t . [Hytocomium. 



HYPNACEJE.] 



setaceous points ; seta purple, capsule horizontal or drooping, castaneous, 



ovate and gibbous, lid red, acutely conical. 



HAB. Banks and woods, common. Fr. 11-12, scarce. 



Var. /?. calvescens Wils. 



Resembling H brevirostre ; stems procumbent at base, pinnate, the branches 



numerous, quadrate and rectangular. 



SYN.-Hy/ calvescens WILS. Bry. Brit. 387, in adnot. 



Hypnum subphtnatum L!NDB. in HARTM. Skand. fl. 9 ed. 13. MILDE Bry. Siles. 344- 

 Hylocomium subpinnatum LINDB. in Hedwigia 1867, p. 4 L et in Notis. ur Saellsk. Fl. et. 



Faun. fenn. foerh. 1868, p. 271. 

 Hylocomium calvescens LINDB. Muse, scand. 37. 



Hylocomium sqwrrosum ft. patulum JuR- BROCKM. Laubm. Meckl. 149. 

 Hylocomium squarrosum Var. subpinnatum SCHIMP. Synops. 2 ed. 803. 

 Pleurozium calvescens KINDB. in Rev. bryol. 1895, p. 82. 



Hylocomium squarrosum Var. (3. calvescens HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 234. LIMPR. in RABENH. 

 D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 596. 



HAB. Wet rocky places in subalpine districts. 



Rowes wood (Wilson 1848)!! Whaley bridge (Whitehead 1863). Long Sleddale and 

 near Kendal (Binstead 1885) ! ! Stock Ghyll (Stabler 1887). 



8. HYLOCOMIUM LOREUM (L.) Br. Sch. 



Dioicous; in lax expanded tufts, irregularly pinnate. Stem-leaves 

 subsecund, ovato-lanceolate, gradually extended into a long subulate 

 recurved acumen, plicate below, faintly two-nerved. Capsule ovate, 

 lightly striate when empty. (T. CXI, C.) 



SYN. Hypnum repens, triangularibus reflcxh foliis majiis DILL. Cat. Giss. 219 (1718), et in 

 RAY Synops. 3 ed. 82 (1724), Hist. muse. 303 t. 39, f. 38 (1741) et Herbar. 



Muscus erectus major, foliis angmtioribus acutis RAY Synops. 2 ed. 337 (1696). 



Hypnum repens surculis magis erectis, foliis reflexis langioribus cinctis, operculo capituli 

 magno DILL, in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 82 (1724). 



Hypnum loreum montanum, capsulis subrotundis DILL. Hist. muse. 305, t. 39, f. 40 (1741) 

 et Herbar. 



Hypnum loreum L. Sp. plant. 1127 (1753). HUDS. Fl. Angl. 425 (1762). WEISS Or. 

 Goett. 244 (1770). NECK. Meth. muse. 170 (1771). WITHER. Bot. arr. ii, 687 (1776). 

 RELH. Fl. Cantab. 413 (1785). ROTH Fl. Germ, i, 470 (1788). SIBTH. Fl. Oxon. 

 297 (1794). HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 66 (1795). SWARTZ Muse. Suec. 59 (1799). 

 HEDW. Sp. muse. 294 (1801). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 143 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 

 206 (1812), Mant. 177 (1819), Bry. univ. ii. 515 (1827). SM. Fl. Brit. 1324 (1804), Eng. 

 Rot. t. 2072. TURN. Muse. Hib. 185 (1804). SCHULTZ Fl. Starg. 329 (1806). WEB. 

 MOHR Bot. Tasch. 253 (1807). WAHLEN. Fl. Lapp. 374 (1812). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, 



