NECKERACE*.] 203 [Neckera. 



2. NECKERA CRISPA (Z.) Hedw. 



Dioicous; robust, in large lax tufts. Stem pinnate; leaves com- 

 planate, strongly undulate, ovate-oblong, apiculate, with a short faint nerve 

 at base. Capsule on a short seta, erect, roundish ovate. (T. CXXI, A.) 



Major, ramulis compressis foltts superficie crispis Doody. RAY Synops. 



Hypnum repetis crispum ramulis compressis, fiUcinorum more dispositis DILL. Cat Giss 217 

 (1718), et in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 89 (1724). 



Hy { 12 A^B"!? T^TST" CrtS/>un> > setis ^capsttlis brevibus DILL. Hist, rouse. 273, t. 36 



Hypnum crispum L. Sp. plant. 1124 0753)- HUDS. Fl. Angl. 420 (1762). WEISS Crypt. 

 Goett. 221 (1770). NECK. Meth. muse. 153 (1771). WITHER. Bot. arrang. ii, 682 (1776). 

 LIGHTF. Fl. Scot, ii, 745 (1777). WEB. Spic. Fl. Goett. 54 (1778). 



Neckera crispa HEDW. Fund. muse. II, 93, t. 12, f. 47-48 (1782), Sp. muse. 206 (1801). 

 ROTH Fl. Germ, i, 462 (1788). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, ii (1801), Sp. muse. II, 27, 

 (1812), Mant. 138 (1819). SWARTZ Muse. suec. 70 ( 1799). SM. Fl. Brit. 1273 (1804), 

 Eng. Bot. t. 617. TURN. Muse. Hib. 101 (1804). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 218 (1807). 

 ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 83 (1813). WAHLENB. Fl'. Carp. 355 (1814). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, 

 P. II, 147 (1816). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. Brit. 78(1818). SCHULTZ Suppl. Fl. Starg 74 

 (1819). FUNCK Moost. 53, t. 33 (1821). HOOK. Fl. Scot. II, 138 (1821). GRAY Nat 

 arrang. i, 748 (1821). HUEBEN. Muse. Germ. 573 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 68 (1838). 

 Epilogo 194 (1869). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 302 (1848). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 54 

 (1851). BR. SCH. Bry. Eur. fasc. 4445, p. 9, t. 4 (1850). SCHIMP. Synops. 469 (1860), 

 2ed. 568. WILS. Bry. Brit. 412 (1855). BERK. Handb. 70,1. 4 (1863). MILDE Bry. 

 Siles. 283 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 183 (1873). JURATZ. Laubm. flora Oester.-Ung. 364 

 (1882). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 181 (1884). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 291, t. 82 (1892). Dix. 

 JAMES. Stud. Handb. 360 (1896). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 707, Fig. 333 



Leskea crispa SCHRANK Prim. Fl. Salisb. 835 (1792). 

 Neckera Distichia crispa BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 246 (1827). 



Dioicous ; growing in large robust tufts, glossy, yellowish or brownish 

 green, ferruginous at base. Secondary stem 4 8 in. long, irregularly 

 pinnate, ascending at points. Leaves erecto-patent, unsymmetric, inflexed 

 on one side at base, broadly lingulate, with a short apiculus, and $ 6 

 transverse semicircular strias, serrate at point ; nerve none, or short and 

 forked ; cells rhombic above, linear below, roundish at basal angles. 

 Perich. bracts lanceolate, the inner convolute, tubular, longly acuminate, 

 nerved to middle ; seta thrice as long, pale yellowish ; capsule erect, 

 roundish-ovate, yellowish-brown ; calyptra slightly hairy when young, lid 

 long as capsule, with a subulate beak. Peristome pale yellow, teeth 

 narrow linear-lanceolate, endostome a narrow basal membrane with pro- 

 cesses subulate and half as long as teeth. 



HAB. Trunks of trees and rocks, not uncommon. Fr. 113. 

 Var. /3. falcata Boul. Muse. Fran. 181 (1884). 



Branches denser, shorter, hooked at point. Leaves concave, falcato-secund, 



dark lurid green, less undulated. 



