HYPNACE.E.] 112 [Hypnum. 



rigid rambling plant, with rather scariose leaves with many deep plaits, and 

 the cells narrower and serpentine. The tree-like form is not seen in 

 H. rutabulum. 



38. HYPNUM PLTTMOSUM Huds. 



Autoicous ; stem procumbent, pinnate. Leaves erecto-patent, ovate 

 with long subserrulate points and many plaits, nerved above half-way. 

 Seta smooth, capsule cernuous, ovate, curved, lid conical. (T. CVI, B.) 



SYN. Hypnum repens filicinum pennatum DILL. Cat. Gissen. 218 (1718). 



Hypnum repens filicinum plumostim DILL, in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 86 (1724) ; Hist. muse. 

 280, t. 35, f. 16 (1741) et Herb. 



Hyt>num frlumosum (non HEDW.) HUDSON Fl. angl. 423 (1762). BRID. Muse. rec. II, 

 P. II, 65 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 171 (1812), Mant. 172 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 475 (1827). 



Hypnum salebrosum HOFFM. Deutsch. Fl. ii, 74 (1795). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 312 

 (1807). BRID. Sp. muse. II, 172, Mant. 172, Bry. univ. ii, 477. SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, 

 P. II, 237 (1816). SCHULTZ Suppl. Fl. Starg. 77 (1819). FUNCK Moostasch. t. 42, f. 31 

 (1821). GREV. Scott, crypt, fl. iv., t. 184 (1826). HUEBEN. Muse. Germ. 643 (1833). 

 DE NOT. Syllab. 28 (1838). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 296 (1848). WILS. Bry. Brit. 

 338, t. 55 (1855). BERK. Handb. 77 (1863). HOBK. Synops. 148 (1873). BOULAY 

 Muse. Fr. 133 (1884). 



Hypnum plumosum ft, salebrosum C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 359 (1851). 



Brachythecium salebrosum BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 52 <?4, p- 16, t. 15 16 (1853). 

 SCHIMP. Synops. 532 (1860), 2 ed. 641. DE NOT. Epilogo 119 (1869). MILDE Bry. 

 siles. 330 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 197 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 323, t. 93 (1892). 

 Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 401 (1896). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 72 

 (1896). 



Brachythecium ambiguum DE NOT. Cronaca II, 18 (1867), Epil. 112 sec. Venturi. 

 Brack. jucundum DE NOT. Cron. II, 20, et Epil. uSsec. Venturi. 

 Brachythecium texanum AUSTIN in Bull. Torr. Club vi, 44. 

 Brachythecium Icevisetum KINDB. Bull. Torr. Club xvii, 279 (1890). 



Autoicous ; resembling H. mtabulum, in depressed pale green tufts, 

 branches subpinnate, terete, erect. Stem-leaves erecto-patent, from an 

 ovate base, acuminate, more or less distinctly serrulate in the upper half, 

 strongly biplicate, nerved to middle ; cells rectangular at base, 8 12 

 times long as broad above ; branch-leaves erecto-patent, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, serrate at point. Perichaetial bracts squarrosely recurved from 

 the middle and longly subulate, seta red, smooth ; capsule oblong, 

 cernuous, curved, brown ; lid conical, pointed, teeth reddish-brown, 

 endostome yellow. Male infl. gemmiform, the bracts erecto-patent, inner 

 with toothed subulate points. 



HAB. On stones in woods and at tree roots, not common. Fr. 12 2. 



Near Castle Howard static 

 1858). Near Newton Vi 



Var. /?. Mildei Schimp. 



Near Castle Howard station (Spruce 1847) ! ! Forfar (Drummond). St. Andrews (Howie 

 1858). Near Newton Viaduct (Wilson 1847). 



