DiCRANACE^.J 144 [Dicranum. 



Hab. — Crevices of rocks and stony ground on the higher mountains. 

 Fr. 8—9. 



Ben Lawers, Ben More, Glen Callater and all the Grampian range. Cronkley scars, 

 Teesdale (Black). Falcon clints [R. Barnes 1879) ! ! Skye [Boswell 1873) ! ! Snowdon 

 (Nuttall 1879) ! ! 



The leaves of all the innovations are sometimes so uniformly and sym- 

 metrically curved, as to give the moss a very beautiful aspect. 



4. DICRANUM STARKEI Weber Mohy. 



Autoicous ; resembling last, but taller ; leaves entire, not crisped, 

 with distinct brown angular cells ; caps, oblongo-cylindric, strumose, 

 sulcata when dry, peristome pale red. (T. XX, C.) 



Syn. — Bryum longifolium Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 3, p. 7 (1793). 



Dicranum Starkei Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. i8g and 471 (1807). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. I, 

 191, t. 46 (1811). RoEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 74 (1813). Eng. Bot. t. 2227. Hook. Tayl. 

 Muse. br. 55, 1. 17 (1818). Brid. Mant. 53 (1819). Funck Moost. 3i,t. 21 (1821). Gray 

 Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 736 (1821). Hueben. Bry. germ. 230 {1833). De Not. Syll. 216 

 (1838), Epil. bri. ital. 630 (1869). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 37—40, p. 27, t. 17 {1847). 

 Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, s. 3, 142 (1848). C. Muell. Syn. i, 364 (1849). WiLs. Bry. 

 br. 74, t. 17 (1855). ScHiMP. Synops. 79 (i86o), et 2 ed. 80 {1876). Berk. Handb. br. 

 m. 276 (1863). MiLDE Bry. siles. 63 {1869). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 44 (1873). Juratz. 

 Laubm. Oesterr. — ung. 38 (1882). 



Oncophorus Starkei Brid. Bry. univ. i, 394 (1826). 



Autoicous; in fragile tufts i — 3 in. high, deep or yellow-green above, 

 fuscous below, resembling D. falcatum. Leaves falcato-secund, lanc- 

 subulate, not crisped, entire or with a few minute teeth at apex, all 

 lower cells elongated, narrowly rectangular, upper shorter, the angular 

 very distinct, quadrate, brown, nerve narrow, excurrent. Perich. bracts 

 broad, sheathing, laxly areolate, suddenly subulate ; seta pale red, longer, 

 caps, oblongo-cylindric, gibbous and arcuate, strumose, striate when dry; 

 annulus double, lid conic, with a long oblique beak, peristome pale red. 



Male infl. close to perichastium, inner bracts longly acuminate. 



Hab. — Same localities as D. falcatum. Fr. 8. 



All the Breadalbane and Braemar mountains. Snowdon (Nuttall 1879) ! ! 



Close to D. falcatum, but always distinguishable by the distinct vesicular 

 brown angular cells, the narrower and longer capsule, and the shorter more 

 gradually subulate leaves. 



5. DICRANUM MOLLE Wilson. 

 Autoicous ; taller, casspitose ; leaves erecto-patent, straight, broadly 

 lanceolate-subulate, entire, nerve vanishing at apex ; caps, oblongo- 

 cylindric, curved, substrumose, lid with a short beak. (T. XX, D.) 



Syn. — Dicranum Starkii VaryS. tnoUe WiLS. Bry. br. 74 (1855). 



Dicranum molle Wils. op. c. 75, ut syn. Lindb. Muse, scand. 24 (1879). 



Dicr. glaciale Berggr. in Act. univ. Lund, ii, n. VII, 19, fig. i — 9 (1866). Braithw. in 

 Journ. Bot. 1870, p. 228. 



Dicr. arcticum Schimp. Bry. eur. Suppl. fasc. 3 — 4, t. 3 (i865) ; Synops. 2 ed. 93 (1876). 



