HYPNACE.E.] 103 [Hypnum. 



lanceolate-subulate, finely serrate at margin, nerved to apex. Perichaetial 

 bracts squarrose, inner sheathing, lanceolate-subulate and recurved in 

 upper half, with a faint nerve half-way; seta purple, rough in upper half; 

 capsule cernuous, castaneous, oval, gibbous, lid conical, acute, teeth 



yellow. 



HAB. Damp walls and stones and on tree-roots. Fr. i 3. 



A number of varieties have been described by Schimper, but with us the 

 plant appears to be pretty constant, but varies in colour, sometimes being of 

 a beautiful whitish green. 



31. HYPNUM REFLEXUM Starke. 



Autoicous ; slender, creeping, pinnate, with short incurved branches. 

 Leaves crowded, decurrent, broadly deltoid-ovate, suddenly lane. -subulate, 

 serrated, nerved to point. Seta rough, capsule globose-oval, horizontal, 

 lid conic, pointed. (T. CIV, D.) 



SYN. Hypnum reflexum STARKE MSS. WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 306 & 476 (1807). BRID. 

 Sp. muse. II, 170 (1812), Mant. 170 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 461 (1827). SCHWAEG. Suppl. 

 I, P. II, 269 (1816), et II, P. I, 161, t. 143 (1823). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. brit. 95 (1818). 

 HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 142 (1821), Br. Fl. ii, 78 (1833). GRAY Nat. Arr. i, 754 (1821). 

 FUNCK Moost. 62, t. 46 (1821). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 639 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 

 26 (1838). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 281 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 448 (1851). 

 WILS. Bry. brit. 342 (1855). BERK. Handb. 80 (1863). HOBK. Synops. 149 (1873). 

 BOULAY Muse. Fr. 124 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 342 (1884). 



Lfskea laxifolia HOOK. Muse. exot. t. 30 (1818). 



Brachythedum reflexur.i BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 52 54, p. 8,"t. 5 (1853). SCHIMP. Synops. 

 53g"(i86o), 2 ed. 650. MILDE Bry. siles. 332 (1869). DE NOT. Epilogo 126 (1869). 

 HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 199 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 327, t. 94 (1892). Dix. JAMES. 

 Stud. Handb. 405 (1896). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 114 (1896). 



Hypnum subtenue JAMES in Proc. Ac. Phil. 1855, P- 447- 

 Rigodiuin reflexum KINDB. Laubm. Schwed. u. Norw. 14 (1883). 



Autoicous ; in creeping interwoven dingy-green tufts, often black at 

 base. Stems slender, filiform, rooting at points, pinnate, the branches 

 filiform, simple and incurved. Stem-leaves crowded, divergent, from a 

 wide decurrent deltoid base, cordate-ovate, suddenly lanceolate-acuminate, 

 often oblique at point, not sulcate, with plain serrulate margins ; nerve 

 nearly reaching apex, cells firm, longish hexagonal at base, very numerous, 

 small and quadrate at the excavate angles. Branch leaves ovato- 

 lanceolate, nerved to point, serrated at margin. Perich. bracts pale, 

 nerveless, ovato-lanceolate, subulate and squarrosely recurved, inner 

 erect ; seta purple, rough, capsule roundish-ovate, horizontal, small, 

 blackish-brown, lid conical, acuminate. Male infl. gemmiform, ovate. 



