HYPNACE^E.] 159 [Stereodon. 



Dioicous ; in dense glossy brownish-green tufts, rust-coloured at base ; 

 stems 2 4 in. high, erect, branches short and irregular, leaves densely 

 crowded, bifarious, secund, from an erect, longish ovate base, gradually 

 lanceolate, circularly falcate, with a flexuose subula, margin entire ; cells 

 incrassate linear, at base orange, at angles a cluster of small quadrate 

 and oval orange cells. Perich. bracts sheathing, lanceolate, plicate, 

 nerveless, serrate at apex, suddenly extended in a long recurved subula, 

 seta reddish, capsule cylindraceous, curved, dark brown, lid orange, 

 conical ; peristome yellow. 



HAB. Calcareous rocks and detritus on mountains, very rare. 



Near summit of Ben Lawers (Dr. Frazer 1867) ! ! Craig Chailleach (Dixon & Binstcad 



1898) ! ! 



The fruit has only once been found, and that by Dr. Adlerz in 1885 at 

 Kongsvold in the Dovrefjeld, but the sterile plant occurs throughout the 

 Tyrol and in Switzerland. 



4. STEREODON CUPRESSIFORMIS (L.) Bvid. 



Dioicous ; procumbent, subpinnate, in spreading yellow-green tufts. 

 Stem-leaves falcato-secund, bifarious, imbricated, longly lanceolate- 

 acuminate, serrated at point, shortly 2-nerved or nerveless, basal cells 

 rectangular, at angles 5 or 6 rows of quadrate hyaline or yellow cells. 

 Perich. bracts erect, lanceolate, piliform at point ; capsule subcylindric, 

 curved, subcernuous, lid conico-rostellate. (T. CXIII, E.) 



SYN. Mnsctu terrestris medius, supinus et repens, foliis crebris in acutos mucrones product!* RAY 



Synops. 2 ed. 37 (1696). 

 Hypnum repens crispum ctipressiforme minus DILL. Cat. Giss. 217 (1718). 



Hypnum crispum ctipressiforme, foliis aduncis DILL. Hist. muse. 287, t. 37. f - 2 3 (i74')i 



et Herb. 

 Hypnum filicinum senceum, molle et pallidum mucronibus aduncis DILL. Hist. muse. a86, 



t. 36, f. 22, A. B. et Herb. 

 Hvpnum myosuroides sericeum Unuhis, capsulis erectis DILL. Hist. muse. 318, t. 41, f. 53. 



"et Herb. 







