NECKERACE*.] 202 \_Neckera. 



SVN.MUSCHS vulgaris minor caulicttlis compressis RAY Synops. 244 (1690). 



Muscus (eirestrts surculis compressis, tenuior et minor RAY Synops. 2 ed. 39 (1696). 

 Hypnum repens filicifolium ramosum, ramulis appressis et magis complanatis DILL. Cat. Giss, 



218 (1718), et in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 87 (1724). 

 Hypnum pennatum, compressum et splendens, capsulis ovatis DILL. Hist. muse. 268, t. 34, 



f. 7 (1741) et Herb. 

 Hypnum complanatum L. Sp. plant. 1123 (1753)- HUDS. Fl. Angl. 419 (1762). WEISS 



Crvot Goett 218 (1770). NECK. Meth. muse. 155 (i?70- WITHER. Bot. arrang. 11, 



68i (1776). LIGHTF. Fl. Scot, ii, 742 (1777). WEB. Spic. Fl. Goett. 49 (1778). RELH. 



Fl. Cant. 408 (1785). ROTH Tent. Fl. Germ. 464 (1788). HOFFM. Deutsch. Fl. ii, 57 



(1795) SM Fl. Brit. 1286 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1493. TURN. Muse. Hib. 154 (1804). 



P. BEAUV. Prodr. 62 (1805). HOOK. TAYU Muse. Br. 91 (1818), Fl. Scot. II, I 4 i (1821). 



GRAY Nat. arrang. i, 752 (1821). 

 Hypnum omithopodioides SCOP. Fl. Cam. 150 (1760). 



Leskea complanata HEDW. Fund. muse. II, 93, t. 10, f. 62-65 (1782), Sp. muse. 281 (1801). 

 SIBTH. Fl. Oxon. 302 (1794). SWARTZ Muse. Suec. 68 (1799). BRID. Muse. rec. II, 

 P. II, 34, t. I, f. 2 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 50 (1812), Mant. 143 (1819). SCHULTZ Fl. Starg. 

 68 (1806). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 243 (1807). ROEHL. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 85 (1813). 

 WAHLENB. Fl. Lapp. 567 (1812). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 163 (1816). FUNCK Moost. 

 54, t. 35 (1821). DE NOT. Syllab. 61 (1838). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, s. 3, 252 (1848). 



Leskea Omalta complanata BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 327 (1827). 



Neckera complanata HUEBEN. Muse. Germ. 576 (1833). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 43 (1851). 

 *BR. SCH. Bry. Eur. fasc. 4445, p. 9, t. 5 (1850). WILS. Bry. Brit. 411 (1855). SCHIMP. 

 Synops. 470 (1860), 2 ed. 569. BERK. Handb. 71, t. 4 (1863). MILDE Bry. Siles. 283 

 (1869). HOBK. Synop. 182 (1873). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 184 (1884). LESQ. JAMES Moss. 

 N. Amer. 200 (1884). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 292, t. 83 (1892). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 

 361 (1896). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 710 (1895). 



Homalia complanata DE NOT. Epilogo 199 (1869). 



Eleutera omithopodioides STUNTZ in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club xxvii, 209 (1900). 



Dioicous ; growing in lax pale green glossy tufts ; stems very slender, 

 the secondary ascending, pinnate, the branches often lash-like at end, 

 with a few lanceolate paraphyllia. Leaves unsymmetric, complanate, not 

 undulate, oblong-lingulate, obtuse with a short apiculus, finely serrulate 

 at apex, the margin inflexed on one side at base ; cells rhombic above, 

 linear below, and oval at the decurrent basal angles ; nerve none, or short 

 and forked ; leaves of the flagella ovato-lanceolate. Inner perich. bracts 

 long and sheathing, lanceolate-acuminate ; seta rather short, stramineous ; 

 capsule erect, elliptic-oval, reddish-yellow ; lid obliquely rostrate, half length 

 of capsule ; calyptra naked, or with a few scattered hairs ; teeth of peri- 

 stome pale yellow, narrow and lineal ; processes of endostome half as long. 

 HAB. Trunks and branches of trees, sometimes on rocks. Fr. 1 112. 



Var. /3. tenella Schimp. 



Very small and creeping. Leaves only half as large, obovate-lanceolate, short- 

 pointed, nerveless ; all the cells wider, rhombic. 



HAB.-Near Castle Mill, Ringway (Wilson 1833)! Near Ladbrook, Warwick 

 (Lagnall 1876). 



Sect. 2. RHYSTOPHYLLUM Ehrh. Leaves transversely undulated. 



