Grimmiace^.] 44 [Grimmia. 



canaliculate, the margin revolute, not thickened, nerve flattened, 

 sulcate, well-defined; cells at base obtusely sinuose, narrow and 

 elongated, upper dense, quadrate, very smooth, plane. Perich. bracts 

 shorter, sheathing, with shorter hairs, nerve vanishing above the 

 middle. Calyptra 4 — 5 lobed, rough at apex ; lid conico-subulate, half 

 length of capsule ; annulus narrow, yellow ; seta straight, reddish- 

 yellow ; caps, oblongo-cylindraceous, small-mouthed, pachydermous, 

 tawny-brown, fuscous when old ; teeth red, lanceolate, in two unequal 

 filiform papillose legs. Male plant resembling the female, inner bracts 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, apiculate. 



Hab. — Quartzose rocks, stones and walls in subalpine districts. Fr. 4. 



A frequent moss on moorlands and exposed rocks, and very variable in 

 size, mode of branching and form of fruit, the latter however always more or 

 less cylindric. In its rough rigid habit it much resembles G. apocarpa. 



35. GRIMMIA RAMULOSA. Lindb. 



Dioicous; in lax tufts, stems slender with numerous short branches. 

 Leaves spreading, elongato-lanceolate, acute, with a short serrate hair, 

 cells all elongated and sinuose. Caps, very small, elliptic, lid rostrate. 

 (T. LI, F.) 



Syn. — Bryum caiile erecto, ramis lateralibus brevibus fertilibus L. Fl. lapp. 314 {1737). 



Bryum hypnoides alfinum, setls et capsulis exiguis Oeder FI. dan. iii, g, excl. syn t 476 

 (1769). 



Trichostomum microcarpon Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. I, 127 p.p. 1798, Sp. muse. I, 237 p p 

 (1806). De Can. (Lamk.) Fl. franc. 3 ed. ii, 469 p.p. (1805). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp 3'3i 

 excl. syn. (1812). Swartz m Liljebl. Svensk fl. 3 ed. 537 (1816). Hartm. Skand. 

 fl. 400, excl. syn. (1820). 



Bryum microcarpum Funck Cr. gew. fieht. fasc. 2, p. 3, n. 40 (i8oi). Hoppe in Sturm 

 Deutsch. fl. II, fasc. 7 (1805). 



Rhacomitrium microcarpon Brid. Mant. 79 p.p. (1819), Bry. univ. i, 211 p.p. (1826). 

 HuEEEN. Muse. germ. 202 excl. syn. et Var. p. (1833). De Not. Syll. 253 (1838). 

 Epil. bri. ital. 674 (1869). Hartm. Skand. fl. 4 ed. 389 excl. Var. (3. (1843). Br. Sch! 

 Bry. eur. fasc. 25—28, p. 10, t. 5 (1845). Aonqstr. in Fries Summ. Veg. sc. 92 (1846). 

 Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 158 (1848). Wils. Bry. br. i6g, t. 61 (1855). Schimp. 

 Synops. 233 (i860), 2 ed. 279. Zetterst. Rev. Grimm, sc. 124 (1861). Berk. Handb. 

 br. m. 234 (1863). MiLDE Bry. siles. 158 (i86g). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 88 (1873). HnSN. 

 Mouss. nord-ouest 96 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 180 (1882). Chalue. 

 Grimm. Tatr. 105, t. 15 (1882). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 150 (1884). 



Trichostomum heterostichum Var. p. microcarpum Wahlenb. Fl. suec. ii, vqi excl svn 

 Dill. (1826). ' /D } ■ 



Grimmia ericoides Brid. Bry. univ. i, 768 (1827). 



Grimmia microcarpa C. Muell. Synopr. i, 804 excl. forma procera (1849). 



