HYPNACEJB.] 140 [Hylocomium. 



Hypnum filicinum, Tamarisci Mils majorlbus splendentibus DILL. Hist. muse. 274, t. 35, 



f. 13 (1741) et Herbar. 

 Hypnum ramis planopennatis, continnata serie cxtensis L. Fl. Lapp. p. 319, n. 406 (1737). 



Hytnum proliterum L. Fl. Suec. 2 ed. 1020 (1745). Mantissa ii, 507 (1771). HUDS. Fl. 

 An"l 422 (1762). WEBER Spic. Goett. 61 (1778)- CURTIS Fl. Lond. t. g (1777). 

 VILL' PL Dauph. Hi, 899 (1786). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 68 (1801). SCHULTZ 

 Fl. Starg. 316 (1806). WAHLENB. Fl. Lapp. 373 (1812), Fl. Suec. 2 ed. ii, 721. 



Hypnum parietimtm L. Syst. Veg. 1590. HUDS. Fl. Angl. 422 (1762). WEISS Cr. Goett. 

 232 (1770). NECK. Meth. muse. 175 (1771). SCHMIDEL Icon, et Anal. t. 58, f. 3 (1776). 

 WITHER. Bot. arrang. ii, 684 (1776). LIGHTF. Fl. Scot, ii, 751 (1777)- HEDW. 

 Fundam. ii, 94, t. 4, f. 13 (1782). RELHAN Fl. Cant. 410 (1785). ROTH Tent. fl. Germ, 

 i, 467 (1788). HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 60 (1796). SWARTZ Muse. Suec. 73 (1799)- 

 HULL Br. fl. P. II. 271 (1799). 



Hyf>nnm splendens SIBTH. Fl. Oxon. 295 (1794). HOST Syn. pi. Austr. 591 (1797). 

 HEDW. Sp. muse. 262, t. 67, fg. 69 (1801). SM. Fl. Brit. 1296 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 

 1424. TURN. Muse. Hib. 156 (1804). P. BEAUV. Prodr. 72 (1805). WEB. MOHR Bot. 

 Tasch. 338 (1807). VOIT Muse. herb. 105 (1812), et in STURM Fl. Germ. II, fasc. 13. 

 BRIU. Sp. muse. II, 137 (1812), Mant. 163 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 435 (1827). ROEHI,. 

 Deutsch. fl. iii, 101 (1813). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 237 (1816). HOOK. TAYL. Muse, 

 brit. 103 (1818). HOOK. Fl. Scot. 144 (1821). FUHCK Moost. 60, t. 42 (1821). GRAY 

 Nat. arrang. i, 759 (1821). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 656 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 17 

 (1838). RABENH. D. kr. fl. U, S. 3, 267 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 457 (1851). 

 WILS. Bry. Brit. 381 (1855). BERK. Handb. no, t. 9 (1863). HOBK. Synops. 180 (1873). 

 BOUL. Muse. Fr. 9 (1884). 



Hylocomium sp2cndfnsEt>. Sen. Bry. Eur. fasc. 49 51, p. 5, t. i (1852). SCHIMP. Synops. 

 652 (1860), 2 ed. 798. MILDE Bry. Siles. 377 (1809). DE NOT. Epilogo 93 (1869). 

 HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 232 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Mo.-s. N. Amer. 407 (1884). HUSN. 

 Muse. gall. 422, t. 122 (1894). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 493 (1896). LIMPR. in 

 RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 577, f. 436 (1901). 



Thnidium splendens BROCKM. Laubm. Mecklenb. 118 (1869). 

 Hylocomium prolifcrum LINDB. in Acta Soc. sci. fenn. x, 20 (1871). 



Dioicous ; yellowish or olivaceous green, glossy. Stem 3 6 in. 

 long, erect or ascending, .interruptedly bi-tri-pinnate, rising by arcuate 

 stages, the branches slender and acute. Paraphyllia numerous with very 

 slender divisions. Stem-leaves imbricated, broadly ovate, suddenly 

 narrowed into long flexuose points, slightly plicate, concave, roughish 

 towards apex at back with distant spinules, margin recurved below, 

 serrulate above, nerves two, length of leaf; cells small, orange at base, 

 narrow oval. Branch-leaves oval, pointed. Perich. bracts convolute, 

 broadly lanceolate, with slender recurved points ; seta purple, smooth, 

 capsule ovate, cernuous, castaneous, lid conico-rostellate ; teeth united at 

 base, yellow, cilia 2 4. 



HAB. Heaths and woods, common. Fr. 4, rare. 



Linnaeus strangely confounded this species with Tlntidium tamariscifolium 

 id also with H.parietinum as evidenced by his herbarium, and this led to 

 sunderstandmg among some of his immediate successors, so that it is 

 Scult to clear up the synonymy of the three species. 



