DiCRANACE^.] 138 [Dicranoweissia. 



I. DICRANOWEISSIA CIRRATA (L.) Lindb. 

 Autoicous ; laxly pulvinate, dichotomous ; leaves lanceolate, rather 

 obtuse with revolute margins, angular cells indistinct ; capsule sub- 

 cylindric, annulate. (T. XIX, F.) 



Syn. — Brytmi trichoides exile, erectis capitulis in pedieulis longioribus rubris Dill. Cat. Giss. 

 224 (1719), et in Ray Syn. 3 ed. 97, n. 25 (1724). 

 Bryum cirratmn et stellatum,tenuioribus foliis Dill. Hist. muse. 379, t. 48, f. 42 (1741). 



Mnium cirratum L. Sp. pi. iiii (1753) ; Syst. Veg. 946. Oeder F1. dan. t. 538, f. 4 

 (1770). Poll. PI. palat. ii. 986, f. 9 (1777). With. Bot. arr. br. veg. ii, 666 (1776). 

 Hull Br. fl. P. II, 250 (1799). 



Bryum cirr. HuDS. Fl. angl. 409 {1762) ; Neck. Meth. muse. 213 (1771). Lightf. Fl. 

 seot. ii, 728 (1776). HoFFM. Deutsch. H. ii, 54 (1796). Abbot Fl. Bedf. 238 (1798). 



Hypnum cirr. Weiss Cr. Gott. 207 (1770). 



Leersia cirr. Willd. Pr. fl. berol. n. 902 (1787). Roth Tent. Fl. germ i, 455 (1788). 



Dicranum cirr. Timm Fl. megap. n. 783 (1788). 



Gymnostomum cirr. ScHRANK_Baiers. Fl. ii, 436 (1789). 



Afzelia cirr. Ehrh. PI. crypt, n. 232 (1790). 



Encalypta cirr. Swartz Muse. suec. 25 {1799). 



Weissia Dicksoni Willd. op. c. u. 907. Roth op. c. 456. Hoffm. op. c. 32. Brid. 



Muse. ree. II, P. I, 72 (1798). 

 Grimmia Dicks. Roth op. c. iii, P. I, 143 {1793). Sm. Fl. brit. 1188 (1804) ; Eng. bot. 



t. 1420. Turn. Muse. hib. 27 (1804). 

 Barbula cirr. Brid. op. e. 203. Roehl. Moosg. deutsch. 230 (1800). P. Beauv. Prodr. 



92 (1805). 

 Grimmia cirr. Schrad. Journ. bot. 1799, II, 58. Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 134 (1807). 



ScHKUHR Deutsch. Kr. gew. P. II, 54, t. 27 (1810). Sm. Comp. fl. brit. 181 (1825). 



Weissia cirr. Hedw. Sp. muse. 69, t. 12, f. 7 — 12 (1801). Brid. Sp. muse. I, log (1806) ; 

 Mant. 41 (1819) ; Bryuniv. i, 343 (1826). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. 1,75 (1811). Wahlenb. 

 Fl. lap. 303 (1812) ; Fl. carp. 340 (1814). Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 49 (1813) ; Ann. wett. 

 ges. iii, 104. Mart. Fl. er. erl. iii (1817). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 46, t. 15 (1818). 

 Schultz Fl. starg. suppl. 67 (1819). Funck Moost. 15, t. 10 (1821). Gray Nat. arr. 

 br. pi. i, 731 (1821). Hook. Fl. seot. P. II, 130 (1821); Br. Fl. ii, 21 (1833). Nees 

 Hornsch. Bry. germ, ii, P. II, 61, t. 29, f. 14 (1831). Hueben. muse. germ. 127 (1833). 

 Mack. Fl. hib. P. 2, p. 14 (1836). De Not. Syll. 232 (1838) ; Epil. bri. ital. 596 (1869). 

 Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fase. 33 — 36 p. g,t. 6 (1846). WiLS. Bry. br. 47, t. 15 (1855). Rabenh. 

 Deutsch. Kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 127 (1848). Jens. Bry. dan. 120 (1856). Schimp. Synops. 56 

 (i85o). Berk. Handb. br. ra. 292 (1863). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 34 (1873). HusN. Mouss. 

 nord-ouest 43 (1873). 



Blindia cirr. C. Muell. Syn. 11,585 (1851). 



Dicranoweissia cirr. Lindb. loe. cit. et Muse, scand. 25 (1879). Milde Bry. 

 siles. 49 (1869). Schimp. Syn. 2 ed. 55 (1876). Juratz. Laubm. oesterr. — ung. 21 

 (1882). 



Autoicous ; laxly pulvinate, soft, dull or yellowish green above, 



brown or blackish below; stems flaccid, dichotomous, slightly 



radiculose, i — i in. high. Leaves curled, patulous, from a longish 



concave base, gradually lineal-lanceolate, rather obtuse, smooth, entire, 



revolute at margin ; nerve vanishing just below apex ; cells at base 



transp. rectangular, above incrassate roundish quadrate, at angles less 



distinct, lax quadrate. Perich. bracts shorter, broader, sheathing, 



nerve thin ; caps, on a pale seta, erect, subcylindraceous, leptodermous, 



pale brown with a red mouth, annulus of 2 — 3 rows of cells ; lid pale red 



shorter than caps, subulate, slightly oblique ; teeth lanceolate, undivided, 



purple below, finely papillose and pale above, inserted below the mouth. 



