TortulacEyE.J i86 [Ephemerum. 



calyp. torn at base into shreds ; spores large, rough, ferruginous. Male 



infl. gemmiform basal. 



Hab. — Clay or chalky soil on heaths ; rare. Fr. lo — 2. 



Henfield common and Pondleigh {Mitten 1846) ! ! Mere, Cheshire {Wilson 1854) ! ! 



Var yS. brevifolium Schimp. Syn. 2 ed. p. 6. 



Leaves shorter, nearly entire, nerve reaching apex or vanishing. 



Syn. — Efh. sessile Var. stenophyllum Bry. eur. 1. c. 



Phase, sessile Var. stenophyllum WiLS. Bry. brit. 



Hab.— Mere, Cheshire {Wilson) ! ! 



Great confusion exists in the works of early authors between this moss 

 and the following, so that it is scarcely possible to disentangle the synonymy ; 

 a reference to the figures will show that in E. recurvifolium, the leaves are 

 much longer and linear in outline, while in E. stenophyllum, they taper 

 gradually upward to a point. 



6. EPHEMERUM RECURVIFOIIUM {Dicks.) Li 



Dioicous ; leaves lineal lane, flexuose, recurved, denticulate at 

 apex, nerve excurrent ; capsule oval. (T. XXVII, F.) 



Syn. — Pliascum recurvifolium Dicks. Crypt, fasc IV, p. i, t. 10, f. 2 (1801). Turn. Muse. hib. 

 2 (1804). Brid. Sp. muse. I, 4 (1806), Bry. univ. i, 31, p.p. (1826). Schkuhr Deutsch. 

 kr. Gew. ii, P. II, 11, t. 4 ? Nees Hornsch. Bry. germ, i, 42, t. 5, f . 4 ? (1823). 

 HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 9 (1833). WiLs. Bry. brit. 28, t. 37 (1855). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 

 27 (1873). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest 33 (1873). 



Phascum patens Var. Sm. F1. brit. iii, 1150 (1804) ? Hook. Tay. muse. brit. 7 (1818) ? Brid. 

 Bry. un. i, 34. 



Phase, pachycarpum. Schw.eg. Suppl. I, P. I, 6, t. 2 (1811). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. i, 

 Men. 8, t. 2 (1837). 



Phaseum Dicksoni Brid. Mant. 7 (i8ig). 



Phascum crassinervium Nees Hornsch. Bry. germ, i, 40 p.p. t. 4, f. 3 (1823). Brid. Bry. 

 univ. i, 32 p.p. Grev. Scott, cr. fl. vi, t. 353 (1829). Hook. Brit. fl. ii,3 (1833). WiLS. 

 in Eng. Bot. t. 2932. 



Ephemerum pachycarpum Hampe in Flora xx., P. I, 295 (1837) ? Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. 

 ii, P. 3, 85 (1848). Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 42, mon. 6, t. 2 (1849), CoroU. 3 (1855). 



Physedium pachycarpum C. Muell. in Bot. Zeit. 1847, P- i°^- 



Ephemerella pachycarpa C. Muell. Synops. i, 34 (1849). 



Ephemerella rccurvifolia Schimp. Synops. 7 (i860), 2 ed. 9. Berk. Handb. br. m. 303 

 (1863). LiNDB. de Tort. 215 (1864). Milde Bry. siles. 90 (1869). Jaeg. Ber. St. Gall, 

 gesells. 1869, p. 73. JuRATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 5 (1882). 



Ephemerum'/ecurvifolium Lindb. Muse, scand. 22 (1879). 



Dioicous ; vi^ith dull green, much-branched protonema. Leaves 

 erecto-patent, flexuose, curved, spreading backward towards apex, 

 elongated, lineal-lingulate, eroso-denticulate at apex; nerve strong, 

 excurrent in an apiculus or vanishing ; cells at base elongated hexagono- 

 rectangular, hyaline, above denser, rhombic, chlorophyllose. Caps, on 

 a very short pedicel, subglobose, rostellate, rufous brown, pachyder- 

 mous ; cal. campanulate, split on one side nearly to top, vaginula 

 oblong ; spores granular, fuscous. Male plant gemmiform. 



