HYPNACEJE.] 164 [Sterecdon. 



Branch-leaves smaller. Seta purple, flexuose; capsule horizontal, strongly 

 contracted below mouth. 



HAB. Rocks near summit of Ben Lawers (Jameson 1890) ! ! 



The fruit of this moss has only been found twice near Heilingenblut by 

 Molendo, and by Jeanbernat in the Pyrenees. A closely allied and more widely 

 distributed species, Ster. fastigiatus BRID. ought also to be found here, but is 

 more attached to calcareous localities. 



7. STEREODON CANARIENSIS Mitt. 



Dioicous; csespitose, the stem procumbent, pinnate. Leaves falcato- 

 secund compressed ; ovato-lanceolate, gradually acutely pointed, margin 

 of the upper half sharply serrulate, the cells narrow, linear, at angles 

 quadrate, hyaline. Perich. bracts erect, elliptic-lanceolate, serrulate at 

 apex ; capsule short, oval unequal, horizontal ; lid conic acuminate. 

 (T. CXIV, C.) 



SYN. Stcreodon Canariensis MITT. Journ. Linn. Soc. viii, 5 (1864). 



Hypnum Canariense HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 222 (1884). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 477 

 (1896). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 472 (1899). 



Hypnum subcupressiformt HAMPE. 



Hypnum Waghornci KINDB. Cat. Canad. Muse. 234 (1892). 



Dioicous ; in flat dense tufts, rather glossy, bright green or light 

 fuscous in old plants ; stem creeping, pinnate, the branches spreading 

 horizontally, pointed, paraphyllia lanceolate. Stem-leaves crowded, 

 slightly falcato-secund, not decurrent, from an ovate base, gradually 

 lanceolate, acuminate, margins plane, sharply serrate above the middle, 

 nerves indistinct or none; cells narrowly linear above, yellow and 

 rectangular at base, quadrate and rectangular, hyaline and about 25 at 

 basal angles. Perich. bracts erect, divergent and serrate at points, 



iceolate-acuminate; seta red, capsule cernuous or horizontal, castaneous, 

 ovate, not curved, wide-mouthed; lid convex with an acute point, 



mulus of 2-3 rows; teeth united at base, orange, incurved when dry, 

 d papillose at point, endostome smooth, processes split in the 

 middle, cilia two. 



HAB. Wet rocks. 



{Hunt l8 6 7 ) ! On tree- 



m oretrl^ ^T bry lo S ists this oss was referred to S. cu P ressifor,ne, 



that th US1 r ^ ariS6n betWeen U and the next ^ecies; as it 

 the range of the two at Killarney is identical. The capsule in 



