DiCRANACE^.] 104 [Dicranella. 



Syn. — Afzelia inclinata Ehrh. PI. cr. exs. n. 193 (1787). 



Swartzia inclinata Ehrhart. Hedw. Stirp. crypt, ii, 74, t. 27 (1788). Brid. muse, 

 rec. ii, P. I, iig (1798). P. Beauv. Prodr. 90 (1805). 



Bryuminclin. Dicks. PI. crypt, fasc. II, 9 (1790). Laichard. PI. eur. 479 (1794). With. 

 Bot. arr. Br. Veg. 3 ed. iii, 835 (1796). Hull Br. Fl. P. ii, 264 (1799). 



Didymodon inclin. Swartz muse. suae. 28 (1798). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 153 (1807). 



ScHKUHR Deutsch. Kr. Gew. P. II, 64 t. 28 (1810). Wahlene. Fl. lapp. 314 (1812). 



RoEHL. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 55 (1813) ; Ann. Watt. Gesell. iii, ig8. Hook. Tayl. Muse. 



Brit. 65, t: 20 (1818I. Hook. Fl. scot. P. 2, 135 (1821) ; Br. Fl. ii,28 (1833). G^ay Nat. 



arr. Br. pi. i, 742 (1821). Mack. Fl. hibern. P. 2, 17 (1836). Hartm. Sk. Fl. 4 ed. 



379 (1843)- 

 Cynontodium inclin. Hedw. Sp. muse. 58 (1801). 

 Grimmia inclinata Sm. Fl. Brit, iii, 1193 (1804) ; Eng. Bot. t. 1824. 



Cynodontium inclin. Brid. Sp. muse. I, 155 (1806). Schwaegr. Suppl. I, P. I, iii (1811). 

 FuNCK Moost. 20, t. 14 (1821). 



Cynodon inclin. Brid. Mant. muse. 99 (1819) ; Bry. univ. i, 501 (1826). 



Ceratodon inclin. Hueben. Bry. germ. 273 {1833). 



Disiichium inclin. Br. Sch. Bry. aur. fasc. 29-30, p. 5, t. 2 (1846). Rabenh. Deutsch. Kr. 

 Fl. ii, S. 3, 118 (1848). C. Muell. Syn. i, 41 (1849). WiLS. Bry. Brit. 105, t. 20 (1855). 

 ScHiMP. Syn. 136 (i860), et 2 ed. 147 (1876). Berk. Handb. Br. m. 267 (1863). Milde 

 Bry. siles. 139 (1869). De Not. Epil. 661 (1869). Hobk. Syn. Br. m. 58 (1873). 



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



Autoicous ; in small irregular olivaceous-green tufts ; stems \ — i in. 

 high, little branched. Leaves densely crowded, narrower, shorter, 

 minutely serrate at point ; cells longer ; perich. bracts three, longer. 

 Capsule pachydermous, cernuous, ovate, olive colored, when empty 

 brown with a glossy red mouth ; annulus broad ; lid conic, attenuated. 

 Teeth of per. broader, red, cleft into 2 or 3 legs or perforated, jointed. 



Male inil, below the female, bracts i — 3, ovate, concave, subulate. 

 Hab. — Rocks or stony ground in alpine districts ; rare. Fr. 6 — 7. 



Sands of Barrie, Dundee (Don) ! I Tent's moor, Fife (Black 1853) ! I Aberdour, Fife 

 (Howie 1861) ! Ben Lawers and Clova (Fergusson 1868) ! Connemara, Ben Bulben and 

 Ballycastle, Ireland. 



Suhf. 2. DICRANELLEJB. Plants small, scarcely branched; 

 leaves smooth, lanceolate-subulate, cells parenchymatous, without basal 

 angular ones of a different form. Peristome of 16 teeth, dicranoid, the 

 legs filiform, rough. 



5. DICRANELLA Schimp. 



(CoroU. Bry. Eur. 13 (1855). ) 



Small mosses with short slightly branched stems ; leaves from an 

 oval base, abruptly subulate, channelled, with the margin plane and 

 nerve broad, flattened and indistinct below. Capsule when empty 

 plicato-striate, leptodermous, erect or suberect, regular or slightly 

 oblique, the cells of the exothecium irregularly oblong and curved, with 

 flexuose walls. Peristome smaller, thinner, paler and scarcely papillose. 

 (Lindberg.) — Deriv. Diminutive of Dicranum. 



