Splachnace^.] io8 [Splachnum. 



I. SPLACHNUM AMPULLACEUM L. 



Autoicous and dioicous ; leaves obovato — lane, acutely acuminate, 

 serrate in upper part ; caps, oblong with a large inversely flask-shaped 

 hypophysis tapering down into the seta. (T. LXI, A.) 



Syn. — Adiantum aureum minus palustre, cap'iiulis erectis coronatis W. Sherard. Ray Synops. 

 237 (i6go). 



Bryum erectis gigartinis capitulis, foliis serpylli pellucidis acutis Dill, in Ray Syn. 

 3 ed. 93, 1,. 6 (1724). 



Bryum ampnllaceum, foliis ihymi pellucidis, collo strictiori Dill. Hist. muse. 343, t. 44, 

 f. 3 (1741), et Herb. 



Splachnum ampullaceum L. Sp. pi. iio8 (17S3). Syst. nat. ii, 6gg. Amoen. acad. ii, 280. 

 HuDS. FI. angl. 399 (1762). Neck. meth. muse. 125 (1771). With. Bot. arr. br. 

 veg. ii, 661 (1776). LiGHTF. Fl. scot, ii, 696 (1777). Fl. dan. t. 822 (1780). Ehrh. 

 Hann. Mag. 1780, p. 235. Hedw. Fund. H, 88, t. 7, f. 33, 34 {1782) ; Muse. fr. ii, 41, 

 t. 14 (1788) ; Sp. muse. 53 (i8or). Relh. Fl. cant. 414 (1785). Roth Fl. germ, i, 454 

 (1788). Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 144 (1793), Fl. brit. iii, H75 (1804). Sibth. Fl. oxon. 275 

 (1794). HoFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii. 23 {1795)- Brid. Muse. ree. II, P. I, log (1798), 

 Sp. muse. I, 82 (1806), Mant. 108 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 25g (1826). Swartz Muse, 

 suec. 23 (1798). Abbot Fl. bedf. 231 (i7g8). Hull Br. fl. P. II, 246 (i7g9). Roehl. 

 Moosg. deutsch. 225 (1800I ; Deutsch. fl. iii. 43 (1813). Turn. Muse. hib. 16 (1804). 

 P. Beauv. Prodr. 88 (1805). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 99 (1807). Schwaeg. Suppl. 

 I P. I, 52 (1811). Mart. Fl. er. erl. 116 (1817). Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. 20, t. g 

 (i8r8). Hook. Fl. seot. P. 2, 125 (1821) ; Br. fl. ii, 15 (1833). Funck Moost. 11,1.7 

 (1821). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 718 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 77 (1833). Mack. 

 Fl. hib. P. 2, 13 (1836): De Not. Syllab. 271 (1838), Epil. bri. ital. 461 (1869). 

 Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 23-24, p. 10. t. 6 (1844). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 95 

 (1848). C. IViuELL. Synops. i, 146 (1849). Wils. Bry. brit. 289, t. 9 (1855). Schimp. 

 Synops. 309 (i860), 2 ed. 369. Berk. Handb. br. m. 166, t. 15 (1863). Milde Bry. 

 siles. 187 fi86g). HoBK. Syn. br. m. 133 (1873). Husn. Mouss. nord-ouest 113 (1873), 

 Muse. gall. 206, t. 56 (1888). Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 235 (1882). Lesq. James 

 Moss. N. Amer. 194 (1884). 



Splachnum Turnerianum Dicks. Cr. fasc. 2, p. 3, t. 10, f. 11 (1790). Brid. Sp. muse. I, 

 153; Mant. 108. Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 1116; Fl. brit. 1176. 



Autoicous and dioicous, in small lax tufts. Lower leaves lanceolate, 



upper obovato — and elongato — lane, with a long acute point, coarsely 



serrate at point, very soft, pale green, the nerve vanishing below apex. 



Caps, ovali-cylindric pale yellow, the hypophysis large, pyriform, 



succulent, pink when young, purple when old, defluent on a long purple 



seta ; lid convex, yellow, teeth pale yellow, rather obtuse, 8 bigeminate 



and erect, finally i6 geminate and reflexed against caps, wall, Male 



infl. terminal, the bracts broadly oval at base, longly lineal-subulate. 



Hab.— On dung on wet heaths. Fr. 5 — 6. 



Near Itchin Ferry (Sherard). Near Addington, Surrey (Dillenius). Snowdon (Griffith). 

 Exeter (Turner). Ashdown Forest (Borrer). Terrington Carr, Yorks. (Teesdale) I ! Ross, 

 Hereford (Watkins) ! ! Windermere (Nowell 1859). Kildale, Yorks. (Mudd 1855). 

 Oxford {Boswell 1857). Levens (Barnes 1868). Bowness (Hunt 1867). Devon 

 (Holmes). Stayley Brushes (Whitehead), and many other places in England and 

 Ireland. 



Our most beautiful species, varying considerably in the size and colour 

 of the hypophysis, which when fully developed is of a clear lilac tint, but 

 often it is qiiite narrow and pale greenish, and then represents the form 

 S. Turnerianum. 



