HYPNACE^.] 141 [Hylocomium. 



5. HYLOCOMIUM PARIETINUM (L.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; stem erect, simply pinnate, red, without paraphyllia, 

 branches slender, curved. Leaves imbricated, shining, yellowish green, 

 elliptic, obtuse, entire, two-nerved at base ; perich. bracts erect, acutely 

 pointed. Capsule ovate-oblong, curved, cernuous ; lid conical. 

 (T. CX, D.) 



SYN. Mtiscus erectus, foliis angustis catdibus appressis Doody, RAY Synops. 2 ed. App. 337 

 (1696). 



Hypnum longum erect urn, foliis angustis caul. app. DILL, in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 83, No. 20 

 (1724). 



Hypnum cupressiforme tenuius et compressius DILL. Hist. muse. 312, t. 40, f. 47 (1741) et 

 Herbar. 



Hypnum pariet' num. L. Fl. Suec. 2 ed. no. 1200 (1755), Fl. Lapp. no. 406. 



Hypnum cu*pidatum j3. inerme WEISS Crypt. Goett. 253 (1770). WEBER Spic. Fl. Goett. 59 



Hypnum compressum SCHREB. Spic. Fl. Lips. 96 (1771). NECK. Meth. muse. 159 (1771), 

 Del. gallo-belg. ii, 477 (1778). WAHLENB. Fl. Lapp. 373 (181-2), Fl. Carpat. 357 

 (1814). 



Hypnum Schreberi WILLD. Prodr. Fl. Berol. 325, No. 955 (1787). ROTH Fl. Germ, i, 

 469 (1788). SIBTH. Fl. Oxon. 295 (1794). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 88 (1801), Sp. 

 muse. II, 122 (1812), Mant. 159 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 420(1827). SM. Fl. Brit. 1315 

 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1621, Turn. Muse. Hib. 176 (1804). P. BEAUV. Prodr. 65 (1805). 

 WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 340 (1807). ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 104 (1813). SCHWAEG. 

 Suppl. I, P. II, 227 (1816). HOOK, TAYL. Muse. Brit. 96 (1818). HOOK. Fl. Scot. P. 2, 

 143(1821). GRAY Nat. arr. i, 755 (1821). FUNCK. Moost. 58, t. 40 (1821). HUEBEN. 

 Muse. germ. 650 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 21 (1838). HARTM. Skand. fl. 4 ed. 420 

 (1843). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 288 (1848). C. MUELL. Synop. ii, 384(1851). BR. 

 Sen. Bry. Eur. fasc. 5761, p. 51, t. 37 (1854). WILS. Bry. Brit. 376 (1855). SCHIMP. 

 Synops. 645 (1860), 2 ed. 790. BERK. Handb. 108 (1863). MILDE Bry. Siles. 371 

 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 179 (1873). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 13 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. 

 N. Amer. 404 (1884). HUSNOT Muse. gall. 418, t. 61 (1894). Dix. JAMES. Stud. 

 Handb. 491 (1896). 



Hypnum purum j3, HUDS. Fl. angl. 504 (1762). 



Hypnum inerme SCHRANK Baier. fl. ii, No. 149 (1789). 



Hypnum muticum GEUNS. PI. Belg. spic. 46 (1788). SWARTZ Muse. Suec. 60 (1799). 



Stereodon Schreberi MITT. Journ. Linn. Soc. viii, 42 (1865). 



Pleurozium Schreberi MITT. Journ. Linn. Soc. xii, 537 (1869). 



Hylocomium Schreberi DE NOT. Epilogo 92 (1869). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. 



iii, 587 (1901). 

 Hylocomium parietinum LINDB. in Acta Soc. sc. fenn. x, 62 (1878), Muse. Scand. 



Dioicous ; in yellowish-green glossy lax tufts. Stem erect, simply 

 pinnate, red, without paraphyllia, 46 in. high, the branches divergent, 

 attenuated and curved downward. Stem-leaves imbricated, suberect, 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, entire, margin incurved toward apex and faintly 

 crenulate at point, nerves two, very short ; cells linear, at basal angles 



