SPLACHNACEyE.] I13 [Tayloria, 



Syn. — Splachntim angusiaium Swartz Meth. muse. 33 (1787), Muse. suec. 23 (1798). Hedw. 

 Muse. fr. ii, 37, t. 12 (1788), Sp. muse. 51 (1801). Dicks. PI. cr. fasc. II, 3 (1790). 

 With. Bot. arr. 3 ed. iii, 792 (1796). Brid. Muse. ree. II, P. I, 108 (1798), Sp. muse. I, 

 148 (1806), Mant. 106 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 248 (1826). Hull Br. fl. P. 2, 246 (1799), 

 Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 1132 (1803), Fl. brit. iii, 1169 (1804). P. Beauv. Prodr. 88 (1805). 

 Web. Mohr Bot. Taseh.g7 (1807). Schkuhr Deutsch. kr. gew. P. II, 38, t. 14 (1810). 

 ScHWAEQ. Suppl. I, P. I, 48 (1811). RoEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 42 (1813). Wahlen. Fl. 

 lapp. 309 (1812). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 20, t. 9 (1818). Hook. Fl. scot. P. 2, 124 

 (1821), Br. fl. ii, IS (1833). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 718 (1821). Funck Moost. t. 7, 

 f. 3 (1821). HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 82 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 275 (1838). 



Tetraplodon angustaius Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 23— 24, Mon. 4, t. i (1844). Raeenh. 

 Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 90 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. i, 130 (1849). WiLS. Bry. br. 

 292, t. g (1855). ScHiMP. Synops. 303 (i860), 2 ed. 363. Berk. Handb. br. m. 164 

 t. 15, f. I (1863). MiLDE Bry. siles. 186 (1869). De Not. Epil. bri. ital. 467 (1869). 

 HoBK. Syn. br. m. 134 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 231 (1882). Lesq. James 

 Moss. N. Amer. 192 (1884). HuSN. Muse, gall. 204, t. 55 (1888). 



Autoicous ; in small dense pale green tufts, with ferruginous radicular 

 tomentum. Stem slender i — 2 in. high, repeatedly divided, fastigiate. 

 Leaves distant, erecto-patent, soft, elongato-lanceolate, running out into 

 a very long yellow flexuose subula, with the nerve prolonged into it, 

 margin serrate above; those of the sterile branches broader with shorter 

 points. Caps, on a short pale seta, scarce overtopping the leaves, pale 

 brownish, constricted below the mouth when dry, small oval with a 

 pyriform hypophysis ; lid convex or obtusely conical ; teeth bigeminate 

 or approximate in pairs, lane, obtuse, reddish brown. Male infl. at base 

 of innovation or terminal on a branch, bracts from a broad base, 

 narrowly acuminate, obsoletely nerved. 



Hab. — Dung and decayed animal matter, rare. Fr. 7 — 8. 



Near Loch Awen (Dickson). Cairngorm. Glen Dole (Wilson) ! ! Ben Wyvis (McKinlay). 

 Glen Dee, Aberdeen (jf. B. Syme 1851) ! 



3. TAYLORIA Hook. 



Journ. Se. & Arts No. 3, p. 144 (1816). 



In lax tufts, tomentose ; leaves spathulate laxly areolate. Calyptra 

 mitrseform, inflexed and narrowed at base, cleft on one side, lacerate and 

 erose at margin, capsule cylindraceous with a narrow subpyriform 

 hypophysis, expanded at mouth when dry ; teeth of per. 16, entire or 

 cleft, lanceolate or long and lash-shaped. Male infl. capituliform. 



Der. — After Dr. T. Taylor. 



The two sections of this" genus comprise about 25 species, most of them 

 fine mosses with tall setse, the capsules wide-mouthed and much broader 

 than the hypophysis. In Tayloria splachnoides the teeth of per. are very long 

 and twisted. 



