HYPNACEvE.j 116 \Hypnum. 



Camptothechtm nitens SCHIMP. Rynops. 530 (1860), 2 ed. 637. MILDE Bry. Siles. 329 

 (1869). DE NOT. Epilogo 102 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 197 (1884). HUSN. Muse, 

 gall. 320, t. 92 (1892). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 397 (1896). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. 

 kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 58 (1896). 



Dioicous; growing in bogs in yellowish-green silky tufts. Stems 

 irregularly pinnate, densely radiculose, the branches bifarious acute. 

 Leaves crowded, erecto-patent, lanceolate-acuminate, deeply plicate, nerve 

 ending below apex, margin entire, recurved below point ; cells narrow, 

 about 12 times as long as broad, brown and longish oval at base. 

 Perichaetial bracts appressed, inner long and subulate at apex, plicate, 

 with a thin nerve, seta purple smooth ; capsule cernuous, cylindraceous, 

 arcuate, reddish brown, lid conical, pointed ; peristome yellow.* 



HAD. In moorland bogs, not common. Fr. 4 5, rare. 



Pentland hills (Maughan). Kinross (Arnott). Argyleshire (Cannichacl). Acle, Norfolk 



(Turner). Copgrove, York?. (Daffoti). Knutsford moor, Cheshire c. fr. (Wilson) ! ! 



Terrington Carr, Yorks. c. fr. (Spruce) ! ! now destroyed alon^ with its companion 

 Paluddla. 



A fine moss, with beautiful silky gloss, and the stems coated densely 

 with fine radicles, 



42. HYPNUM LTJTESCENS Finds. 



Antoicous ; stem suberect, irregularly branched, branches erect, 

 pointed. Leaves imbricated, elongate lanceolate, acuminate, 4-plicate, 

 entire, nerve ceasing below apex. Seta rough, capsule oblong, cernuous, 

 arched ; lid conic rostellate. (T. CVII, A.) 



SYN. Hypmtm sericcum, stircnlis longioribtis et rectiorlbus, capsulis inciirvis DILL. Hist. muse. 

 325, t. 42, f. 60 (1741), et Herbar. 



Hypnam Intcsccns HUDS. Fl. Angl. 421 (1762). SCHREB. Spic. Fl. Lips. 98 (1771). 

 WITHER. Bot. arr. ii, 683 (1776). RELHAN Fl. Cant. Suppl. 20 (1786). ROTH Fl. 

 Germ. 467 (1788). SIBTH. Fl. Oxon. 298 (1794)- HOFFM. Deutsch. Fl. ii, 75 (1795). 

 HEDW. Muse. fr. iv, 40, t. 16 (1797), Sp. muse. 274. SWARTZ Muse. suec. 75 (1799). 

 BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 164 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 175 (1812), Mant. 172 (1819), Bry. 

 univ. ii, 465 (1827). SMITH Fl. Brit. 1311 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1301. TURN. Muse, 

 hib. 175 (1804). SCHULTZ Fl. Starg. 333 (1806). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 314 (1807). 

 ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 109 (1813). SCHWAEG. Supp. I, P. II, 237 (1816). HOOK. 

 TAY. Muse. Brit. 100 (1818). HOOK. Fl. Scot. P. II, 143 (1821), Br. Fl. ii, 83 (1833). 

 FUNCK Moostasch. 60, t. 42 (1821). GRAY Nat. Arr. i, 757 (1821). HUEBEN. Muse. 

 Germ. 640 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 28 (1838). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 296 (1848). 

 C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 370 (1851). WILS. Bry. Brit. 338 (1855). BERK. Handb. br. m. 

 75, t. 5, f. 2 (1865). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 331 (188^). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 

 137 (1884). 



Hypmtm sericcum ft, pralongiim WEISS Crypt. Goet. 255 (1770). 

 Hypmtm sericcum J3. ramosum LEERS Fl. Herborn. (1775). 

 Hypmtm myosuroides 8. pralongum WEB. Spic. fl. Goett. n. 163 (1778) 

 Neckera sericea Var. ft. LEYSS. Fl. Hal. n. 1075 (1783). 



