DicranacejE.] 124 [Bltndia. 



Autoicous ; densely caespitose, in dwarf rigid tufts ; about ^ in. 

 high, dull 5ello\v-green above, fuscescent below, rigid dichotomous and 

 fastigiate. Leaves crowded, erecto-patent, or slightly falcato-secund 

 above, oblong, subulate, ending in a very short hyaline point, entire, 

 thin-nerved ; cells at base narrow linear-oblong, angular enlarged brown 

 incrassate, upper narrow smaller flexuose. Perich. bracts much larger, 

 sheathing. Capsule immersed, obovate-globose, truncate, gymnosto- 

 mous, pachydermous, pale brown ; calyp. covering only the lid which 

 is orange, depressed, obliquely rostrate, and adnate to the columella. 



Male infl. gemmaceous, at base of fertile branches ; bracts concave, 

 ovate, acuminate. 



Hab. — Crevices of wet mountain rocks ; rare. Fr. 7 — g. 



Summit of Ben Lawers (Hooker 1830) ! ! 



2. BLINDIA ACXTTA {Huds.) Br. Sch. 



Dioicous ; leaves oblongo-lanceolate, linear-subulate, acute. 

 Capsule exserted, pyriform ; with 16 lanceolate entire or perforated 

 teeth. (T. XVII, F.) 



Syn. — Bryum pilosnm, sphagni suhilati facie Dill. Hist. muse. 374, t. 47, f. 34 (1741) et herb. 

 Bryiim vertlcillatum Lightf. F1. Scot, ii, 733 (1777). 

 Bryum acutum Huds. F1. angl. 2 ed. 484 (1778). With. Bot. arr. br. veg. 3 ed. iii, 823 



(1796). Dicks. Herb. sice. fase. 17, n. 20. Hull Br. fl. P. 2, 260 (1799). P. Beauv. 



Prodr. 45 (1805). 



Weissia acuta Hedw. Stirp. cr. iii, 85, t. 35 fi792) ; Sp. muse. 71 (1801). Brid. Muse, 

 rec. II, P. I, 78 (1798); Sp. muse. I, no (1806) ; Mant. 47 (1S19) ; Bry. univ. i, 362 

 (1826). ScHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I, 6g (1811). RoEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 51 (1813) ; Ann. 

 Wett. ges. iii, 112. Wahl. Fl. lapp. 322 (1812). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 48, t. xv. 

 (1818). Gray Nat. arr. br. pl.'i, 732 (1821). Hook. Fl. Scot. P. ^, 131 (1S21) ; Brit. fl. 

 11,24(1833). FuNCK Moost. 14, t. 9 (1821). HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 146(1833). Mack. Fl. 

 hib. P. 2, 16 (1836). De Not. Syll. muse. 230 (1838). 



Weissia rupcstris Hedw. Sp. muse. t. 14. 



Grimmia rupincola Web. Mohr Raise Sehwed. t. 2, f. 3 a — d (1804). 



GWmmm (7fH(a Sm. Fl. brit. iii, 1192 (1S04); Eng. Bot. t. 1644. Turn. Muse. hib. 29 

 (1804). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 145 (1807). Schkuhr D. kr. gew. P. 11,50, t. 26 (1811). 

 Weissia fastigiata Nees Hsch. Bry. germ, ii, t. 35, f. 31 (1831). 



Blindia acuta Br. Sch. Bry. eur. f. 33— 36, p. 3, t. i (1846). C. Muell. Syn. i, 342 (1849). 

 Raben. Deutsch. Kr. fl. ii, s. 3, 133 (1848). WiLS. Bry. brit 58, t. 15 (1855). Schimp. 

 Syn. iig (i860), et 2 ed. 131 (1876). Berk. Handb. br. m. 286, t. 24, f. i (1863). Milde 

 Bry. siles. 88 (1869). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 39 (1S73). Juratz. Laubm. Oesterr.— ung. 

 72 (18S2). 



Scligcria acuta De Not. Epil. bri. ital. 653 (1869). 



Dioicous : laxly casspitose, in compact fragile tufts i — 4 in. high, 

 yellow-gi-een above, olivaceous or black below ; the young stem pale 

 red. Leaves crowded, erecto-patent, the apical sometimes secund, 

 oblongo-lanceolate, linear-subulate, acute, entire, convolute-concave ; 

 angular cells large, orange-brown ; nerve thin, excurrent. Perich. 

 bracts from a broad sheathmg base, suddenly plicato- subulate. Caps, 

 on a short purple seta, pachydermous, pyriform oval, erect, pale brown. 



