HYPNACE*.] 186 [Entodon. 



Var. 8. casspitosum Whitehead MSS. DIXON Stud. Handb. 491. 



Stems short, densely tufted ; leaves all narrow, somewhat tapering and pointed, 

 erecto-patent, not convolute at points of stems. 

 HAB. Monk's dale, Derby (Barker 1888). 



24. ENTODON C Muell. 



Bot. Zeit. 1844, p. 740. 



Stem creeping, with ascending branches or procumbent and pinnate. 

 Leaves crowded, complanate, ovate-oblong, smooth and glossy, equal or 

 a little diverse ; nerves two, very short or none ; cells narrow, linear, at 

 angles a group of small and quadrate ones. Capsule regular cylindraceous, 

 erect ; calyptra dimidiate ; lid conical or rostellate ; peristome inserted 

 below orifice ; teeth 16, narrow, lanceolate ; processes dark-coloured, without 

 cilia. Der. eVro? within, o8ov<? a tooth. 



Above 150 species are referred to this genus, of which Cylindrothecium forms 

 a section, having distichous branches, and the processes of endostome narrow. 



ENTODON OETHOCAEPUS (La Pyl.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; resembling Hylocomium parietinum ; pinnate, growing in 

 lax glossy brownish-yellow tufts, the branches crowded and divergent ; 

 leaves ovate, obtuse, entire, nerveless. Capsule cylindric, erect ; lid conical. 

 (T. CXVIII, D.) 



Schreberi y. orthocarpunt BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 422 (1827). 

 Hypnum orthocarpunt LA PYL. MSS. in BRID. op. cit. p. 422. 

 Hypnutn concinnum DE NOT. Mantis, no. 18 (1835). 



Isothecium insidiosunt Mont, in Ann. des Sci. nat. xx, 352, t. 15, f. I (1843). 

 Entodon MontagneiC. MUELL. in Linneea xviii, 708 (1844). 



Entodon insidiosus SPRUCE Muse. Pyren. no. 72, et in Ann. Mag. nat. Hist, iii, 149 (1849). 

 Neckera orthocarpa C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 69 (1850). 



: S 2*- Bry - Eur ' fasc " 46-47, P. 6, t. 2 (1851). WILS. Bry. 

 ERK ' Handb - MI (1863). DE NOT. Epilogo2i3 (1869). HOBK. 



Hypnutn Montagnei HARTM. Skand. fl. 7 ed. (1858). 



, B &S 



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Hypnum dolosum DE NOT. Epilogo 170 (1869). 

 Entodon orthocarpus LINDB.' Muse, scand. 39 (1879). 



