DiCRANACE^.] 155 [Dicranum. 



lapp. 337 (1812), Fl. carp. 345 (1814). Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 68 (1813). Funck Moost. 

 29, t. 20 (1821). HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 252 (1833), excl. syn. Hartm. Skand. fl. Br. 

 ScHiMP. Bry. eur. fasc. 37-40, p. 29, t. 20 (1847), ''• Muell. Synops. {,379 (1849). 

 ScHiMP. Synops. 81 (i860), 2 ed. 82 (1876). De Not. Epil. bri. ital, 628 (1869). Milde 

 Bry. siles. 64 (i86g). HusN. mouss. nord.ouest 52 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. Oesterr. 

 ung. 41 (18S2). 



Weissia truncicola De Not. Epil. 598 {1869). 



Dioicous ; densely pulvinate-csespitose, interwoven with ferruginous 

 tomentum, deep green above, pale ferruginous below, i — i in. high. 

 Leaves soft, patent and subsecund, strongly curled when dry, lanceolate- 

 subulate, subtubulose in upper part, opake, papillose at back ; margin 

 crenulato-denticulate and incurved in upper half, nerve lost at apex, 

 bluntly toothed at back, i — } width of base, cells at base lax and 

 elongate, the angular few thin, in 5 rows, upper minute quadrate. 

 Perich. bracts longly sheathing, suddenly subulate ; caps, on a pale brown 

 seta, leptodermous, oblong, subcylindric, slightly curved, pale brown, 

 lid paler, conical, rostrate, long as capsule, teeth bright red, narrow, 

 arcuato-incurved. 



Male pi. slender, bracts from an ovate base, acuminate subulate. 

 Hab. — About roots and trunks of trees in woods ; rare and sterile. Fr. 7 — 8. 



At base of oaks, Sutton Park, Birmingham (Bagnall 1870) ! ! Abbey wood and Bostol 

 wood, Kent (j/oteies 1874)!! Corley woods, Coventry; Crackley wood, Kenilworth; 

 Boultbie wood and woods at Meridan shafts, Fillongley; Shrawberry wood, Shustoke ; 

 Harding's wood and Birchmoor stumps, Maxtoke, and on alder at Brown's wood, 

 Solihull (Bagnall 1881) ! ! Aspley woods, Luton, with D. scoparium (Saunders 1882) ! ! 

 Den of Airlie, Forfar (Sim 1876) ! ! 



Although much resembling D. flagellare, this is at once distinguished by 

 its denser deep green tufts, strongly curled leaves, papillose at back, with 

 margins more extensively serrulate and less incurved. 



15. DICRANUM FLAGELLARE Hedw. 



Dioicous ; densely tufted, usually producing fragile axillar small 

 leaved ramuli ; leaves lane, subulate, concave, subsecund, smooth at 

 back, nerved to apex, denticulate at point ; caps, long, cylindric, striate, 

 lid with a long oblique beak. (T. XXIII, C.) 



Syn. — Dicranum flagellare Hedw. Muse. fr. iii, i, t. i, f. i (1792), Sp. muse. 130 (1801). 

 ScHRAD. Spie. fl. germ. 59 (1794). Roth Fl. germ, iii, 165 (1795). Brid. Muse. rec. 

 11, P. I, 160 {1798), Sp. muse. I, 178 (i8o6). Mant. 58 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 422 {1826). 

 Roehl. Moosg. deutsch. 328 (1800), Deutsch. fl. iii, 65 (1813). P. Beauv. Prodr. 63 

 (1805). ScHULTZ Fl. starg. 297 (i8o5) Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 173 (1807). Schwaeg. 

 Suppl. I, P. I, 176 (1811). VoiT Muse. herb. 41 (1812). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 337 (1812). 

 Mart. Fl. cr. erl, loi (1817). Funck Moost. 29, t. 20 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 

 250 (1833). Hartm. Skand. Fl. Mackay Fl. hibern. P. 2, 23 (1836), Br. Sch. Bry. 

 eur. fasc. 37-40, p. 30, t. 21 (1847). ^- Muell, Synops. i, 381 (1849). Jens. Bry. dan. 

 92 (1856). ScHiMP. Synops. 82 (i860), 2 ed. 84 (1876). Milde Bry. siles. 65 (1869). 

 Husn. mouss. nord-ouest 52 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. Oesterr-ung. 41 (1882). Holmes 

 in Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 225, t. 149. 



Bryum flagellare Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 37 (1796). 



Dioicous ; densely tufted, repeatedly dichotomous, i — 2 in. high, 

 deep or yellow-green above, rufescent below, interwoven with radicles ; 



