DicRANACE^.J 147 [Dicranum. 



Mack. F1. hib. P. 2, 24 (1836). De Not. Syll. muse. 212 (1838), Epil. bri. ital. 6ig 



(i86g). ScHKUHR Deutsch. kr. gew. P. II, 88, t. 39 (1847). ^''- Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 



37-40, p. 34, t. 26 (1847). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, s. 3, 145 (1848). C. Muell. 



Synops. i, 359 (1849). WiLS. Bry. brit. 78, t. 18 (1855). Jens. Bry. dan. 92 (1856). 



Schimp. Synops. 89 (i860), 2 ed. 91 (1876). Berk. Handb. br. m. 278, t. 23, f. 7 (1863). 



MiLDE Bry. siles. 70 (1869). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 47 (1873). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest 



53 ('873). JuRATz. Laubm. Oesterr.-ung. 48 (1882). 

 Fuscina scoparia Schrank Baiers. Fl. ii, 452 (1789), Prim. Fl. Salisb. n. 827 (1792). 

 Mnium scop. Gmel. Syst. nat. ii, 1328 (1791). Laich. PI. eur. 476 (1794). With. Bot. 



arr. br. veg. 3 ed. 799 (1796). 

 Cecalyphum scop. P. Beau v. Prodr. 51 (1805) ; Mem. soc. Linn. Par. t. 2, f. 4 (1822). 

 Dicranum Dillenii Tayl. in Ann. mag. nat. hist, xii, 129 (1843), et Bot. zeit. 1843, p. 695. 



Autoicous and dioicous ; in large lax rather rigid tufts, yellowish 

 green above, fuscescent below. Stems 2 — 5 in. high, dichotomous, 

 densely covered with pale or ferruginous tomentum, interrupted by the 

 innovations, which have the leaves longer and more crowded in upper 

 part. Leaves glossy, falcato-secund, rarely straight, the terminal 

 comant, carinate-concave, from an elongated oblong base, lanceolate 

 subulate, sharply serrate at margin ; nerve flattened, narrowing upward 

 and reaching apex, at back sulcate and with 4 ridges, serrated toward 

 apex ; upper cells linear-rectangular, basal longer subvermicular, the 

 angular large, quadrate orange-brown. Seta solitary, red, bracts 

 convolute in a cylinder, outer from a broad base, narrowly lineal, 

 patulous, serrated, inner convolute with a narrow subula from the 

 rounded apex, nerve obsolete; caps, pachydermous, exannulate, 

 cernuous, rarely suberect, cylindraceous, subarcuate, becoming more 

 curved when old, not striate, castaneous or rufescent ; lid convex with 

 a stout rufous subulate beak as long as capsule ; teeth solid, bright red, 

 cleft to middle. 



Male plants distinct, more slender with infl. terminal, or gemmaceous 

 and nidulant in the tomentum below the perichastia, bracts from an 

 ovate base, narrowly linear. 

 Hab. — Shady banks, rocks, stone walls, and heaths ; common. Fr. 7 — 8. 



Var. p. alpestre Huebm. 



More densely tufted, shining fulvous ; stem erect nearly straight, with 



short branches ; leaves denser, broader, straight or slightly secund, erecto- 



appressed, margin and nerve entire or with a few obtuse teeth. 



Syn. — Dicr. scoparium ^ alpestre. Hueben. Muse. germ. 236. De Not. Syll. et Epil. 

 Milde Bry. siles. 70. Juratz. Laubm. Oesterr.-ung. 49. 



Hab. — Subalpine woods ; not common. Innisfallen, KiWamey {Hunt 1864) ! ! 



Var. y. recurvatum (Schultz) Brid. 



Slender, elongated, geniculato-ascending, deep green opake ; leaves sud- 

 denly larger in the coma, falcato-secund, elongated. 



Syn. — Dicranum recurvatum Schultz Fl. Starg. 295. 



Dicr. scoparium var, recurvatum Brid. Sp. muse. 173, Bry. univ. i, 412. Schimp. Synops. 



Hueben. Juratz. 

 Dicr. pallidum Mitt, in litt. 



