HYPNACE^E.] 169 \Stereodon. 



Pylaisia polyantha BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 4647, p. 3, L I (1851). SCHIMP. Synops. 

 518 (1860), 2 ed. 624. BERK. Handb. 142 (1863). DE NOT. Epilogo 208 (1869). MILDE 

 Bry. Siles. 295 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 196 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 

 308 (1884). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 312, t. 89 (1892). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 390 (1896). 

 LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 10 (1899). 



Stereodon polyanthos MITT. Journ. Linn. Soc. viii, 40 (1864). 



Autoicous ; in small bright green glossy tufts. Stem creeping, 

 radiculose, subpinnate, the branches short ascending or erect and curved. 

 Leaves erecto-patent, subsecund, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat 

 oblique, flat and entire at margin ; nerves none or two, very short and 

 obscure. Cells narrow linear, at base rectangular, at angles quadrate 

 and oval, in 4 5 rows. Perich. bracts erect, inner vaginant, broadly 

 lanceolate, serrulate in the short acutely acuminate point ; seta purple ; 

 capsule symmetric erect, cylindraceous with a short neck, rufescent ; lid 

 conical ; peristome yellow, endostome paler, processes lanceolate-subulate, 

 longer than the teeth, fenestrate, cilia rudimentary. 



HAB. Trunks and branches of trees, not common. Fr. 7 8. 



Darlington (Backhouse 1822). Forfar (Drummond). Beaumaris (Wilson 1830). Killarney 

 (Moore) ! ! Llanberis (Pearson) ! ! Derbyshire (Wilson). York (Spruce). Bolton 

 Abbey (Hunt 1867). Cockmill wood, Whitby (Braithwaite). 



By most of the older authors this moss appears to have been confused with 

 S. cupressiformis Var. filiformis, so that it is not possible to separate them by the 

 descriptions ; the leaf-cells in the latter, however, are much longer and narrower 

 than in S. polyanthos, which, moreover, is generally found with fruit. 



13. STEBEODON SUBEUFUS (Wils.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; slender in silky interwoven lax pale green tufts. Stem 

 creeping with stoloniform prolongations and short branches. Leaves 

 lanceolate-subulate, secund, entire, nerveless, not plicate ; cells uniform, 

 flexuose linear. Capsule oblong-oval, tapering at base ; lid conical. 

 (T. CXV, D.) 



SYN. Leskea polyantha /3. sericeola BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 313 (1827). 



Leskea irrorata SENDT. Beob. ueber die klim. verbreit. d. Laubm. 26 (1848). 

 Leskea mtricata HARTM. Skand. fl. S ed. 336 (1849), non Pter. intricate* Hedw. 

 Hypnum irroratum C. MUELL. Synop. ii, 395 ( l8 50- 

 Isothectutn homomallum SPRUCE MS. 



^6)! 9 ViMPR 4 in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 17, fig- 355 (1896;. 

 Leskea subrufa WILS. Bry. Brit. 33 4, t. 54 (i*SS)- HOBK. Synops. 

 Holmgrenia intricata LINDB. Oefv. vet. ak. foerh. (1862) p. 605. 



