DiCRANACE^.J 142 [Dicranum. 



subulate, entire. Caps, erect, ovate, furrowed when dry ; peristome 

 large, spreading. (T. XIX, G.) 



Syn. — Bryumfulvelhim Dicks. Cr. brit. fasc. IV, 10, t. 11, f. i (1801). 



Dicranum fulvellum Sm. F1. br. iii, i2og (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 2268. Grev. Scot. cr. fl. t. 

 188 (1825). Brid. Bry. univ. i, 813 (1826). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 2 ed. 103, Suppl. t. 

 3 (1827). Hook. Br Fl. ii, 43 {1833). Mack. Fl. hib. P. 2, 24 (1836). C. Muell. 

 Synops. i, 371 (1849). Milde Bry. siles. 62 (i86g). De Not. Epil. bri. it. 632 (i86g). 

 ScHiMP. Synops. 77 (i860) et 2 ed. 78 (1876). Juratz. Laubm. Oesterr. — ung. 37 (1882). 



Grimmia schisii Sm. Fl. br, iii, 1185. Eng. Bot. t. 1952. 



Dicr. rupestre Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 185 & 469 (1807). 



Dicr. Seligeri Brid. Mant. 59 (1819) ; Bry. univ. i, 429. 



Dicr. Moerchii Hornsch. in Flora viii, P. I, 78 (1825). 



Weissia Jlexuosa Nees Hornsch. Bry. germ, ii, P. H, 121, t. 35 (1831). 



Arctoa fulvella Br. Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 33 — 6, p. 4, t. i (1846). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. 

 a. ii, S. 3, 151 (1848). WiLS. Bry. br. 59, t. 33 (1855). Hartm. Skand. fl. g ed. 71 

 (1864). Berk. Handb. br. m. 286, t. 23, f. 10 (1863). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 39 (1873). 



Autoicous ; densely casspitose, h — 2 in. high, dull green or yellowish 

 above, blackish brown below. Leaves dense, secund, the upper often 

 falcate, lane. -subulate, glossy, entire or slightly denticulate at apex ; 

 angular cells lax, few, flat, the rest very narrow oblong. Perich. bracts 

 from an oblong sheathing base, subulate. Caps, slightly exserted on a 

 reddish-brown seta, erect, oval with a tapering neck, or subcernuous 

 and slightly asymmetric, ferruginous, 8 — ^striate when dry ; lid red, 

 obliquely conico-subulate ; annulus large ; teeth red, spreading 

 horizontally when dry, narrowly lanceolate-subulate, bifid or perforated. 



Male infl. gemmiform, below the perichaetium, bracts ovate 



acuminate. 



Hab. — Crevices of rocks on the higher mountains. Fr. 7. 



Ben More (^Dickson). Ben Nevis (Borrer). Ben Lav^ers {Greville) I ! Clova [Drum- 

 mond) ! ! Snowdon (Taylor) ! ! Llanberis (Hunt) ! ! Cronkley Scarr, Teesdale 

 (Spruce) ! Striding edge. Great Gable and Scawfell Pikes (Baker 1867) ! ! Arncliff 

 wood, Whitby (Rev. y. F. Crouch) ! ! 



The foliage much resembles that of Blindia acuta, with which it was 

 confounded, but the angular cells are different and the fruit quite distinct. 



2. DICRANUM SCHISTI {Gum.) Lindb. 



Autoicous; in soft dull green tufts. Leaves lanc.-subulate, entire, 

 flexuose, pellucid with fuscous ang. cells. Caps, ovate, smooth, 

 strumose. (T. XX, A.) 



Syn. — Bryumfol. sctaceis curvatls, caps, crectis, obtuse ovatis, capitcllo oblique rostrate, apophysi 

 capitulo subjecta Oeder Fl. dan. t. 538, n 2 (1770). 



Bryum schisti Gunn. Fl. norveg. P. II, 138 (1772). 



Dicranum Blyttii Br. Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 37 — 40, p. 26, t. 16 (1847). Rabenh. 

 Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, s. 3, 142 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. i, 364 (1849). WiLS. Bry. br. 

 74, t. 39 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 80 (i860), 2 ed. 81 (1876). Berk. Handb. br. m. 277 

 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 64 {i86g). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 45 (1873). Juratz. Laubra. 

 Oesterr. — ung. 39 (1882). 



Dicr. schisti Lindb. Act. See. scien. fenn. X, 11 (1871), Muse, scand. 24 (1879). 



