HYPNACE.E.J 107 



Loose, dark green above, blackish at base, pinnate and more robust than 

 the type ; the stem creeping, with short distant branches. Stem-leaves larger 

 and longer with longer points, the margin obsoletely serrate, nerve longer ; 

 branch-leaves with longer points. 



SYN. Brachythecium Huntianum SCHIMP. olim. 

 Brachythecium glaciale Var. WILSON in litt. 

 Brachythecium Starkei Var. y. pralongnm SCHIMP. Synops. 2 ed. 652 p.p. (1876). 



HAB. Ben Lawers on rocks (Hunt 1868) ! ! 



I have been much puzzled by so-called H. glaciale (British specimens), 

 H. curium and PI. Starkei, and am disposed with Grout (Mem. Torrey Bot. 

 Club, vi, 195) to refer them all to Starkei. The leaves vary notably in 

 serration, length of nerve and of acumen on the same plant, as well as in 

 outline of leaf, but the paucity of material prevents me studying them as fully 

 as I could wish. McKinlay's specimen was sent to Schimper by Dr. Wood, 

 and certainly differs from glaciale, but it is very small, and as McKinlay's 

 herbarium was destroyed, I have no means of determining it. 



35. HYPNUM CURTUM Lindb. 



Autoicous ; in lax pale green glossy tufts. Stem pinnate with short 

 distant arched branches. Stem leaves rather distant, loosely divergent, 

 decurrent and ovato-cordate at base, gradually acuminate, acute, feebly 

 serrate, cells rectangular at base ; branch leaves lax ovate, twisted at 

 point. Seta rough ; capsule ovate, gibbous, lid conical. (T. CV, C.) 



S\'y.Hypnnm rtitabulum Var. . explanatum BRID. Sp. Muse. II, 184 (1812), Bry. univ. ii, 



488 (1827). 



Hypnum Starkei FUNCK Moost. 61, t. 44 (1820). 



Brachythecium Starkei a Bryol. eur. fasc. 5254, p. 10, t. 7 excl. Var. fl. (1853). Var. 

 a et Var. y pralongum SCHIMP. Synops. 540 (1860), 2 ed. 652, sec. Limpricht. 



Brachythecium Starkei forma major MILDE Bry. siles. 333, in nota (1869). 



Brachythecium rutabulum Var. explanatum BROCKM. in Arch. Ver. Freund. Naturg. Meckl. 

 xxiii, 122 (1870). 



Brachythecium Starkei Var. robustum LIMPR. Kr. fl. Schles. I, 75 (1876). 

 Hypnum curium LINDB. Muse, scand. 35 (1879). 



Brachythecium curium LINDB. Meddel. af Soc. Fn. et Fl. fenn. V. (1879). LIMPR. in 

 RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 101 (1896). 



Brachythecium Starkei Var. curium WARNST. Moosfl. prov. Brand. 71 (1885). 



Autoicous ; in very lax pale green glossy tufts with the habit of 

 H. ruiabulum, and also resembling H. Starkei, from which it differs in the 

 leaves and is softer and more robust. Stems radiculose, stoloniform, 

 distantly pinnate ; branches flattened, attenuated, flagelliform and 



