HYPNACE.B.] i5 [Stereodon. 



secund, gradually lanceolate-subulate, serrated at point, margin reflexed 

 at base, nerves two, short, cells at base rectangular, at angles quadrate, 

 orange. Capsule cylindric, suberect. (T. CXIII, D.) 



SYN. Hypnum imfonens HEDW. Sp. muse. 290, t. 77 (1801). RICH, in MICH. Fl. Amer. bor. ii, 

 315 (1803). BRIO. Sp. muse. II, 220 (1812), Mant. 179 (1819). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, 

 P.'ll, 291 (1816). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 291 et ft. chrysocytus (1851). BR. Sen. Bry. 

 Eur. fasc. 5761, p. 28, t. 17 (1854). SCHIMP. Synops. 624 (1860), 2 ed. 754. MILDE 

 Bry. Siles.36o (1869). HOBK. Synops. 173 (1873). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 393 

 (1884). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 404, t. 116 (1894). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 473 (1896). 

 LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 470 (1899). 



Hypnnm Stereodon imponens BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 618 (1827). 

 Hypnnm cupressiforme * imponens BOULAY Muse. Fr. 34 (1884). 



Dioicous ; in spreading flat green or yellow-green tufts, pinnate, the 

 branches spreading in two rows, slender, hooked. Paraphyllia lanceolate 

 and palmate. Stem-leaves crowded, falcato-secund to each side, from a 

 scarce decurrent broadly ovate base, lanceolate-subulate, concave, the 

 margin reflexed at base, serrate towards point ; nerves two, very short, 

 cells narrow, linear, pointed, somewhat flexuose, empty, at base elongated 

 rectangular, yellow, at the concave angles a cluster of large orange 

 quadrate cells. Perich. bracts few, erect, inner broadly lanceolate with a 

 long subulate point, many-plicate nerveless, serrate at point ; seta reddish, 

 capsule suberect, cylindric, a little curved, castaneous ; lid convex with 

 an acute point ; peristome yellow papillose. 



HAB. On the ground on heaths and rocks, rare. 



Reigate heath, Surrey (Mitten 1864)!! Strensal common, York (Spruce 1859). Oxshott 

 common Surrey (A/. Lawson)\\ Ben Lawers (Meldrum)\\ Fritham plain, New 

 torest (Holmes 1875). Copthorne common, Sussex (W. E. Nicholson). 



3- STEREODON BAMBERGERI (Schimp.) Lindb. 



Dioicous; in dense tufts, fuscous, yellowish and green, erect, 

 sparingly branched. Leaves bifarious, glossy, from an erect base, 

 subcircularly recurved, oblongo-lanceolate-subulate, very concave, entire, 

 nerve short, forked or obsolete, cells at basal angles few, small quadrate, 

 orange. Capsule cylindraceous. (T. CXV, A.) 



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

 ftfreodon Bambergeri LINDB. Muse, scand. 38 (1879). 



