ToRTULACE^.] igi [Phascum. 



Hab. — On heaths, not common. 



Croydon (OicAsoM). Bedford (^i6o<), Henfield (Z5aj)«s 1868) ! ! Coleshill Heath (Bag-nnZZ). 

 This common moss varies much in size, so that numerous forms are met 

 with. The greatest deviation from its ordinary aspect is when it throws out 

 several innovations and becomes branched from the base. 



2. PHASCUM FLOERKEI Weh. Mohr. 



Paroicous; leaves ovate, gradually acuminate, patulous, margin 

 revolute, entire, nerve thick excurrent. Caps, rostellate. (T. XXVII, K.) 



SVN. — Phascum Floerkeanum Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 70 & 451 (1807). Schkuhr Deutsch. 

 kr. gew. P. 2, 5, t. 2 (1810). ScHWAEGR. Suppl. I, P. I, 3, t. 3 (1811). Roehl. Deutsch. 

 fl. iii, 32 (1813). Brid. Mant. 5 (i8ig) ; Bry. univ. i, 26 (1826). Funck Moost. 2, t. 1 

 (1821). Nees Hornsch. Bry. germ, i, 52, t. 5, f. 10 (1823). Hueben. Muse. germ. 11 

 (1833). Br. Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. i, p. 8, t. 3 (1837). De Not. Syllab. 303 (1838), 

 Epil. bri. it. 736 (i86g). Wils. Eng. Bot. t. 2887 (1844), Bry. brit. 30, t. 37 (1855). 

 Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, s. 3, 80 (1848). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 28 (1873). HuSN. Mouss. 

 nord-ouest. 33 (1873). 



Phase, minutum Roehl. Ann. wetter, ges. i, 185 (1809). 



Acaulon Floerkeanum C. Muell, in Bot. Zeit. v, gg (1847) ' Synops. i, 21 (1848). Bruch 

 Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 42, t. 2 (i84g). 



Schistidium Floerk. Mitt, in Ann. nat. hist. 2 ser. viii, 311 {1851). 



Mierobryum Floerk. Schimp. Synops. 11 (i860). Lindb. de Tort. 216 (1864). Jaeg. Ber. 

 St. Gall. ges. i86g, p. 74. Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 87 (1882). Lesq. James Mosses 

 N. Amer. 45 (1884). 



Paroicous; minute, scattered, gemmaceous, rufescent. Leaves erecto- 

 patent, lower very small ovate nerveless, upper ovato-acuminate, con- 

 cave, somewhat recurved at points, minutely papillose at back towards 

 apex, cuspidate with the stout, reddish, excurrent nerve ; margins 

 slightly reflexed above, entire or subcrenulate towards point ; basal 

 cells hexagono-rectangular lax pellucid, upper rhombic incrassate. 

 Caps, reddish-brown, immersed, globose-ovate, pachydermous, with a 

 thick obtuse point ; cal. somewhat conical, rarely cleft at side, dilated 

 and torn at base ; spores pale. Antheridia naked in axils of upper 

 leaves, occasionally in distinct plants on the same protonema, bracts 

 acuminate, ovate nerveless. 



Hab. — Clay fields ; not common. Fr. 11 — 2. 



Durham coast between Sunderland and S. Shields {Bowman 1840) ! ! Ravensworth 

 castle, by the Team (Thornhill) ! Sussex, Newtimber (Borrcr 1845) ! Hurstpierpoint 

 and Woolsonbury hill (Mitten 1845) ! ! Aldrington (Davies 185b) ! ! Castle Howard 

 (Spruce). Conway (Wilson i85i) ! ! Llansaintfraid {Wilson 1864). Wolvercott, 

 Oxford {Boswell 1867) ! ! 



Var. yS. badium (Voit) Brid. 



Leaves longer, narrower, brownish ; caps, smaller ovate, badious. 



Syn. — Phascum badiumVois: Mvischerh. ■; (1812). Nees Hornsch. Bry. germ, i, 53, t. 5, f. 

 II. Brid. Bry. univ. i, 27. Hueben. 1. c. Jaeg. op. c. 75. 



Phase. Floerkeanum p. badium Brid. Mant. 3. 



Hab. — Occasionally found with the typical form. 



Bulraer near York (Spruce 1844). Hurstpierpoint (Mitten) ! ! 



