PoLYTRicHACEiE.] 39 [Cathai'inea. 



part ; lamellae 5 — y, much higher, and occupying most of the apex of 



leaf, in section each of 4 — 6 small rounded cells. Capsule on a 



purple seta, erect or a little inclined, straight or subarcuate, narrowly 



cylindric, purple red ; calyptra very narrow, spinulose at point ; lid 



dark purple, glossy, with a shorter beak ; teeth of peristome narrower. 



Male plants in separate tufts ; infl. cup-shaped, inner bracts broadly 



obovate with the nerve thickened at apex. 



Hab. — Clay and sandy soil in shady places. Very rare. Fr. 11 — i. 



Wet sand banks at Hassocks, near Hurstpierpoint, <? and fr. {Mitten 1846) ! ! Steep 

 stony pastures near Doune, Perthshire, u. fr. [McKinlay 1864) ! 



Readily known from C. undulata by its slender habit, olive-green tint, 

 and shorter, blunt-pointed leaves, which are more minutely areolate. Much 

 more frequent in America than in Europe. 



2. CATHARINEA UNDULATA (L.) Web. Mohr. 

 Paroicous. Leaves increasing in size upward, lingulato-lanceolate, 

 undulate in the upper half, acute, margin narrowly bordered and dentate 

 nearly to base; lamellae 2 — 5, low. Capsule cylindric, arcuate; lid 

 long-beaked. (T. V, B.) 



Syn. — Adiantum sen Polytrichum aureum medium Ray Hist. PI. i, 124 (1686), et Syn. Stirp. 



Brit. I ed. ig (i6go). 

 Muscus capillaris majtisculus, foliis longis cum aliqua latitudiiic, viridibus, acutis rugosis 



Ray Syn. 2 ed. 29, n. 6 (1696). Moris. Hist. pi. Oxon. iii, 631, t. V, f. 10 (1698). 

 Bryum erectum, capituUs oblongis, rubentibus, foliis oblongis, angustis pellucidis rugosis 



Dill. Cat. Giss. 222 (1719), et in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 95, n. 15 (1724). 

 Bryum PhylUtidis folio rugose actito, capsulis incurvis Dill. Hist. muse. 360, u. 18 ; t. 46, 



f. 18 (1741) et Herb. 

 Bryum undulatum L. Sp. PI. ii, 117, n. 10 (i753)> et Syst. nat. ii, 701. Hubs. F1. angl. 



406 (1762). Oeder F1. Dan. t. 477. Weiss Cr. Gott. 196 {1770). Wither. Bot. arr. 



Br. Veg. ii. 673 (1776). Lightf. F1. Scot, ii, 722 (i777)- Curt. F1. Lond. i, t. 70 



(1778). Web. Spic. Fl. gott. 171 (1778). Relh. F1. cant. 404 (1785). Hoffm. 



Deutsch. Fl. ii. 40, t. i (1796). Abbott Fl. bedf 243 (1798). Hull Br. Fl. 



P. 2, 265 {1799). 

 Bryum phyllitidifoUum Neck. Meth. muse. 203 (1771). 

 Catharinea Callibryon Ehrh. in Hann. Mag. 1780, p. 934, et Beitr. i, 126 (1787). 



C. MuELL. Syn. muse, i, 192 (1849). 

 Milium undulatum Swartz Meth. muse. 27 (1781). L. fil. Meth. muse. 364 (1787). 

 Polytrichum undulatum Hedw. Fund, ii, go (1782) ; Stirp. cr. i, 43, T. xvi.xvii (1787) ; 



Sp. muse. g8 (1801). Willd. Fl. berol. n. 915 (1787). Roth Fl. germ, i, 458, et 111, 



354(1788). TiMM Fl. meg. n. 773 (1788). Schrank Baier. Fl. ii, 448 (1789). Brid. 



Muse. rec. ii, P. I, 92 (1792); Sp. muse. I, 78 (1806). Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 307 (i794)- 



Moench PI. marb. 736 (1794). Swartz Muse. suae. 78 (1798). Rohl. Moosg. Deuts. 



201 (1800). Rich, in Mchx. Fl. bor. amer. ii, 295 (1803). Sturm Deutsch. Fl. 11, 2 



{1803). Smith Fl. Brit, iii, 1382 (1804) ; Eng. Bot. t. 1220 (1803). Turn. Muse. hib. 



gi (1804). Schultz Fl. starg. 287 (i8o6). Schwaegr. Suppl. I, P. 2, 300 (1816). 



Mart. Fl. er. erl. 79 {1817). Hook. Tayl. Muse. Br. 23, T. X (1818). Gray Nat. arr. 



Br. pi. i, 719 (1821). Hook. Fl, Scot. P. 2, 125 (1821) ; Brit. Fl. ii, 48 {1833). Funck 



Moostasch. 70, t. 57 {1821). Wahlen. Fl. suec. 741 (1826). Wallr. Fl. cr. germ. 1, 



195 {1831), Mackay Fl. hib. P. 2, 27 (1836). De Not. Syll. muse. n. 214 (1838). 



FiOR. Maz. Bry. rom. 2 ed. 28 (1841). 

 Callibryum polytrichoides Wibel Prim. ?i. Werth. 290 (1799). 

 Catharinea undulata Web. Mohr Ind. mus. pi. cr. (1803); Bot. Tasch. 216 {1807). 



Rohl. Ann. Wett. Ges. iii, 233 (1814) ; Deutsch. Fl. iii, 61 (1813). Brid. Mant. muse. 



304 (1819) ; Bry. univ. ii, 102 (1827). Hueben. Muse. germ. 517 (1833). Rabenh. 



Deutsch. Kr. Fl. ii, P. 3, 233 (1848). Lindb. in Not. ur Sallsk. Fn. et Fl. fenn. ix, 



146 (1867). 



