HYPNACE^E.] 67 [Hypnum. 



HOOK. TAYL. Muse. brit. 2 ed. 161, suppl. t. 4 (1827). GREV. Scott, cr. fl. t. 279 (1827). 

 HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 646 (1833). HOOK. Br. Fl. ii, 79 (1833). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, 

 s. 3, 290 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 381 (1851). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 5761, 

 p. 50, t. 35 (1854). WILS. Bry. br. 373, t. 34 (18*5). SCHIMP. Synops. 647 (1860), 

 2 ed. 793. BERK. Handb. 106, t. 7, f. 5 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 370 (1869). HOBK. 

 Synop. 179 (1873). BOULAV Muse. Fr. 12 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 405 

 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 417, t. 121 (1894). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 488 (1896). 



Hypnum uliginosum SCHLEICH. Cent. Ill, n. 54. 

 Hypnum illecebrum SCHULTZ Fl. starg. 318, excl. syn. Brid. (1806). 

 Hypnum stramineum /?. SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 212, t. 89 (1816). 

 Amblystcgium trifarium DE NOT. Epilogo 138 (1869). 



Dioicous ; in lax tall rigid fragile tufts, lurid-green above, fuscous 

 or black at base. Stem flexuoso-erect, the innovations simple or with a 

 solitary branch here and there, from a filiform base, gradually thickened 

 and julaceous by imbrication of the leaves. Leaves quinque-farious, 

 glossy, imbricated, broadly ovate and ovate-oblong, slightly decurrent, 

 rounded at apex, cochleariform- concave, nerve simple reaching middle, 

 sometimes shorter and double ; cells narrowly linear-vermicular, those 

 of angles short and rectangular. Perichaetium laxly imbricated, inner 

 bracts elongate-lanceolate, deeply sulcate, thin-nerved. Capsule on a 

 red flexuose seta, small cernuous and horizonal, oblong-cylindric, slightly 

 incurved, ferruginous ; lid convex-conic, rufescent, annulus of 3 rows of 

 minute cells. Male infl. numerous, gemmiform, imbricated. 



HAB. Peat bogs and rills on the higher mountains ; sterile. 



Ben Lawers, Ben Challum, Craig Chailleach, &c., in the Breadalbane range (Greville and 

 Hooker) \ \ Ben Nevis (Sir y. Hooker). Sligichan, Skye (Hiint 1863). 



A very distinct moss both in habit and form of leaf, and when fresh 

 having a varnished appearance. It fruits plentifully in some parts of Sweden 

 and Norway. 



5. HYPNUM Dill. L. 



Cat. Giss. 215 (1718). 



Plants prostrate, creeping or ascending, small or of medium size, 

 pinnately branched, sometimes with paraphyllia. Leaves equal, 

 spreading on all sides, ovate or lanceolate, sometimes imbricated, the 

 cells linear-vermicular above, quadrate-rectangular at basal angles and 

 basal insertion, nerve ending below apex and often excurrent at back 

 as a prickle-shaped point. Seta more or less rough with tubercles or 

 quite smooth ; capsule cernuous or horizontal, ovate or cylindraceous, 

 gibbous with a short neck; lid conical and apiculate or rostellate or 



