. 40 (1821). GREV. Scott, cr. fl. t. 283 (1828). 

 HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 629 (1833). WILS. Bry. br. 371, p.p. (1855). HOBK. Synops. 

 176 (1873). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 23 (1884). SCHIMP. Synops. 2 ed. 775 (1876). HUSN. 

 Muse. gall. 412, t. 119 (1894). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 482 (1896). 



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



