Splachnace^.] 115 [Tayloria. 



from T. serrata, and had been confounded with it from the circumstance of 

 growing intermixed. 



Sect. 2. CYRTODON (Brown). Peristome not reflexed when dry; 

 columella slightly or not exserted. Leaves obtuse, entire. Male infl. 

 gemmiform. 



2. TAYLOEIA LINGULATA [Dicks.) Lindb. 



Synoicous ; tall, densely tufted. Leaves erecto-patent, lingulate, 

 obtuse, entire, nerve ceasing below apex. Caps, obovate, with a short 

 neck tapering into seta ; teeth of peristome 16, equidistant, yellow. 

 (T. LXII, D). 



Syn. — Splnchnum lingulaium Dicks. Crypt. Fasc. IV, 4, t. lo, f. 6 (1801). Sm. F1. brit. 1177 

 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 2095. Brid. Sp. muse. I, 143 (1806), Manl. 105. Spreng. (L.) Syst. 

 Veg. 16 ed. iv, 152 (1827). 

 Bryum reticulatum Dicks. Crypt. Fasc. II, 4, t. 4, f. 6(?). 



Weissia splachnoides Swartz in litt. in Sm. F1. brit. 1197 ut synon. (1804). Brid. Sp. 

 .muse. I, 117 (1806), Mant. 45 (i8ig). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. I, 63, t. 17 (1811). 

 Wahlenb. F1. lapp. 326 (1812). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 42, t. 14 (1818). Gray Nat. 

 arr. br. pi. i, 729 (1821). Hook. F1. seot. P. 2, 130 {1821). Funck Moostasch. 12, t. g 

 (1821). Grev. Scott, cr. fl. t. 145 (1825). Hook, in Fl. Lond. t. 192. 



Cyrtodon splachnoides R. Br. in App. to Parry's i Voy. p. 299 (1824). Hook. Br. fl. ii, 



17 (1833)- 

 Dissodon splachnoides Grev. Arn. in Mem. Wern. soc. v, 468, t. 13 (1825). Br. Sch. Bry. 



ear. 23 — 24, p. 10, t. 3 (1844). Raeenh. Deutsch. kr. fi. ii, S. 3, 94 (1848). C. Muell. 



Synops. i, 139 (1849). Wils. Bry. br. 297, t. 14 (1835). Schimp. Synops. 298 (i860), 



2 ed. 358. Berk. Handb. br. m. 163, t. 14, f. 6 (1863). Hobk. Synops. 135 (1873). 



JuRATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 227 (1882). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. iqo (1884). 



Husn. Muse, gall, 202, t. 54 (1888). 



Weissia turbinata Drumm. Muse. bor. amer. n. 64. 



Eremodon splachnoides Brid. Bry. univ. i, 234 (1826). Nees Hornsch. Bry. germ, ii, P. 

 II, 173, t. 39 (1831). Hueeen. Muse. germ. 91 (1833). 



Tayloria lingulata Lindb. Muse. Scand. 19 (1879). 



Synoicous and autoicous ; in wide dense tufts i — 5 in. high, dark 

 green above, blackish at base ; the stems repeatedly dichotomous and 

 fastigiate. Leaves gradually accrescent upward, suberect, crowded, 

 very soft, obovate-oblong and lingulate, dark green, black when old, 

 concave, entire, obtuse ; cells lax hexagono-rectangular, longer at base ; 

 nerve vanishing below apex. Seta i — 2 in. long, reddish yellow. Caps, 

 orange-brown, erect, rarely oblique, oval with a swollen neck tapering 

 downwards into the seta, when dry and empty globose-turbinate with 

 the columella a little exserted ; calyptra submitrseform, whitish ; lid 

 convex-conic, apiculate ; teeth yellowish, equidistant, acuminate, erect. 



Hab. — Turf bogs on the higher Scotch mountains. Fr. 8. 



Ben Lawers (Don) I ! Craig Chailleaeh {Hooker). Ben Lomond (G. Don). Clova 

 (Fergusson 1868) 



