HYPNACE^.] 1 53 [Setnatophyllum. 



Hypnum filicinum (non L.) HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 61 (1796). ROTH, SCHRANK 

 BEAUVOIS, &c. 



Hypnum (Ptiliitm) crista-castrensis SULLIV. 1. c. LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr fl Laub iii 

 444 (1898). 



Hypnum (Ctenium) crista-castrensis SCHIMP. Synops. 632 (1860), 2 ed. 770. LESO. JAMES 

 Moss. N. Amer. 389 (1884). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 27 (1884). 



Stereodon (Drepanhim) crista-castrensis MITT. Journ. Linn. Soc. viii, 41 (1864). 

 Ptiliiim crista-castrensis DE NOT. Epilogo 101 (1869). 



Dioicous ; in lax rigid yellow-green tufts. Stems 3 5 in. high, 

 suberect, simple or divided, beset with lanceolate paraphyses, pinnate, 

 the branches in two rows, close set and spreading horizontally. Stem- 

 leaves secund, from a broad ovate base, gradually lanceolate-subulate, 

 falcate, multiplicate, faintly serrate in upper half, nerves short and double 

 or none ; cells narrow and vermiform, smooth, the basal and angular 

 longer and wider. Branch-leaves secund, circinate, crowded. Perich. 

 bracts erect, pale, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, nerveless, seta 

 purple; capsule cernuous or horizontal, cylindric, curved, brown; lid 

 conical ; teeth orange, papillose, cilia 2 4. 



HAB. In damp subalpine woods, not common. Fr. 7 8. 



Glen Dole, Clova (Drummond). Schehallion (Mclntosh). Finlarig burn and S. side of 

 Loch Tay (Stirton) ! ! Trosachs and by Loch Ard ; Glen Strae, Dalmally 

 (Braithwaite)\\ Head of Havves water (Dalton 1818). Naddle Forest (Dalton). 

 Borrowdaie, Cumberland (Clowes'). 



19. SEMATOPHYLLUM Mitt. 



Journ. Linn. Soc. viii, 5 (1864). 



Small casspitose mosses with creeping stems, pinnately branched. 

 Leaves small, glossy, smooth, basal cells oblong, fulvous, with 36 at 

 basal angles large and conspicuous. Capsule small, oblong, on a slender 

 seta, lid conic with a long subulate beak, calyptra cucullate, peristome of 

 Hypnum. Der. en//** a mark, and <v\Aov a leaf. 



A great and natural genus of some 150 species, the larger number of which 

 are found in S. America. We have only three species in Europe. 



CLAVIS TO THE SPECIES. 



demissunii 



Autoicous; leaves lanceolate, entire. micans. 



Dioicous : leaves obovate rounded, serrulate, 



