HYPNACE^.] 96 [Hypnum. 



Rhynchostegium murale BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 4951, p. 10, t. 8 (1852). SCHIMP. 

 Synops. 571 (1860), 2 ed. 685. DE NOT. Epilogo 74 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 208 

 (1884). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 227 (1897). 



Eurhynchium murale MILDE Bry. siles. 310 (1869). HUSNOT Muse. gall. 346, t. 100 

 1893). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 427 (1896). 



Autoicous ; in dense flat shining yellowish-green tufts, firmly 

 adherent to the substratum and with numerous erect short simple 

 turgid branches. Stem leaves densely imbricated, concave, ovate, 

 narrowed at base, rounded at point and ending in a short apiculus, 

 margin entire or minutely denticulate at apex ; nerve thick at base, 

 vanishing a little above middle ; cells at base rectangular, hyaline, at 

 angles lax hexagono-rectangular, upper fusiform. Perichaetial bracts 

 erect with recurved points, inner ovate-acuminate, nerveless, seta 

 purple smooth ; capsule cernuous ovate-oblong with a small neck, 

 rufous, lid conico-rostrate, annulus of two rows of cells; teeth 

 rufescent, endostome yellow with two cilia. 



HAB. On rocks, stones and walls in limestone districts. Fr. 12 2. 

 Var. /3. complanatum (By. Sch.). 



Stouter with fewer branches which are lax long and flattened. Leaves 

 smaller, pointed, scarcely concave. 



SYN. Rhynchostegium murale ft. complanatum Bry. eur. I.e. fig. 8 fi. SCHIMP. Synops. 571 

 2 ed. 686. 



Rhynchostegium confertum Var. elatior MOLENDO in LORENTZ Moosstud. 109. 



HAB. On wet rocks. 



Var. y. julaceum (Br. Sch.) Bry. eur. I.e. 



Whitish green, with julaceous branches. Leaves densely imbricated, 

 obtuse, cochleariform. 



HAB. On dry walls. 



A neat moss varying in density, in form of leaf and also in colour, some- 

 times having a rufescent tinge. Its favourite locality is at the damp bases of 

 stone walls. 



25. HYPNUM CONFERTUM (Dicks.) Br. Sch. 



Autoicous ; in lax bright green tufts ; stems creeping, subpinnate 

 with erect branches. Leaves crowded, sub-complanate or erecto-patent, 

 sometimes subsecund, ovato-acuminate, nerved half-way, distantly and 

 feebly serrate. Seta smooth, capsule cernuous, ovate, lid rostrate. 

 (T. CIII, B.) 



