HYPNACE*.] l6 [SiereodM. 



, f,ar B \ RR Sen Brv Eur. fasc. 57 6r, p. 23, t. 14, 15 (1854). SCHIMP. Synops. 

 &&&& BE y RK Handb.i 2 5,t.ii(i86 3 ). MILDE B.y. Siles. 361 (1869). 

 HOBK SvnoDS i?' (1873). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 31 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. 



HOBK SvnoDS i?' (1873). 



Amer.' wK) SSi Muse. Gall. 404, t. 116 (1894). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 



470 (1896) LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. in, 484 (1899). 



Neckera cupressiformis WILLD. Prodr. fl. Berol. 936 (1787). 

 Hypnum nitcns TIMM. Prodr. fl. Megap. no. 828 (1788). 

 Hypnum decipiens HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 73 (1796). 

 Hypnum nigro-viride DICKS. Fasc. crypt. IV, 18 (1801). 

 Hypnum Stcreodon cupressiforme BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 605 (1827). 



Dioicous ; growing in flat expanded tufts, glossy, pale green, 

 olivaceous or brownish, sometimes blackish green. Stem creeping, 

 ascending or suberect, distantly or regularly pinnate, branches ascending 

 more or less falcate at point, with very few subulate paraphyllia. Leaves 

 dense in two rows, imbricated, falcato-secund or hooked, lanceolate, 

 gradually running out into a long subulate point, slightly decurrent at 

 base, concave, not plicate, margin often recurved on one side above the 

 base, entire or serrulate in the point, nerves none or two very short ones. 

 Cells linear-vermiform 10 15 times long as broad, incrassate and 

 rectangular at base, at angles a group of 5 6 rows of vesicular hyaline, 

 incrassate quadrate cells, often opake with granules ; branch-leaves smaller 

 and narrower. Perich. bracts pale, outer divergent, inner sheathing, 

 elongate lanceolate, acuminate, nerveless, seta purple ; capsule cernuous 

 or suberect, cylindraceous, lightly curved, castaneous ; lid convex, 

 rostellate, annulus orange of two rows, teeth united at base 

 rufous, endostome yellowish, papillose, processes perforated, cilia 23. 

 Male infl. gemmiform, the bracts ovate, with long subulate recurved 

 points. 



HAB. On the ground, stone walls, thatched roofs, tree-trunks, very common. 

 Fr. io2. 



Var. /?. tectorum Bry. eur. I.e. t. 15, f. B. 12. 



In dense tumid, yellow-green and brownish tufts, with fkc margins. 



s stout, trailing, pinnate, the branches close, curved, erect. Leaves 

 densely imbricated, oval, acuminate, secund and decurved at points. Capsule 

 shorter, incurved, lid rostellate. 



HAB. On roofs and walls. 



Sand hills, St. Annes, Lane. (Beesley 1901) ! ! 



Var. y . brevisetum Schimp. Synops. 626. 



' short 



concave ' with a fine point ' 



