Supplement.] 297 



Trematodon ambiguus Hornsch. Flora 1819, p. 88; Bry. germ, ii, P. II, 206, t. 43, f. 2 

 (1831). Brid. Mant. 52 (i8ig). Funck Moostach. 20, t. 19 (1821). Schwaeg. 

 Suppl. II, P. I, 6g (1823). HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 149 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 223 

 (1838), Epil. bri. ital. 663 (1869). Hartm. Skand. fl. Br. Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 

 2g — 30, p. 5, t. 2 (1846). Rabenh. Deutch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 135 (1848). C. Muell. 

 Synops. i, 457 (1849). Schimp. Synops. 67 (i860), 2 ed. 68. Milde Bry. siles. 56 

 (i86g). JuRATZ. Laubm. oesterr.-ung. 29 (1882). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 2 ed. 65 (1884). 

 Lesq. James Mosses N. Amer. 63 (1884). 



Trematodon vulgaris Brid. Bry. univ. i, 386 (1826). 



Autoicous ; in small dense tufts, pale green or fuscescent ; stems 

 short, branched, radiculose at base. Leaves erecto-patent, flexuose, from 

 a concave ovate-oblong base, suddenly lanceolate-subulate, canaliculate, 

 entire ; nerve semiterete, excurrent in the subula, cells at base narrow 

 rectangular, above rhombic or hexagonal ; perich. bracts much larger, 

 elongate-oblong, gradually acuminate, laxly areolate at base. Caps, on 

 a long flexuose straw-coloured seta, oblong, straw-coloured or orange- 

 brown, the neck cylindric, long as capsule, subarcuate, tumidly stru- 

 mose, the base abrupt at the inner side ; annulus broad, lid conic, 

 subulate rostrate ; teeth confluent at base on an exserted membrane, 

 cleft into two unequal legs, or perforated in the middle line, red, 

 incurved when dry. Male infl. terminal on a basal branch, bracts 

 small, ovate convolute, acuminate, nearly nerveless. 



Hab. — Bare wet turfy places in subalpine districts ; very rare. Fr. 7 — 8. 



In a path at base of Schiehallion, near Tummel bridge, Perthshire {Braithwaite and 

 Crombie, 1883) ! ! 



The species of this beautiful genus are remarkable for the long neck to 

 the capsule which gives the fruit a peculiar club-shaped appearance. Only 

 a single tuft was found, and that was growing in the centre of a patch of the 

 rosy red form oi Brymn pallens. The genus Bruchia also belongs to this sub- 

 family. 



BLINDIA. 



3. BLINDIA TRICHODES (Wils.) Lindh. 



Dioicous ; in small, bright green tufts. Leaves more or less secund, 

 from an oval concave base, longly subulate. Caps, hemispherical, with 

 short truncate teeth. (T. XLV, D.). 



Syn. — Dicranum trichodes Wils. MSS. 



Blindia acuta Vsn. trichodes Braithw. in Journ. Bot. 1870, p. 228. 

 Blindia trichodes Lindb. Philib. in Rev. bryol. 1884, p. 90. 



Dioicous ; small, in bright green or yellowish green tufts, fuscescent 

 at base. Leaves more or less secund, lower short, upper much longer, 

 from a shortly oval concave base, longly subulate, the subula formed 

 entirely of the nerve, canaliculate, denticulate at apex, three times the 



