DiCRANACE^.] 103 ISwartzia, 



Distichium capill. Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 29-30, p. 4, t. i (1846). Rabenh. Deutsch. Kr. 



Fl. ii, S. 3, 118 (1848). C. MuELL. Syn. i, 40 (1849). Wils. Bry. Brit. 104, t. 20 (1855). 



ScHiMP. Synops. 135 (i860), et 2 ed. 146 (1876). Berk. Handb. Br. in. 266 t. 22 f. 7 



(1863). MiLDE Bry. siles. 138 (1869). De Not. Epil. 660 (i86g). Hobk. Syn. Br. m. 



58 (1873)- 

 Leptotrichum capill. Mitt. Muse. Ind. or. 10 (1859). 



Paroicous ; tall, slender, dichotomous, i — 4 in. high ; in dense silky 

 green tufts, ferruginous below, interwoven with rufous tomentum. 

 Leaves from a pale sheathing ovate base, flexuoso-patulous, lanceolate, 

 longly subulate, with a flattened nerve, entire, or with a few teeth at 

 apex ; cells narrow and pellucid at base, oblique and thin walled at the 

 margin where the narrow part begins, rounded-quadrate, chlorophyllose 

 and subpapillose in the subula; perich. bracts two, longly sheathing. 

 Capsule on a firm red seta, twisting to the right when dry, erect or 

 occasionally subcernuous, leptodermous, ovate-oblong or cylindraceous, 

 regular or slightly curved on one side, glossy, rufous ; lid red, conic ; 

 annulus breaking up. Teeth of peristome narrow, pale red, cleft in the 

 divisural line, or with the legs adhering or perforated. Antheridia naked 

 in the axils of the upper leaves with long paraphyses. 



Hab. — Wet crevices of rocks on all our mountains. Miller's dale, Derby- 

 shire (Mr. Holt) ! ! Fr. 5—7. 



Very variable in size according to the locality, sometimes only reaching 

 an inch in height, at others as much as 5 in., the colour also in the older 

 plants becomes of a straw tint. Schimper confidently cites the reference 

 " Mnium capillaceum Linn. Fl. lapp," but the plant does not appear in that 

 work, and in the 2nd ed. of it by Smith (1792), it is entered at p. 333 as 

 " Mnium foliis capillaceis, capsuUs erectiusculis oUongis, operculo conico," 



Var. /?. compacta (Huehen.) 



Plants short, densely tufted, the leaves short and crowded, suberect, 

 capsule short, elliptical. 



Syn. — Didymodon subulatus Schkuhr Deutsch. Kr. Gew. P. II, 65, t. 28 (i8io). Wallr. Fl. 

 cr. germ, i, 182. 



Didym. distichus Brid. Mant. muse. loi ; Bry. univ. i, 507. 



Didym. capillaceus Var. /8. compactas Hueben. Bry. germ. 282. 



Distichium capill. Var. p. bremfolium Br. Sch. Bry. eur. Wils. Bry. brit. 105. Schimp. 

 Synops. De Not. Epil. 



Hab. — Higher mountains in the North. Rocks above Loch-na-Gat, Ben 

 Lawers [Braithwaite 1862.) 



2. SWARTZIA INCLINATA Ehrh. 



Autoicous ; in small dull green tufts ; leaves shorter, narrower, 

 more serrate at point. Capsule ovate, cernuous ; teeth of peristome 

 broader, two-legged. (T. XV, C.) 



