Grimmiace^.] 7 [Grimmia. 



broad, lanceolate, orange, papillose, rimoso-cribrose. Male infl. small, 

 gemmaceous, in the axils of comal leaves. 



Hab. — Trap or sandstone rocks ; rare. Fr. 3 — 4. 



Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh (Greville 1847) ! ! 



Var. p. pruinosa {Wils.) 



More robust, in blackish tufts. Leaves broader, the upper gradually 



ending in long smoothish hairs ; perich. bracts larger, distinctly papillose. 



Teeth of per. rufous-orange, more lanceolate, often reflexed against the 

 capsule. 



Syn. — Grimmia pruinosa Wils. MSS. Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 241. 



Grimmia conferta Var. incana Braithw. in Journ. Bot. 1872, p. 195. HoBK. Syn. 77. 

 Grimmia apocarpa Var. pruinosa HusN. muse. gall. 123. 



Hab. — Bowling, Glasgow {McKinlay 1865) ! ! Largo Law and Dunbarnie Links, Fife {Howie 

 1863) ! ! Downe, Perth (McKinlay). Cavehill, Belfast, and Rathlin Isl. {Stewart 

 1882) ! ! Mourne Mtns. (Lett 1883). 



As will be noticed several good bryologists unite G. conferta with 

 G. apocarpa, and with some reason as the differences are not very important, 

 still there are several which induce us to keep them apart. These are in 

 G. conferta the small size and densely pulvinate habit of growth, dark green 

 leaves, with the apex plane and more minute reticulation, and nerve more 

 prominent at back, the orange rimoso-cribrose teeth, which are more fragile 

 and fugacious. 



Schimper's var. obtusifolia is only a form with blunt -pointed leaves, and 

 G. pruinosa may perhaps be regarded as the transition to the next species. 



2. GRIMMIA APOCARPA (L.) Hedw. 



Autoicous ; laxly casspitose, free from radicles. Leaves broadly 

 lane, with short hair-points or muticous, the margin strongly revolute. 

 Caps, pachydermous, rufous, teeth deep red, subentire. (T. XLVI, B.) 



Syn. — Miiscus trichoides, capituUs apodibus, foli'ts angustioribus Doodii Ray Synops. 2 ed. 339 

 (1696), Hist, iii, 39, n. 3 (1704). 

 Muscus apocarpos hirsutus saxis adnascens, capitulis obscure rubris Ray Hist, iii, 40, n. 10. 



Sphagnum cauliferum et ramosum saxatile hirsutum virescens, capituUs obscure rubris 

 Dill. Cat. Giss. 229 (1719), in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 104 (1724). 



Sphagnum subhirsutum obscure virens capsulis rubellis Dill. Hist. muse. 245, t. 32, f. 4 

 (1741) et Herb. 



Bryum apocarpum L. Sp. pi. 1115 (1753), Syst. nat. ii, 701. HuDS. Fl. angl. 403 (1762). 



Oeder Fl. dan. t. 480 (1769). Weiss Crypt. Goett. 179 (1770). Neck. Meth. muse. 



199 (1771)- With. Bot. arr. br. veg. ii, 670 (1776). Lightf. Fl. seot. ii, 716 (1777). 



Relhan Fl. eant. 402 (1785). Vill. PI. Dauph. (1786). Schmid. le. pi. rar. 



Man. n. t. 57, fT i (1795). Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 30 (1795). Abbott Fl. bedf. 236 



(1798). Hull Br. fl. P. H, 253 (1799). 

 Bryum apocarpum Var. virens Ehrh. Hann. mag. 1780, p. 236. 



Fontinalis apocarpa Web. Spic. fl. gott. 38 (1778). Swartz Meth. muse. 366 (1781). 

 Grimmia polyodon Ehrh. Beitr. i, 169 (1787). Moench Meth. pi. Marb. 730 (1794). 



