NECKERACEA] 2O5 



Var. (3. Phillippei (Br. Sch.) Lindb. 



Plants prostrate. Leaves strongly undulate, suddenly ending in a long narrow 

 flexuose serrated point. 



^.-Neckera Philippeana Bry. Eur. fasc. 44-45, P- 1 1, t. 6 (1850). SCH,MP. Synops. 47,. 

 Neckera pumila var. pilifera JURAT, in RABENH. Bryoth. n. 749. 



- pumila var. Philippeana MILDE Bry. Siles. 282. LIMPR. op. c. p. 706. 



- fontinaloides var. Philippei LINDB. Muse. Scand. 40. 

 HAB. Usually with the type ; rare. 



4. NECKEBA PENNATA (Z.) 



Autoicous ; in flat glossy yellowish-green cushions. Stems pinnate, 

 with complanate branches ; leaves ovato-lanceolate, longish ovate, acumi- 

 nate, entire, nerveless. Capsule oblong, immersed. (T. CXXI, C.) 



SYN. Sphagnum pennatum undulatum, vagina squamosa DILL. Hist. muse. 250, t. 32, f. 9 (1741) 



\ 0788)' Pl ' 2 Cd ' I3?I 763) ' WEB - Spi - FL G0ett 37 ( ' 778) - R TH 



Hypnum pennatum HALL. Hist. st. Helv. no. 1297, t. 45, f. 2 (1768). GMEL. Syst. nat ii 

 1340 (1790- HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 57 (1795) 



Wtissia pennata SCHRANK Baiers. Fl. ii, 445 (1789). 



Neckera pennata HEDW. Descr. iii, 17, t. 19 (1792), Sp. muse. ioo (1801). SWARTZ Muse. 

 Suec. 70 (1799). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 2 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 23 (1812), Mant 137 

 (1819). WEB. MOHR. Bot. Tasch. 239 (1807). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P II 144 (1816) 

 FUNCK Moost. 52, t. 34 (1821). GREV. Scot. Cr. Fl. ii, 1. 109 (1825). HOOK. TAYL. Muse.' 

 Brit. 2 ed. 135, t. 4 suppl. (1827). HUEBEN. Muse. Germ. 570 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab 60 

 (1838), Epilogo 195 (1869). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 302 (1848). BR. SCH. Bry. Eur 

 fasc. 4445, p. 6, t. i (1850). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 50 (1851). WILS. Bry. Brit. 414, 

 t- 34 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 467 (1860), 2 ed. 565. BERK. Handb. 69 (1863). MILDE 

 Br)-. Siles. 281 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 183 ^1873). JURATZ. Laubm. fl. Oester.-Une. 

 361 (1882). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 184 (1884). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 290, t 82 (1892). Dix. 

 JAMES. Stud. Handb. 360 (1896). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 703 (1895). 



Pilotrichum pennatum BEAUV. Prodr. 83 (1805). 



Cryptopodia pennata ROEHL. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 82 (1813). 



Daltonia pennata WALK.-ARN. Disp. 54 (1825). DUBY Bot. Gall. 553 (1830). 



Neckera Distichia pennata BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 238 (1827). 



Eleutera pennata STUNTZ Bull. Torrey Bot. Club xxvii, 205 (1900). 



Autoicous ; growing in flat yellowish-green glossy cushions, 2 4 in. 

 high. Secondary stems ascending, irregularly pinnate ; branches short 

 spreading complanate. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, somewhat unsymmetric, 

 gradually pointed, the margin inflexed on one side at the base, serrulate in 

 lower half, with 3 5 faint undulations when dry, nerveless or sometimes 

 with two short nerves ; cells above longish rhombic, below narrow and 

 linear, roundish-quadrate at angles. .Perich. bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 



