Grimmiace^.] 93 \Weissia. 



on a long pedicel, oval-pyrifonn, yellow-brown, pachydermous, gradually 

 attenuated into a long neck, 8-costate, when dry and empty elongated, 

 fusiform, contracted at mouth, fuscous ; cells of the bands in 5 rows, 

 quadrate, thickened in the longitudinal walls ; lid pale, convex, rostellate ; 

 teeth bigeminate, finally 16 and geminate, reflexed when dry, pale 

 papillose, cilia 8, long as teeth, or 16 alternately long and short, narrow. 

 Spores green, larger than in W. ulophylla. 



Hab. — On trees ; not uncommon. Fr. 7 — 8. 



This is more robust than W. ulophylla, the leaves less crisped, with larger 

 cells, those next the nerve at base longer and laxer ; the capsule is more 

 exserted, darker brown, when empty attenuated, fusiform, contracted and 

 twisted at mouth. The two species sometimes grow together. 



5. WEISSIA ULOPHYLLA Ehrh. 



Autoicous ; soft and pulvinate, branched. Leaves strongly crisped 

 when dry, from a concave ovate base, linear-lanceolate. Caps, clavate, 

 attenuated in a long neck, strongly striate, contracted below the wide 

 mouth ; calyptra very hairy. (T. LIX, D.) 



Syn. — Muscus capitulis longis actitis pilosissimis D, Sherardi Ray Synops. 2 ed. p. 32 (i6g6). 



Polytrichuin minus foUis capillaceis Dill, Cat. Giss. 222 (1719). 



Polytrichum capsulis oblongo-rotundis, calyptris pilosissimis Dill, in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 

 91 (1724). 



Polytrichum capillaceum crispuiii calyptris acntis pilosissimis Dill. Hist. muse. 433, t. 55, 

 f. II (1741) et Herbar. 



Polytrichum striatum S. L. Sp. plant. 1115 (1753). HuDS. Fl. angl. 401 (1762). With. 

 Bot. arr. Br. veg. ii, 671 (1776). 



Polytrichum bryoides, capillaceum Weiss Crypt. Gott. 177 (1770). 



Polytrichum striatum Neck. Meth. muse. 121 (1771). 



Bryum striatum Var. ulophyllum Ehrh. Hann. mag. 1780, p- 236. 



Weissia ulophylla Ehrh. Beitrag. i, igi {1787). Lindb. Act. soc. sc. fenn. X, 12 (1871). 



Bryum crlspum Gmel. (L.) Syst. nat. ii, 1335 (1791). Laich. Pi. eur.483 (1794). Hoffm. 

 Deutsch. fl. ii, 25 (1796). With. Bot. arr. br. veg. 3 cd. iii, 827 (1796). Abbot Fl. 

 bedf. 236 (1798). 



Orthotrichum crispum Hedw. Muse. fr. ii, 96, t. 35 (1788), Sp. muse. 152 (1801). Timm 

 Fl. megap. (1788). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 19 (1801), Sp. Muse. II, 5 (1812). 

 SwARTz Muse. suec. 42 (1798). Smith Eng. Bot. t. 996 (1801), Fl. brit. 1266 (1804). 

 Turn. Muse, hib. 93 (1804). P. Beauv. Prodr. 80 (1805). Schultz Fl. starg. 308 

 (1806). VoiT Muse, herb. 65 (1812). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 364 (1812), Fl, earpat. 354 

 (1814J. Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 13 (1816). RoEHL. Deutseh. fl. iii, 81 (1813). 

 Mart. Fl. cr. erl. n. 86 ^1817). Hook. Tayl. 73, t. 21 (1818). Hartm. Skand. fl. 

 Hook. Fl. sect. P. 2, 137 (1821), Br. fl, ii, 56 (1833), Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 745 

 (1821). FuNCK Moost. 34, t. 23 (1821), Hook. Grev. Edin. J, Se. 1, 126 (1824). 

 HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 350 (1833). Mack. Fl. hib. P. 2, 36 (1836). Br. Sch. Bry. ear. 

 fasc. 2—3, 23, t. 12 (1837). De Not. Syllab. 155 (1838). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. 11, 

 S. 3, 183 (1848). C. MuELL. Synops. i, 712 (1849). WiLS. Bry. br. 188, t. 21 (1855). 

 Husn. Mouss. N. ouest 104 (1873). Hobk. Syn, br, m. 95 (1873). 



Weissia crispa Sibth. Fl. oxon. 287 (1794). Roth Fl. germ, iii, P. I, 222 (1800). 



