DiCRANACE^.] 139 [Dicranoweissia. 



Male infl. gemmaceous, below fern, the bracts concave, ovate, 

 obtuse. 



Hab. — On old wooden fences, tree roots, or sometimes on rocks ; common. 



Fr. 12 — 3. 



The capsule varies in length and occasionally is found rather curved or 

 unsymmetric ; Oncophorus Bruntoni appears to have been confounded with this 

 by the old authors, but is readily distinguished by the different peristome and 

 the denticulate apex of the leaf. 



2. DICEANOWEISSIA CRlSPULA {Hedw.) Lindh. 



Autoicous ; more densely csespitose ; leaves lanceolate-subulate, 

 acute with plane margins, angular cells quadrate, brown ; capsule oval, 

 not annulate. (T. XIX, E.) 



Syn. — Wcissia crispula Hedw. Sp. muse. 68, t. 12, f. i — 6 (1801). Brid. Sp. muse. I, no 

 (1806); Mant. 42 (i8ig) ; Bry. univ. i, 346 (1826). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. I, 75 (1811) 

 RoEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 49 (1813) ; Ann. Wett. ges. iii, 103. Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 46 

 t. 12 (1818). FuNCK Moost. 15, t. 10 (1821). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 731 (1821). Hook. 

 Fl. seot, P. II, 131 (1821) ; Br. Fl. ii, 22 {1833). Duby Bot. gall, ii, 571 (1830). Nees 

 HscH. Bry. germ, ii, P. II, 65, t. 30. f. 15 (1831). Hueben. Muse. germ. 129 (1833) 

 De Not. Syll. 230 (1838) ; Epil. bri. ital. 595 (1869). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 33—36 

 p. 9, t. 3 (1846). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 127 (1848). WiLS. Bry. brit. 48, t, 

 15 (1855)- ScHiMP. Syn. 55 (i860). Berk. Handb. br. m. 293 (1863). Hobk. Syn. br, 

 m. 34 {1873). Husn. Mouss. nord-ouest 43 (1873). 



Grimmia crisp. Sm. Fl. brit. 1192 {1804) ; Eng. Bot. t. 2203. Turn. Muse. bib. 28 (1804) 

 Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 134 (1807). Schkuhr Deutseh. kr. gew. P. II, 53, t. 23 (i8io) 

 VoiT Muse. berb. 30 {1812). Sm. Comp. fl. brit. 181 (1825). 



Weissia cirrhata fl. crispula Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 323 (1812). Hartm. Skand. Fl. 388. 



Weissia falcata Nees Hsch. Bry. germ, ii, P. II, 71, t. 31, f. 16 (1831). 



Blindia crisp. C. Muell. Syn. ii, 584 (1851). 



Dicranoweissia crisp. Lindb. loc. eit, et Muse, scand. 25 (1879). Milde Bry. siles. 49 

 (1869). ScHiMp. Syn. 2 ed. 54 (1876). Juratz. Laubm. oesterr. — ung. ig (1882). 



Ahtoicous ; in densely pulvinate soft yellow-green tufts, dark brown 

 or blackish below, i — 2 in. high. Leaves divergent, generally secund 

 above, crisped when dry, flexuose when moist, from a longer, broad 

 concave base, lanceolate-subulate, quite entire, the margin not revolute ; 

 nerve vanishing in the long acute point ; areolation denser, papillose at 

 back toward apex, basal cells narrow and elongated, angular distinct, 

 brown, quadrate, upper roundish quadrate, chlorophyllose. Perich. 

 bracts sheathing, convolute, pale, oblong obtuse ; caps, on a longer pale 

 seta, erect, leptodermous, at first pale brown and narrowly oblong, 

 afterwards reddish brown, broadly ovate and wrinkled, slightly con- 

 tracted at mouth, exannulate ; lid conico-subulate, oblique, shorter 

 than capsule ; teeth lanceolate, purple, with 10 — 12 joints, papillose, 

 often cleft and paler at point. 



Male infl. gemmaceous, at apex of innov. bracts ovate, obtuse. 

 Hab. — Mountain rocks. Fr. 5 — 7. 



Ben Lawers and Craig Chailleaeh (Hooker) I ! Anglesea (Davies). Pentland hills 

 (Arnott). Snowdon (Wilson) I ! Braemar (Hunt) ! I 



