GrimmiacEyE.] ']'] [Orthqtrichum. 



nated by a lanceolate membranous point, colourless, denticulate at margin, 

 and composed of narrow elongate cells, margin revolute, nerve vanishing 

 in the apiculus ; cells at base quadrangular, elongate, above rounded 

 and hexagonal, rather large, with very small obtuse papillse. Caps, 

 emergent, pale yellow, oblong, not contracted below mouth, lepto- 

 dermous, when dry oblong-obovate, when moist suddenly contracted at 

 base into a short pedicel, ridges 8, of two rows of indistinct quadrangular 

 cells; stomata numerous, immersed, with elevated border - cells. 

 Calyptra naked or nearly so, campanulate, thin, greenish-yellow, brown 

 at point, 8-plicate ; lid short, conical. Peristome pale yellow, of 

 i6 geminate teeth more or less cleft at point, papillose, long, recurved 

 when dry, cilia i6, filiform, hyaline, papillose. Male infl. terminal on a 

 short branch. 



Hab. — Trunks of trees, walls, and old pales. Fr. 4. 



This little moss is easily overlooked, as it only grows in small tufts, and 

 somewhat sporadically ; it may be recognized at once by the hyaline points 

 to the leaves. 



** Peristome teeth striolate, with erect vertical lamella at base ; cilia none or rudimentary. 

 9. ORTHOTRICHUM CUPTJLATUM Hoffm. 



Autoicous; in coarse dull green tufts. Leaves oblong lanceolate. 

 Caps, immersed, oval-oblong with i6 ridges, calyptra campanulate, 

 hairy; teeth 16, each with four basal lamellae. (T. LVI, E.) 



SvN.—Orthotrichum ctipulalum Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 26 {1796). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 25 

 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 10 (1812), 'Mant. log (1819), Bry. univ. i, 272 (1826). P. Beauv 

 Prodr. 80 {1805). ScHULTZ Fl. starg. 309 {1806). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 230 (1807) 

 ScHWAF.G. Suppl. I, P. II, 35,-t. 55 (1816). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 72, t. 21 (1818) 

 Hook. Fl. scot. P. II, 137 (1821), Brit. Fl. ii, 53 (1833). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 745 

 (1821). Grev. in Mem. Wern. soc. iii, 436 (1821). Funck. Moost. 35,1.23 (1821) 

 Hook. Grev. in Edin. J. Sci. i, 112 (1824). Hueben. Muse. germ. 381 (1833). Mack, 

 Fl. hib. P. 2, 29 (1836). De Not. Syllab. 150 (1838), Epil. bri. ital. 299 (1869). Br, 

 ScH. Bry. eur. fasc. 2—3, p. 8, t. 2 (1837). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii. S. 3, 176 {1848), 

 C. MuELL. Synops. i, 700 (1849). Hammar Mon. Orthot. suec. 17 (1852). WiLS. Bry 

 br. 176,- 1. 21 (1855). -ScHiMP. Svnops. 260 (i860), 2 ed. 313. Berk. Handb.br. m. 220, 

 t. 20 (1863). MiLDE bry. siles. 170 (1869). Boulay Fl. cr. de I'Est 617 (1872). Hoek 

 Syn. br. m. 89 (1873). HusN. Mouss. N. ouest 105 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. oester.- 

 ung. 211 (1882). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 165 (1884). Vent, in HusN. Muse 

 gall. 160, t. 44 (1887). 



Weissia cupulata Roth Fl. germ, iii, P. I, 217 (1800). 



O, urceolatum Schleich. Cat. pi. helv. 42 (1800). 



Orthotrichum anomalum Sm. Fl. brit. 1267 (1804), Eng. bot. t. 1423. 



O. strangulatum P. Beauv. Prodr. 81. Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 53. t. 34. Brid. Sp. 

 muse. II, 13, Bry. univ. i, 273. 



Brachytrichum ciipulatum Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 47 (1813). Ann. Wett. ges. iii, 195. 



DorcadioH cupulatum Lind. Muse, scand., 28 (1879), 



