DiCRANACEiE.] 146 [Dicranum. 



base elongato-rectangular, hyaline and wide next the nerve, the angular 

 colored narrower and incrassate, the upper small narrowly rectangular. 

 Setae 2 — 5 in the same perich. rather short, slender pale often convolute, 

 bracts broad short ovate, suddenly aristate, inner oblong convolute, 

 tipped with the excurrent nerve, innermost Ungulate obtuse, nerveless ; 

 caps, leptodermous, exannulate, cernuous and horizontal, oblong, 

 subarcuate, obsoletely striate, olivaceous green, when old black and 

 strongly incurved, lid with a very long subulate oblique straw-coloured 

 beak, falling with the calyptra, teeth ferruginous red, rather short. 



Male infl. gemmiform, nidulant in the cauline tomentum. 

 Hab. — Banks and rocks in subalpine woods ; not uncommon. Ft. 7 — 8. 



Except Dillenius, Smith and Turner, all the older botanists confounded 

 this with D. scoparium, from which it is readily distinguished by the polysetous 

 inflorescence, although occasionally solitary capsules may be met with. 

 Dr. Taylor erroneously regarded it as the true Br. scoparkim of Linnaeus. 



7. DICRANUM SCOPARIUM (L.) Hedw. 



Dioicous; robust laxly tufted, tomentose. Leaves lanceolate- 

 subulate, secund or falcato-secund, carinate, concave, the margins 

 incurved, serrated above, nerve reaching apex, narrow, with 4 prominent 

 serrated ridges at back in the upper part. Capsule cylindraceous, 

 subarcuate castaneous, lid longly subulate. (T. XXI, A.) 



Syn. — Adiantum auretim medium, foliis tenuissimis, capitulis erectis acutis Bobarti. Ray Synops. 

 St. brit. App. 237 (1690). 



Muscus trichoides minor, foliis oblongis angnstis obscure viridibus in longtim ct prcstenuem 

 mucronem dcsinentibus. Ray Synops. 2 ed. 2g (i6g6). 



Bryum erectis capitulis angustifolium, caule rccUnato. Dill. Cat. Giss. 222 (lyig), et in 

 Ray Synops. 3 ed. 95 (1724). 



Bryum caule inclinato, foliis arreclis subulatis, capitulis erectiusculis. L. Fl. Lapp. 315 



(1737)- 

 Bryum reclinatum, foliis falcatis, scoparum effigie. Dill. Hist. muse. 357, t. 46, f. 16 



A. B. c. E. H. (1741). 



Bryum scoparium L. Sp. plant. 1117 (1753), Syst. nat. ii, 701. Huds. FI. angl. 406 

 (1762). Neck. meth. muse. 224 (1771). With. Bot. arr. br. veg. ii, 673 (1776). Curt. 

 Fl. Lend, i, t. 6g (1778). Lightf. Fl. seot. ii, 721 (1777). Fl. Dan. t. 824, f. i (1780). 

 Relh. Fl. cant. 403 (1785). Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 354 (i7g6). Hoffm. Deutseh. fl. ii, 39 

 (1796). Abbot Fl. bedf. 141 (1798). Hull Br. fl. P. II, 261 (i7gg). 



Hypnum scoparium Weiss Cr. goett. 71 (1770). Scop. Fl. earn. 2 ed. n. 1234 (1772). 

 Web. Spic. fl. goett. 71 (1778). 



Dicranum scop. Hedw. Fund. muse. II, g2, t. 8, f. 41, 42 (1782) ; Sp. muse. 126 (1801). 

 Roth Tent. fl. germ, i, 460 (1788) etiii, 158. Sibth. Fl. oxon. 281 (i7g4). Brid. muse, 

 ree. II, P. I, 155 (i7g8), Sp. muse. I, 172 (1806), Mant. 56 (i8ig), Bry. univ. i, 410 (1826). 

 SWARTZ muse. suec. 34 (i7gg). Roehl. Moosg. D. 318 (1800), Deutseh. fl. iii, 42 

 (1813). Rich, in MiCHX. Fl. bor. amer. ii, 2g7 (1803). Sturm Deutseh. fl. II, 13 (1803). 

 Sm. Fl. brit. 1201 (1804). Turn Muse. hib. 58 (1804). Schultz Fl. starg. 2g4 {1806). 

 Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 173 (1807) excl. syn. Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. I, 162, t. 42 

 (1811). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 336 (1812), Fl. earp. 343 (1814). VoiT Muse, herbip. 39 

 (1812). Mart. Fl. cr. erl. g7 (1817). Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. 57, t. 18 (1818) excl. var. 

 Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 738 (1S21). Hook. Fl. seot. P. 2, 133 (1821), Br. Fl. ii, 41 

 (1833). FuNCK Moost. 27, t. ig (1821). Zenk. Dietr. Muse, thuring. n. 14 (1821). 

 Hueben. Muse. germ. 235 (1833). Hartm. Skand. Fl. Bals. De Not. Bry. mediol. 135 



