HYPNACE^.] 7<> (Hypnum. 



SYN. Muscus trichodes medius ramosus, foliis albis mollibus denticulatis dispositis RAY Synops. 



2 ed. 39 (1696). 

 Hypnum terrestre erectum, ramulis teretibus foliis inter rotunda et acuta media modo se 



habenfibus DILL. Cat. Giss. 220 (1719) et in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 8z (1724). 

 Hypnum cupressiforme vulgare, foliis obtusis DILL. Hist. muse. 309, t. 40, f. 45 (1741) et 



Herbar. 

 Hypnum illecebrum L. Fl. suec. n. 1032 (1716). SWARTZ Muse. suec. 61 (1799). Eng. Bot . 



t. 2189, f. 2. BRID. Muse. Rec. II, P. II, 91 (1801). 



Hypnum purum L. Sp. pi. 1128 (1753)- HUDS. Fl. angl. 427 (1763). WEISS Cr. Goett. 

 249 (1770). NECK. Meth. muse. 160 (1771), Del. gallo-belg. (1773)- WITHER. Bot. arr. 

 ii, 688 (1776). LIGHTF. Fl. Scot, ii, 758 (1777). WEBER Spic. Fl. Goett. 78 (1778). 

 RELH. Fl. cant. 414 (1785). ROTH Fl. germ, i, 470 (1788)- SIBTH. Fl. oxon. 300 

 (1794). ABBOT Fl. Bedf. 250 (1798). HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 58 (1795). SWARTZ 

 Muse. suec. 60 (1799). HEDW. Sp. muse. 253, t. 66, f. 36 (1801). BRID. Muse. rec. 

 II, P. II, 88 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 122 (1812), Mant. 160 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 425 (1827). 

 SM. Fl. brit. 1313 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1599. TURN. Muse. hib. 175 (1804). P. BEAUV. 

 Prodr. 68 (1805). SCHULTZ Fl. starg. 318 (1806). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 316 (1807). 

 VOIT Muse. herb. 114 (1812). WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 372 (1812), Fl. carpat. 357 (1814). 

 ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 106 (1813). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 226 (1816). HOOK. TAY. 

 Muse. brit. 98 (1818). HARTM. Skand. fl. HOOK. Fl. scot. P. II, 143 (1821). GRAY 

 Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 756 (1821). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 648 (1833). DE NOT. Syll. 21 

 (1838). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, s. 3, 288 (1848). WILS. Bry. brit. 376 (1855). BR. SCH. 

 Bry. eur. fasc. 5761, t. 38 (1854). SCHIMP. Synops. 646 (1860), 2 ed. 791. BERK. 

 Handb. br. m. 109, t. 8 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 371 (1869). HOBK. Syn. br. m. 179 

 (1873). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 16 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 419, t. 122 (1894). 



Hylocomium purum DE NOT. Epil. 91 (1869). 

 Hypnum (Scleropodium) purum LINDB. Muse, scand. 34 (1879). 

 Brachythecium purum Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 410 (1896). 

 Scleropodium purum LIMPR. RABENH. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 147 (1897). 



Dioicous ; in soft lax yellowish-green or pale tufts. Stem flexuoso- 

 prostrate or ascending, 3 6 in. long, more or less regularly pinnate, 

 tumid ; branches divergent, julaceous, obtuse. Stem leaves crowded, 

 laxly imbricated, narrow at insertion, decurrent at angles, broadly oval 

 or ovate-oblong, cochleariform-concave, broadly sulcate, at the rounded 

 apex with a small recurved minutely serrulate apiculus, margin recurved 

 at base ; nerve pale and thin, reaching middle, sometimes shorter and 

 double ; cells small, linear-vermicular, the angular quadrate. Branch 

 leaves narrower and smaller. Perich. bracts erect, with long subulate 

 points, nerveless, not sulcate. Seta red, smooth, capsule horizontal, 

 longish elliptic, castaneous, lid conical, pointed, peristome orange, inner 

 yellow. Male infl. with numerous ovato-lanc. bracts. 



HAB. Dry banks in woods and pastures, common. Fr. 10 u. 



3. HYPNUM ILLECEBRUM P. Beam. 



Dioicous; procumbent, irregularly branched, deep green ; branches 

 obtuse incurved, Leaves densely imbricated, roundish-ovate, concave 



