DiCRANACEiE.] 112 [Anisothectum. 



Dicranum callistomum Sm. F1. Brit, iii, 1211. Turn. Muse. hib. 63. Brid. Sp. muse. 

 I, 187. 



Dicran. rlgiduhmi P- callistomum Brid. Mant. 61 ; Bry. univ. i, 434. 



Dicranella varia var. ?. callistoma Schimp. Syn. 73. 



Hab. — On rocks in subalpine districts. 



Scotland (Dickson). Anglesea (Davies). Near Derry and Colin Glen {Scott 1802). 



This species is very variable in size and tint, and several forms may be 

 found growing together in one tuft. 



2. AUISOTHECITJM: RITFESCENS {Dkhs.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; simple, rufescent ; leaves secund, lineal-lanceolate, 

 remotely toothed, laxly areolate; nerve strong, vanishing at apex. 

 Capsule erect, ovate ; lid widely conic, acutely pointed. (T. XVI, C.) 



SYT^.—Bryum rufescens Dicks. PI. crypt, fasc. 3, p. 6, t. 8, f. i (1795). With. Bot. arr. Br. veg. 

 3 ed. iii, 818 (1796). Hull Br. Fl. P. 2, 258 (1799). Brid. Muse. rec. ii, P. Ill, 

 55 (1803). 

 Dicranum rufescens Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 1216 (1804), FI. Brit, iii, 1210 (1804). Turn. muse, 

 hib. 66 (1804). Brid. Sp. muse. I, 188 {1806), Bry. univ. i, 437 (1826). Swartz in 

 Schrad. Bot. Journ. iv. 173 (1801). Mart. Fl. er. Erl. 85 (1817). Hueben. Muse, 

 germ. 264 (1833). De Not. Syllab. n. 296 (1838). Rabenh. Deutseh. Kr. Fl. ii, S. 3, 

 140 (1848). Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fasc. 37-40, p. 22, t. 12 (1847). Wils. Bry. Brit. 71, 

 t. 12 (1855). HoBK. Syn. Br. m. 43 (1873). Husn. Mouss. nord-ouest 50 (1873). 



Dicranum carneum Blandow in Sturm Deutseh. Fl. 2, n. 10. 



Dicranum varium ;8. rufescens. Roehl. Deutseh. Fl. iii, 71 {1813). Hook. Tayl. Muse. 



Br. 58, t. 17, fig. med. (1818). Brid. Mant. 62 (1819). Gray Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 738 



{1821). Hook. Fl. Scot. P. 2, 134 (1821) ; Br. Fl. ii, 42 (1833). 



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Angstroemia rufesc. C. Muell. Synops. i, 436 (1849). 



Dicranella rufesc. Schimp. CoroU. 13 (1855), Synops. 74 {i860), et 2 ed. 75 (1876). Berk. 

 Handb. Br. m. 283 (1863). Milde Bry. Siles. 60 (1869). De Not. Epil. Bri. ital. 

 639 (1869). 



Dioicous; rufescent, densely gregarious or csespitulose, slender, 

 simple, erect ; leaves less crowded, subfalcato-secund, lineal-lanceolate, 

 remotely toothed; nerve strong, subterete at base, flattened above, 

 vanishing in apex ; cells lax, elongated, rectangular. Seta red. Capsule 

 erect or inclined, very small, ovato-elliptic, rufous ; annulus none ; lid 

 broadly conic, acutely apiculate. Peristome large, red. Male plant 

 slender, inflor. terminal, antheridia numerous, orange, bracts ovate, 

 subulate. 



Hab. — Wet clay banks and stony ground ; not rare. Fr. 9 — 11. 



Scotland (Dickson). Killarney, Lough Bray and Kelly's Glen, Ireland. Henfield and 

 Blaekdown, Sussex (Borrer 1826) ! Hurstpierpoint (Mitten 1847) ' Blackburn, Prestwich 

 Clough and Ashley (Hunt) ! ! Coekmill Wood, Whitby (Braithwaite 1850) ! ! Quirang, 

 Skye (Hunt) ! Banchory (Sim). Hampstead canal bank, Stafford (Bagnall 1870). 



Readily known from A . nibmm by turning pale vinous red in drying ; 

 the male infl. is so conspicuous, that when growing alone it has the aspect 

 of a Phascum in fruit. 



