84 [Hypnum. 



slightly decurrent, ovato-lanceolate, acute, nearly flat, not sulcate, 

 sharply serrate ; nerve slender, ending shortly below apex ; cells at 

 angles rectangular, above long and narrow. Branch-leaves similar, 

 divergent, almost bifarious. Perichaetium squarrose whitish, the bracts 

 suddenly lanceolate, long-pointed, serrulate, nerveless. Seta red, 

 strongly verrucose ; capsule cernuous or horizontal, longish, rufous- 

 brown, lid convex with a long beak, peristome rufous-orange. 



HAB. Wet ground in woods, stones and tree-roots ; not common. Fr. 12. 



Well-side, Forth Dafarch, Holyhead (Wilson 1830). Well at Albourne Place, 

 Hurstpierpoint (Mitten) ! ! Henfield (Mitten). Kyngall Cliff, Penzance (Curnow) \ ! 

 Thirsk, Yorkshire (J. H, Davies). Ainsdale, Southport (Maratt). Glenmeny, I. of Man 

 (Holt 1881) ! ! 



A beautiful species somewhat resembling H. rutabulum, but easily 

 distinguished by its glossy bright green leaves and rostrate lid. It has now 

 disappeared both from Albourne Place and the cliff at Penzance. 



15. HYPNUM HIANS Hedw. 



Dioicous ; laxly tufted, yellowish-green or with an opalescent gloss. 

 Stem-leaves distant, patent, cordate, gradually pointed, sharply serrate 

 all round, nerve f the length. Branch-leaves similar but narrower. 

 Perichsetial bracts oblong-ovate, squarroso-recurved in a narrow 

 serrated point. Seta rough ; capsule pale brown, longish-oval, lid with 

 a yellow beak. (T. C, D. E.) 



S\x. Hyptnim prczlongum (non L.) HEDW. Stirp. cr. iv, 76, t. 29 (1797), Sp. muse. 258 (1801). 

 C. MUELL. Synops. ii. 446 (1851), Fl. danica t. 2619, f. i, and of most continental 

 authors. 



Hypnum hians HEDW. Sp. muse. 272, t. 70, fgg. 1114 (1801). RICH, in MICH. Fl. Amer. 

 bor. ii, 318 (1803). BRID. Sp. muse. II, 168 (1812), Mant. 170 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 

 456 (1827). SULLIV. Muse. & Hep. Un. St. 69 (1865), Icon. Muse. 163, t. 104 (1864). 



Pterigynandrum apicnlatum BRID. Sp. muse. I, 137 (1806), Mant. 131, Bry. univ. ii, 195. 

 SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I., 108. 



Hypnum dispalatum WILS. MSS. 



Eurhynchiiim prcelongum BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 57 61, p. 8, t. 6 excl. var. (1854). 

 SCHIMP. Synops. 559 (1860), 2 ed. 673. HUSN. Muse. gall. 340 (1893). LIMPR. in 

 RABEN. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 197 (1897). 



Eurhynchiiim hians JAEGER & SAUERB. in Bericht. St. Gall. Nat. Gesell. 1878, p. 357. 

 LIMPR. in op. c. 199. HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 205 (1884). GROUT in Bull, of Torrey Bot. 

 Club xxv, 234 (1898). 



Rhynchostegium prcclongum DE NOT. Cronaca II, 12 (1867), Epil. 86 (1869). 

 Hypnum (Eurhynchiiim} hians HOBK. Synops. 155 (1873). 

 Hypnum distans LINDB. Muse, scand. 34 (1879). 

 Eurhynchium distans BRYHN. Explor. 59 (1893). 



