DiCRANACEiE.] 170 [Oticophorus. 



rectangular, upper quadrate. Perich. bracts from an oblong sheathing 

 base, longly subulate, seta straight, reddish yellow; caps, erect or 

 cernuous, oblong-ovate, equal, with a short equal neck, deeply sulcate 

 when dry, pale brown, annulus of 3 rows of large cells, lid conoid- 

 rostellate, shorter than caps, crenulate at margin, teeth cleft to middle 

 into 2 unequal legs, red. 



Male infl. gemmiform, at base of perichsetium, bracts few, ovate. 

 Hab. — Clefts of mountain rocks. Fr. 7. 



Ben High (Don). Cader Idris (Ralfs). Bushiel Dene (Hardy). Hambledon Dene 

 (yohnston). Dumyet, Ochills (Wilson 1855) ! ! Ben Chonzie, Perth — Glen Turritt and 

 Glen Esk (Croall 1854). Glen Tilt, Trossachs and Ben Lawers (McKinlay 1861). Craig 

 Maid and Carlowie (Gardiner 1843) ! Castleton, Braemar (Black 1854). Rydal (Borrer 

 1845). Clova (Fergusson) ! ! 



Much confusion has existed between this species and 0. Bruntoni, partly 

 due to Hedwig's figure of O. polycaypus representing the capsule as smooth ; 

 in habit they closely approximate, but the leaves of O. polycarpus are longer, 

 and the longer striated caps, and well developed peristome at once distinguish 

 it. 



Sect. 3. PHEUGODONLwi^J. Caps, leptodermous, regular, not stru- 

 mose, faintly ribbed when dry, peristome small and imperfect. 



6. ONCOPHORUS BRUNTONI {Smith), Lindb. 



Autoicous; pulvinate, fasciculate-leaved. Leaves lineal-lanceolate, 

 remotely denticulate at point, papillose. Capsule erect, oval-oblong, 

 symmetric, smooth ; lid rostrate ; teeth small, irregular, cleft to base, 

 the legs erose or entire. (T. XXVI, A.) 



Syn. — Grimmia cirrata Sm. F1. brit. iii, 1189 {1804), Eng. Bot. t. 2356. 



Dicranum Bruntoni Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 2509 (1812). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 590 (1851). Jens. 

 Bry. dan. 93 (1856). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest. 47 (1873). 



Didymodon obscurus Kaulf. in Sturm Deutsch. il. II, heft. 16, n. 9 (1815). Brid. Mant. 

 103 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 516 (1826). Funck Moost. t. 14 (1821). Schwaeg. Suppl. II, 

 P. I, 80, t. 124 (1823). Grev. Scott, ^r. fl. iv, t. 193 (1826). Spreng. in L. Syst. veg. 

 iv, P. I, 173 (1827). DuBY Bot. gall, ii, 566 (1830). Hueben. Muse. germ. 289 (1833). 



Dicranum poly carpum Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 57, t. 18 p.p. (1818). Hook. Fl. scot. P. 2, 

 133 (1821). Grev. Fl. edin. 240 {1824). 



Didymodon Bruntoni Walk.-Arn. Disp. muse. 36 (1825). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 2 ed. 

 117, t. suppl. 4 (1827). Hook. Br. fl. ii, 29 (1833). Mack. Fl. hib. P. 2, 18 (1836), 



Weissia cirrata Bals. De Not. Prodr. fl. raediol. 142 (1834). 



Trichostomum obscurum De Not. Syllab. 194 (1838). 



Cynodontium Bruntoni Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 33 — 36, p. 3, 1. 1 {1846). Rabenh. Deutsch. 

 kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 128 (1848). WiLS. Bry. brit. 61, t. 34 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 60 (i860). 

 Berk. Handb. br. m. 284, t. 23, fig. 9 (1863). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 39 (1873). Juratz. 

 Laubm. oesterr-ung. 25 (1882). 



Weissia Bruntoni De Not. Epil. bri. ital. 597 (1869). 



Oreoweisia Bruntoni Milde Bry. siles. 54 (i86g). 



Dicranoweisia Bruntoni Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 56 (1876). 



Autoicous ; in soft yellowish or olive green cushioned tufts, with 

 ferruginous radicles at base, fastigiate branched. Leaves crowded, 



