NECKERACE^] 218 \Crypha>a. 



Syllab. 79 (1838), Epilogo 221 (1869). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 301 (1848). BR. SCH. 

 Bry. Eur. fasc. 4445 (1850). WILS. Bry. Brit. 313, t. 20 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 

 475 (1860), 2 ed. 574. BERK. Handb. 150, t. 13 (1863). MILDE Bry. Siles. 285 (1869). 

 HOBK. Synops. 139 (1873). JVRATZ. Laubm. Oest-Ung. 368 (1882). LESQ. JAMES Moss. 

 N. Amer. 288 (1884). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 179 (1884). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 293, t. 83 

 (1892). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 366 (1896). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. 

 ii, 684, f. 330 (1894). 

 Ntcktra (EuUucodon) scittroides C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 107 (1850). 



Dioicous ; growing in lax dingy green tufts. Secondary stems ascend- 

 ing, incurved when dry, simple or with a few branches. Leaves densely 

 crowded, imbricated, spreading, erect when dry, cordate acuminate acute, 

 4 6 plicate, nerveless, entire ; cells incrassate, roundish-quadrate, elongated 

 in the middle. Perichaetial bracts long and sheathing, not plicate ; seta 

 reddish, capsule erect, oval-oblong, castaneous ; lid conical, annulus in two 

 rows, calyptra longer than capsule ; teeth of peristome pale erect, lineal- 

 lanceolate, cleft in the median line, papillose, with compartments internally, 

 endostome abortive. 



HAB. Trunks of trees, rocks and walls, not uncommon. Fr. n, rare. 



Walls at Gaythorne Hall, Westmoreland c. fr. (Stabler 1872) ! ! New Forest (Lyell). 

 Henfield (Borrer). Wharfedale (Novell). 



Var. (3. Morensis (Sckwaeg.) De Not. Syllab. 79. 



Larger and more robust, leaves larger, denser, and more elongated ; capsule 

 larger, cylindric, endostome more developed. 



n morensis SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, p. 2, et II, P. I, p. 82, t. 125. BRJD. Bry. 

 univ. ii, 210. WILSON, SCHIMPER, etc. 



Neckera sciuroides /3. cylindricarpa C MUELL. Synop. ii, 108. 



HAB. Berkshire (Herb. Turner), Dorking (Woods). Craig-an-lochan, Ben Lawers (Waterfall 

 1885) !! Clova (Fergusson). 



9. CRYPH^A Web. Mohr. 



Weber Tab. synopt. muse. (1803). 



Growing on trunks of trees. Stem creeping, the secondary erect and 

 simple. Leaves octofarious, divergent, imbricated when dry, ovate- 

 acuminate, nerved, not plicate ; cells incrassate, round or oval. Capsules 

 on one side, immersed in the elongated perichsetium, ovate; calyptra 

 conico-campanulate, often papillose; lid conic or rostellate ; peristome of 

 16 linear-lanceolate teeth, endostome 16 lanceolate-subulate processes. 

 Der. Kpvtfxuos, concealed. 



Over 80 species are referred to this pretty genus, most of them being tropical. 

 In leaf structure it is closely allied to Hedwigia 



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