HYPNACE.E.] 9& [Hyfinum. 



Hypntim conjertiim Var. megafolitanum BRUCH MS. WILS. Bry. brit. 356 (1855). 



Rhvnchostegium megapoittannin BR. Sen. Bry. eur. fasc. 4951, p. 8, t. 5 (1852). SCHIMP. 

 vSynops. 569 (1860), 2 ed. 684. DE NOT. Epilogo 73 (1863). HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 208 

 (1884). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 220 (1897). 



Enrhvnchiitm megapolitanum MILDE Bry. siles. 311 (1869). HUSN. Muse. gall. 345, t. 99 

 (1892). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 429 (1896). 



Autoicous ; in very lax soft pale yellowish green tufts, the stems 

 depressed, with distant irregular branches and a few short ramuli. Stem- 

 leaves glossy, lax, erecto-patent, narrow and slightly decurrent at base, 

 ovate, gradually extended into a subulate point, margin recurved at base, 

 feebly serrate, nerve yellowish f the length, cells laxer at base, quadrate 

 and hyaline at angles. Branch-leaves lanceolate, acuminate, sharply 

 serrate. Perich. bracts suddenly recurved and subulate from the middle, 

 faintly toothed, nerve slender. Seta purple, smooth, flexuose, capsule 

 longish cylindric, pale brown, curved, lid conic rostrate, peristome orange, 

 processes widely cleft. 



HAB. Sandy grassy places by the sea, rare. Fr. i 3. 



Shoreham beach and Newhaven (Mitten) ! ! Southport (Marrat) ! ! Hayle sands (Curnow 

 1866 ) ! ! Malahide. Dublin (Moore 1860). Crosby warren (Wilson 1835) ! ! St. Andrews 

 (Howie). 



Although generally compared with //. confer! inn, this is a more robust 

 plant with a very different facies, and longer seta and capsule, and with us 

 mostly affects the vicinity of the sea. 



27. HYPNUM ROTUNDIFOLIUM Scop. 



Autoicous ; in lax depressed dark green tufts, with scattered branches. 

 Leaves distant, divergent, twisted and crumpled when dry, cauline longish 

 ovate with a short point, feebly toothed above, nerved to middle, cells 

 very lax, hexagonal, uniform. Capsule cernuous, olivaceous, oval, lid 

 rostrate. (T. CIII, D.) 



SVN. Hypninn rot iindi folium Stor. Fl. Cam. 2 ed. 62 (1772). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 129 

 (1801). Bry. univ. ii. 768 (1827). C. MUELI.. Synops. ii. 245 (1851). BOULAY Muse. ir. 

 98 (1884). 



Hypnum coufcrtum (3. rolundifvlium BKID, Sp. muse. II. 107 (1812), Bry. univ. ii. 407 (1827). 

 Hypnum intextum (non VOIT) HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 621 (1833). 



Rhynchostrgium rotund-folium BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 4951, p. 9. t. 7 (1852). SCHIMP. 

 Synops. 570 (1860), 2 ed. 685. DE NOT. Epilogo 71 (1869). LIMPR. in RABENH. 

 D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 222 (1897). 



Eurhynchinm rotundifolium MILDE Bry. siles 310 (1869). HUSN. Muse. gall. 345, t. 09 

 (1892). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 429 (iS 9 6). 



Autoicous; in depressed, soft, opake dark green tufts. Stem creeping, 

 stoloniform, with scattered branches. Leaves distant, patent, twisted and 

 crumpled when dry, cauline narrow at base, ovate or broadly obovate, 

 suddenly narrowed into a small point, distantly denticulate above, nerved 



