Grimmiace.^e:.] 13 [Grimmia. 



dry, from lanceolate, lineal-subulate, diaphanous or with a short hair 

 at point, at base carinate-concave with recurved margins, thence sub- 

 complicate, cells larger, elongate and hexagono-rectangular at base, 

 sinuoso-quadrate at apex, partly chlorophyllose, partly diaphanous. 

 Perichsetium exserted, bracts from an erect, oblong longly sheathing 

 base, subulate and patent, longer than the capsule. 



Caps, on a subarcuate pedicel, cernuous, erect when dry, small, 

 oval, smooth, leptodermous, yellowish ; lid convex-conic, obtuse, erose 

 at base, orange-red ; calyptra mitrate-subulate, annulus broad of 3 rows 

 of cells ; teeth orange-rufous, reflexed when dry, cleft below middle 

 and lacunose. Male infl. terminal, bracts broadly ovate, shortly 

 acuminate. 

 Hab. — Shady crevices of siliceous rocks ; rare. Fr. 4 — 5. 



Bellyside hill and Henhole and in the Bizzle c. fr., Cheviots (Hardy 1867) ! I Cloch-na- 

 Ben, Kincardine (Sim 1868) ! ! Bach-na-Gairn and Glen Callater (Fergusson). 

 Glyders, N. Wales (Holmes 1878) I ! 



The fruit of this moss is very rare, and the plant is very like Dicmno- 

 weissia cirrata ; it may be recognised by the subulate leaves with short hyaline 

 points, and the curly black cushions in which it grows. 



7. GRIMMIA FUNALIS (Schwaeg.) Schimp. 



Dioicous ; slender, densely casspitose. Leaves lane, spirally twisted 

 when dry, upper attenuated into a hair ; margins plane. Caps, minute, 

 on a short arcuate seta, ovate, lid conic. (T. XLVII, D.) 



Syn. — Trichostomum funale Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. I, 150, t- 37 (1811). Roehl. Deutsch. fl. 

 iii, 62 (1813). FuNCK Moost. 26, t, 18. 



Grimmia spiralis Hook. Tayl. in Drumm. Muse. Scot, ii, n. 2g. Muse. br. 2 ed. 6g, t. 2 

 (1827). Grev. Scott, cr. fl. iv, t. 203 {1827). Hook. Br. fl. ii, 26 (1833). Br. Sch. 

 Bry. ear. fasc. 25 — 28, p. 14, t. 7 (1845). Aongst. in Fries Summ. veg. scand. 93 

 (1846). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 162 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. 789 (1849). 

 WiLs. Bry. br. 154, t. 32 (1855). Hartm. Skand. fl. 7 ed. 372 (1858). Berk. Handb. 

 br. m. 241 (1863). De Not. Epil. Bri. ital. 687 (1869). 



Grimmia funalis Schimp. Synops. 211 (i860), 2 ed. 254. Zetterst. Rev. Grimm. Scand. 

 72 (1861). MiLDE Bry. siles. 148 (i86g). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 81 (1873). Juratz. 

 Laubm. oester.-ung. 160 (1882). Chalub. Grimm. Tatr. 45 (1882). Boulay Muse. Fr. 

 382 (1884). HusN. Muse. gall. 132, t. 38 (1887). 



Campylof us funalis Brid. Mant. 75 (1819). 



Dryptodon funalis Brid. Bry. un. i, 193 (1826). 



Dryptodon spiralis Brid. Bry. un. i, 771 (1827). 



Grimmia cernua Nees Hsch. Bry. germ, ii, P. I, 174, t. 24 (1827). 



Rficomitrium funale Hueben. Muse. germ. 200 (1833). 



Dioicous ; densely csespitose, readily falling asunder, grey-green or 

 yellowish -green above, reddish brown or fuscous below. Stems i — 2 in. 

 high, slender, erect, subdichotomous, free from radicles. Leaves when 



