DicRANACE^.] 94 [Pleuridium. 



PUuridium nitidum Rabenh. Deuts. Kr. Fl. ii, P. 3, 79 (1848). Br. Sch. Br. eur. fasc. 43 

 Suppl. t. I (1850); Synops. 23 (1S60), et 2 ed. 24 (1876). Berk. Handb. Br. m. 298 

 (1863). MiLDE Bry. siles. 132 (1869). De Not. Epil. Bri. ital. 731 (i85g). 



Pleuridium axillare Lindb. in Ofver. Vet. Akad. forh. xx, 407 (1863), et xxi, 584. Falk 

 Beskrifn. ofver Skand. muse, cleist. 20. 



Paroicous ; plants very small, slender, simple or branched, pale 

 glossy green. Leaves and perich. bracts alike, erecto-patent, lanceo- 

 late or lineal-lane, acute, serrulate at apex, channelled, carinate ; cells 

 large, lax, pellucid, linear-rectangular ; nerve slender, vanishing at f 

 length of leaf. Capsule on a short pedicel, small, elliptic-ovate, shortly 

 rostellate, pale brown, often pseudo-lateral with the seta arcuate. 

 Calyptra covering only top of capsule. Spores ferruginous. 



Hab. — Wet clay fields and banks and by dried up pools, not uncommon. 

 Fr. 10 — 2. 



Var. jB. strictuin {Dicks.) 



Plants smaller, very short, lurid green ; leaves and bracts closer, 

 narrower, straight ; capsule nearly spherical. 



Syn. — Phascum strictum Dicks. Cr. fasc. IV, i, t. 10, f. i (1801). Sm. Fl. Brit, iii, 1151; Eng. 

 Bot. t. 2093. Brid. Sp. muse. I, 5 ; Mant. 7 ; Bry. univ. i, 34. Schwaegr. Suppl. I, P. 

 I, II. La Pyl. in Journ. Bot. 1813, p. 281. 



Pleurid. nitidum j8. minimum Rabenh. Deutsch. Kr. Fl. ii, P. 3, 79. 



Phase. nitidumVai j8. strictum Wils. Bry. Br. 35. 



Hab. — Scotland [Dickson.) 



Repeated innovation takes place on the same stem and thus several 

 capsules appear above each other, and being thrust aside by the new growth 

 acquire a lateral or axillar appearance. 



2. PLEURIDIUM SUBULATUM (Huds.) Rabenh. 



Paroicous ; stems short, simple. Perichastial bracts lanceolate- 

 subulate, minutely serrulate, nerve broad, continuous. Capsule 

 roundish-ovate. (T. XIV, C.) 



Syn. — Musctis trichoides minor acaulos, capillaceis foliis, Doody. Ray Synops. 2 ed. app. 324 

 (1696) ; Hist. PI. iii, 39 (1704). 



Sphagnum acaulon trichoides Dill. Cat. Giss. 229 (1719) ; in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 105 (1724) ; 

 Hist. muse. 251, T. 32, f. 10 (1741), et Herb. 



Phascum subulatum Huds. FI. angl. 397 (1762). L. Sp. pl. 2 ed. ii, 1570 (1763). Oeder 

 Fl. Dan. t. 249 (1766). With. Bot. arr. Br. veg. ii, 660 (1776). Curt. Fl. Lond. t. 67 

 (1778). Relh. Fl. Cant. Suppl. 16 (1786). Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 272 (1794). Abbot Fl. 

 bedf. 229 (1798). Hull Br. Fl. P. 2, 251 (1799). Sm. Fl. Brit, iii, 1149 (1804) ; Eng. 

 Bot. t. 2177. Turn. Muse. hib. i (1804). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 64 (1807). 

 Schwaegr. Suppl. I, P. I, 2 (1811). Hook. Tayl. Muse. Brit. p.p. 6, t. 5 (1818) Gray 

 Nat. arr. Br. pl. i, 711 (1821). Hook. Fl. Scot. P. 2, 121 (1821) ; Br. Fl. ii, 3 (1833). 

 Hartm. Skand. Fl. Nees Hornsch. Bry. germ, i, 63, p.p. t. 6, f. 16 (1823). Bruch in 

 Reg. bot. Zeit. 1825, P. I, 279, excl. syn. T. i. Hoeben. Muse. germ. 6, excl. syn. (1833). 

 Br. Schimp. in Mem. see. mus. Strasb. ii, 3, t. A. excl. syn. (1835) ! Bry. eur. i, Mon. 

 15, t. 7 (1837). Mackay Fl. hib. P. 2, 7 (1836). De Not. Syll. muse. n. 403 (1838). 

 Fior. Maz. Bry. rom. 2 ed. i (1841). Wils. Bry. Brit. 35, T. 5 d, excl. syn. (1855). 

 Husn. Mouss. nord-ouest 36 (1873). Hobk. Syn. Br. m. 30 (1873). 



Astomum subulatum Hampe in Reg. bot. zeit. 1837, P. i, p. 285. C. Muell. Synops. i, 

 14 excl. syn. (1849). 



