NECKERACE*.] 204 \Ncckcra. 



HAB. Dry subalpine rocks, especially on limestone. 



Foot of Schiehallion (Braithwaite 1883) !! and Stream from Craigailleach into Glen Lochay, 

 Perthshire ! ! Hall Dale, Mill Dale, Stafford (Bagnall 1895) ! ! 



This fine moss is very luxuriant on the horizontal branches of trees at Muck- 

 ross Abbey, Killarney, and is readily known by the beautiful striated leaves. 



3 . NECKERA FONTINALOIDES (Lam.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; stem subpinnate, with short complanate branches. Leaves 

 complanate, ovate-oblong, apiculate or acuminate, one or both margins 

 reflexed at base, serrulate, two-nerved at base, slightly undulate. Cap- 

 sule elliptic. (T. CXXI, B.) 



S.Fontinahs pennata (non L.) HUDS. Fl. Angl. 398 (1762). 

 Hypnum pennatum DICKS. Crypt. Fasc. I, t. I, f. 8 (1785). 

 Hypnunt fontinaloides LAMARCK Encyc. Meth. Bot. iii, 164 (1789). 

 Hypnum pumilutn GMEL. Syst. Nat. 1341 et H. Dicksoni ibid. 1342 (1791). 



Neckera putnila HEDW. Muse, frond, iii, 49, t. 20 (1792), Sp. muse. 205 (1801). BRID. Muse, 

 rec. II, P. II, p. 10 (1801), Sp. rouse. II, 27 (1812), Mant. 137 (1819). SM. Fl. Brit. 1270 

 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1443. SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 147 (1816). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. 

 Brit. 77 (1818). HOOK. Fl. Scot. P. II, 138 (1821). GRAY Nat. arrang. i, 747 (1821). 

 HUEBEN. Muse. Germ. 575 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 68 (1838), Epilogo 195 (1869). 

 RABENH. D. kr. 0.11,5. 3, 302 (1848). BR. SCH. Bry. Eur. fasc. 4445, p. 8, t. 3 (1850). 

 C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 56 (1851). WILS. Bry. Brit. 413 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 468 

 (1860), 2 ed. 567. BERK. Handb. 70, t. 4 (1863). MILDE Bry. Siles. 282 (1869). HOBK. 

 Synops. 183 (1873). JURATZ. Laubm. fl. Oester.-Ung. 363 (1882). BOUL. Muse. Fr. 183 

 (1884). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 291, t. 82 (1892). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 361 (1896) 

 LIMFR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 705 (1895). 



Pilotrichum pumilum P. BEAUV. Prodr. 83 (1805). 

 Ntckera Distichia pumila BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 244 (1827). 

 Necktra fontinaloides Lindb. Muse. Scand. 40 (1879). 



Dioicous ; in small depressed deep green rather glossy tufts ; secondary 

 stem complanate, closely pinnate, the branches short and obtuse or 

 flagelliferous, sometimes with axillar bulbils. Leaves undulate when dry, 

 crowded, ovate-oblong, concave, acute or acuminate, serrate at point, nerves 

 two indistinct or none, margin on one side inflexed, on the other reflexed ; 

 cells rhombic and oval above, at angles a few yellow and oval ; leaves of 

 flagella spreading, ovato-lanceolate with fine points. Perichaetial bracts 

 erect sheathing, lanceolate-acuminate ; seta short, capsule erect, elliptic, 

 reddish-brown ; calyptra cucullate, lid conical, rostellate, acute ; teeth of 

 peristome reddish, lineal-lanceolate, endostome a hyaline membrane with 

 filiform processes. 



HAB. On trunks of trees, sometimes on rocks, not common. Fr. 10 1 1. 



Woods in Sussex. New Forest. Inverarayand Cleish. Dolgelly. Holwick Wood, Teesdale 

 (Spruce). Gilla Leys and Ray Wood, Castle Howard (Baker). 



