DicRANACE.E.] log \_DicraneUa. 



5. DICRANELLA CERVICTJLATA {Hedw.) Schirnp. 

 Dioicous ; widely csespitose ; leaves lanceolato-subulate, flexuose, 

 patent, with a flattened nerve. Capsule on a yellow seta, cernuous, 

 ovate, gibbous, slightly strumose at neck; lid subulate, rostrate. 

 (T. XVI, A.) 



Syn. — Dicramim cerviculatum Hedw. Stirp. cr. iii, 8g, T. 37, A {1792), Sp. Muse. 149 (1801). 

 SwARTZ Muse. suee. 36 (1798). Brid. Muse. rec. ii, P. I, 180 (1798), Sp. muse. I, 221 

 (i8o5), Mant. 53 (1819). Roehl. Moosg. Deutseh. 379 (1800), Deutsch. Fl. iii, 74 (1813). 

 Sm. Fl. Brit, iii, 1220 (1804) ; Eng. Bot. 1661. Turn. Muse. hib. 64 (1804). P. Beauv. 

 Prodr. 53 (1805). ScHULTZ Fl. Starg. 302 {1806). Web. Mohr Bot. Taseh. 193 (1807). 

 ScHWAEGR. Suppl. I, P. I, 221 (1811). VoiT Muse. herbip. 48 (1812). Hook. Tayl. 

 Muse. Brit. 53, t. 16 (1818). Mart. Fl. cr. Erl. 106 (1817). Funck Moost. 31, t. 22 

 (1821). Gray Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 734 (1821). Hook. Fl. Sect. P. 2, 132 {1821), Br. 

 Fl. ii, 37 (1833). HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 226 (1833). Mack. Fl. hib. P. 2, 22 (1836). 

 Hartm. Skand. Fl. Fl. Dan. t. 2310, f. 1. Rabenh. Deutsch. Kr. Fl. ii, S. 3, 140 (1848). 

 Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fase. 37-40, p. 22, t. 9 (1847). WiLS. Bry. Brit. 72, t. i5 (1855). De 

 Not. Epil. Briol. ital. 634 (1869). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest 50 (1873). Hobk. Syn. 

 Br. m. 42 (1873). 



Bryum cerviculatum Dicks. PI. cr. fase. iii, 7 (1795). With. Bot. arr. Br. veg. 3 ed. iii, 

 813 (1796). Abbot Fl. Bedf. 237 (1798). Hull Br. Fl. P. 2, 257 (1799). 



Bryum uncinatum Dicks. Op. t. iv, 11, t. 11, f. 8 (1801). 



Dicranum uncinatum Sm. Fl. Br. 1207. Eng. Bot. t. 2261. Brid. Sp. muse. 224. 



Dicranum flavidum Web. Mohr Reis. Sehwed. 128 (1804). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. I, 192, 

 t. 44 (1811). Eng. Bot. t. 2261. 



Oncophorus cervic. Brid. Bry. un. i, 391 (1826). 



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Angstroemia cervic. C. Muell. Synops. i, 430 (1849). 



Dicranella cervic. Schimp. Coroll. 13 (1855), Synops. 72 (i860) et 2 ed. 73 (1876). Berk. 

 Handb. Br. m. 282 (1863). Milde Bry. Siles. 58 (1869). 



Dioicous; in dense, widely extended, yellowish green patches ; leaves 

 semivaginant at base, flexuoso-patent or secund, lanceolate-subulate, 

 concave, entire, glossy ; nerve flattened, dilated at base ; cells elongated 

 hexagono-rectangular. Capsule on a yellow seta, cernuous, ovate, 

 gibbous, with a short slightly strumose neck, not striate, yellow-brown, 

 when old fuscous; annulus of a single row of cells; lid long as capsule, 

 conoid, rostrate ; teeth of peristome dull red. 



Male plant smaller, bracts ovate, concave at base, linear-subulate. 

 Hab. — Wet heaths and sides of ditches ; frequent. Fr. 6 — 7. 



Var. y8. pusilla {Hedw.) Schimp. 



Stems short, simple, leaves smaller, suberect ; capsule smaller, less 

 gibbous. 



Syn. — Dicranum pusillum Hevw. Stirp. ii, 80, t. 29, f. 13. Sp. muse. 139. Schrad. Sp. Fl. 

 germ. 91. Brid. op. cit. Swartz op. c. 38. Schwaegr. op. c. 193. Sm. Fl. Br. 

 1219 ; Eng. Bot. t. 2491. 



Bryum parvulum Dicks. PI. cr. fase. 3, p. 7. Hoffm. Deutsch. Fl. ii, 34. With. Hull. 



Dicran. cerviculatum Var. pusillum Web. Mohr Tasch. 193. Hook. Tayl. Wils. 

 Hueben. 



Oncophorus pusillus Brid. Bry. univ. i, 390. 



Dicranella cervic. Var. yS. pusilla Schimp. 1. c. 



Hab. — In similar localities as the type and sometimes intermixed with it. 



This species is readily known by the neat roundish capsules, strumose 

 at base, and is attached to bare spots where- peat has been cut. 



