NECKERACE*.] 208 \CKmadum. 



CLIMACIUM DENDROIDES (L.) Web. Mohr. 



Dioicous ; leaves divergent, ovato-lanceolate, serrulate at apex, bisul- 

 cate, decurrent at angles, nerved ; cells very narrow. Capsules numerous, 

 erect, oblong, castaneous ; lid rostrate, systilious, peristome rufous, in- 

 curved when dry. (T. CXXI, D.) 



SYN Muscus dendroides elaiior ramulis crebris minus surculosis, capitulis pediculis brevibus in- 



sidentibus RAY Synops. 2 ed. 32, n. 23 (1696). 

 Hypnum ertctum arbusculam referens, ramulis subrotundis confertim nascentibus DILL, in 



RAY Synops. 3 ed. 81, no. 9 (1724)- 

 Hypnum dendroides sericeum, setis et capsulis longioribus erectis DILL. Hist muse. 313, 



t. 40, f. 48 (1741) et Herb. 



Hypnum dendroides L Sp. plant. 1128 (1753)- HuDS - Fl. Angl. 426 (1762). OEDER Fl. 

 Dan. t. 823 (1780). WEISS Crypt. Goett. 245 (1770). NECK. Meth. muse. 187 (1771). 

 WITHER. Bot. arrang. ii, 687 (1776). LIGHTF. Fl. Scot, ii, 756 (1777). WEBER Spic. 

 Fl Goett. 74 (1778). RELH. Fl. cant. 413 (1785). HOFFM. Deut&ch. Fl. ii, 70 (1795). 

 SM. Fl. Brit. 1283 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1565. TURN. Muse. Hib. 138 (1804). P. BEAUV. 

 Prodr. 63 (1805). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. Brit. 101 (1818). GRAY Nat. arr. i, 758 (1821). 



Ntcktra dendroides TIMM. Prod. FL megap. 221 (1788). ROTH Fl. Germ, i, 462 (1788). 

 SWARTZ Muse. Suec. 69 (1799). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 15 (1801). SCHULTZ Fl. 

 Starg. 307 (1806). C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 121 (1851). 



Leskta dendroides HEDW. Sp. muse. 228 (l8oi). LAM. & CAND. Fl. Franc, i, 516 (1805). 

 WAHLENB. Fl. Suec. ii, 714 (1826). DE NOT. Syllab. 62 (1838). 



Climacium dendroides WEB. MOHR Reis. in Schwed. 96 (1804), Bot. Tasch. 252 (1807). 

 WAHLENB. Fl. Lapp. 370 (1812), Fl. Carp. 357 (1814). ROEHL. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 84 

 (1813). BRID. Sp. muse. II, 44 (1812), Mant. 142 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 271 (1827). 

 SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 141, t. 81 (1816). FUNCK Moost. 52, t. 33 (1821). HUEBEN. 

 Muse. germ. 595 (1833). BR. SCH. Bry. Eur. fasc. 16, p. 5 (1842). RABENH. D. kr. 

 fl. II, S. 3, 257 (1848). WILS. Bry. Brit. 325 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 517 (l86o) r 

 2 ed. 627. BERK. Handb. 140, t. 13 (1863). MILDE Bry. Siles. 289 (1869). DE NOT. 

 Epilogo 201 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 142 (1873). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 153 (1884). 

 HUSNOT Muse. Gall. 315, t. 90 (1892). LIMPR. in RAB. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 34, f. 35$ 

 (1896). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handlx 388 (1896). 



Dioicous ; plants associated, but detached from each other, bright 

 yellowish-green, slightly glossy; main stem subterranean, rhizomatoid, 

 radiculose, secondary stems erect, reddish, the leaves squamose, erect and 

 appressed, the branches crowded at the top, mostly simple, rigid and 

 divergent. Upper leaves crowded, erecto-patent, lingulate, coarsely serrate 

 at apex, biplicate, nerve vanishing below apex ; cells narrow and rhombic 

 above, lineal below, expanded and rhombic at angles. Perich. bracts erect, 

 ovate with long acute points, entire with a short nerve ; seta long, purple,, 

 capsule erect, cylindraceous, castaneous ; calyptra long, enclosing all 

 capsule, lid half length of capsule, convex rostrate, united to columella 

 when cast off. Peristome of 16 papillose teeth united at base, lanceolate, 

 rufous ; endostome a very narrow basal membrane with 16 orange lineal 

 processes as long as the teeth, cleft in the middle nearly all the length, 

 without cilia. 



HAB. Wet places in fields and moorlands, frequent. Fr. 1 12. 



