HYPNACE^.] 143 [Hytocamium. 



at back in the upper part with minute spinulose papillae, multiplicate 

 margin serrulate, nerves two, slender, | f length of leaf, cells narrow and 

 linear, lax, rectangular and yellow at base. Perich. bracts not plicate, 

 appressed, suddenly subulate and squarrosely recurved; seta purple, 

 capsule roundish-ovate, cernuous, castaneous, gibbous, lid conical, 

 peristome orange. 



HAS. Woods and hedges, common. Fr. 12 2. 



A fine moss not often found in fruit. Sometimes the leaves are more or 

 less secund, and a form also occurs, especially on sandy places by the sea, in 

 dense dark green tufts, with short stems, and crowded leaves. St. Anne's, 

 Lancashire (Beesky 1901). 



7. HYLOCOMITJM SQUARROSUM (L.) Br. Sch. 



Dioicous ; erect, slender, irregularly pinnate. Stem-leaves crowded, 

 ovato-acuminate, squarrose and recurved, faintly striate, serrulate, 

 two-nerved at base. Capsule roundish-ovate, cernuous, lid conical. 

 (T. CXI, B.) 



SYN. Hypnum repens triangularibus reflexisfoliis minus, DILL, in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 82 (1724), 

 Hist. muse. 304, t. 39. f. 39 (1741) et Herbar. 



Hypnum squarrosum L. Sp. pi. 1127 (1753). HUDS. Fl. Angl. 425 (1762). WEISS Ctypt. 

 Goett. 242 (1770). NECK. Meth, muse. 171 (1771). WITHER. Bot. arrang. ii, 686 

 (1776). LIGHTF. Fl. Scot. 755 (1777). WEB. Spic. fl. Goett. 70 (1776). HEDW. Fund. I, 



94 (1782), Sp. Muse. 282. RELH. Fl. Cant. 413 (1785). ROTH Fl. Germ, i, 469 

 (1788). SIBTH. Fl. Oxon. 299 (1794). HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii. 65 (1795). SWARTZ 

 Muse. Suec. 59 (1799). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 146 (1801), Sp. Muse. II, 204 (1812), 

 Mant. 176 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 511 (1827). SM. Fl. Brit. 1323 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1593. 

 TURN. Muse. Hib. 184 (1804). SCHULTZ Fl. Starg. 329 (1806). WEB. MOHR Bot. 

 Tasch. 353 (1807). WAHLEN. Fl. Lapp. 374 (1812), Fl. Carpal. 359 (1814). SCHWAEG. 

 Suppl. I, P. II. 282 (1816). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. Brit. 108 (1818). HOOK. Fl. Scot. P. 2, 

 146 (1821). GRAY Nat. Air. i, 763 (1821). FUNCK Moot,t. 64, t. 48 (1821). HUEBEN. 

 Muse. Germ. 667 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 40 (1838). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II. S. 3, 278 

 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 443 (1851). WILS. Bry. Brit. 386 (1855). BERK. 

 Handb. 113, t. 10 (1863). MILDE Bry. Sites. 343 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 181 (1873). 

 BOULAY Muse. Fr. 3 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 409 (1884). 



Hylocomiiim squarrosum BR. SCH. Bry. Eur. fasc. 49 51, p. 9. t. 6 (1852). SCHIMP. 

 Synops. 656 (1860), 2 ed. 802. HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 233 (1884). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 

 425, t. 123 (1894). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 497 (1896). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. 

 Laubm.iii, 594 (1901). 



Dioicous ; in lax soft tufts, bright or yellowish green. Stems red, 

 slender erect irregularly pinnate, the branches distant and unequal. 

 Stem-leaves squarrose and recurved, crowded, ovate at base, concave, 

 becoming narrow and lanceolate, smooth at back, serrulate at apex, 

 nerves none or two very short ones ; cells pointed, linear, rectangular at 

 base, at angles oval. Branch-leaves narrower, less squarrose. Perich. 

 bracts not plicate, outer recurved, inner erect, lanceolate with long 



