Fam. 13. OEDlPODIACEiE. 



Plants succulent, in small dark green tufts. Leaves broad, opake, 

 the cells very smooth, chlorophyllose, the median multangular-oval 

 with trigonous spaces, the uppermost smaller, angular-rounded ; nerve 

 very broad and flat, prominent beneath. Calyptra conico-cylindric, thin, 

 cleft up one side ; caps, gymnostomous, subglobose, tapering downward 

 into a long tubular hypophysis which takes the place of a seta ; columella 

 dilated at apex ; spores papillose. Inhabiting crevices of alpine rocks. 



OEDIPODIUM Schwaeg. 



Suppl. II, P. I, t. 105 (1823). 



Capsule clavato-pyriform, the hypophysis tapering downward to the 

 vaginula, gymnostomous. Calyptra narrow, fugacious, cleft at side. 

 Spores papillose. Leaves quinquefarious, rounded obovate, the cells 

 large rounded — hexagonal, opake and chlorophyllose. Der. otSos a 

 swelling, ttous a foot. 



OEDIPODIUM GRIFFITHII (Dicks.) Schwaeg. 

 The only species of the genus. (T. LXIIL) 



Syn. — Splachnum Froelichianum (non Hedw.) With. Bot. arr. br. veg. 3 ed. iii, 794 excl. syn. 

 (1796). Hull Br. fl. P. II, 246 (1799). Swartz in Wee. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 105 in 

 obs. (1807). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. I, 51, p. p. (1811). Brid. Mant. 105, p. p. (i8ig). 



Bryum Griffithianum Dicks. Crypt. Fasc. IV, 8, t. 10, f. 10 (1801). 



Splachnum ? succulentum Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 64 in obs. (1803). P. Beauv. 

 Prodr. 8g (1805). 



Gymnostomum Griffithianum Sm. Fl. brit. 1162 (1804), Eng. Bot. t, 1938. Brid. Sp. 

 muse. I, 37 (1806). Hook. Tay. Muse. br. 11, t. 7 (1818). Gray nat. arr. br. pi. i, 714 

 (1821). Hartm. Skand. fl. 2 ed. 300 (1832). 



Oedipoditim Griffithianum Schwaeg. Suppl. II, P. I, 15, t. 105 (1823). Brid. Bry. 

 univ. ii, 83 (1827). Hook. Br. Fl. ii, 6 (1833). Mack. Fl. hib. P. 2, 9 (1836). Valent. 

 in Tr. Linn. Soc. xviii, 499, t. 35 (1840). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. Fasc. 23 — 24, Mon. 4, t. i 

 (1844). AoNGST. in Fries Sum. veg. scand. i, go (1846). C. Muell. Synops. i, 128 

 (1848). Hartm. Sk. fl. 5 ed. (1849). Wils. Bry. br. 298, t. 7 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 

 295 (i860), 2 ed. 354. Berk. Handb. br. m, 162, t. 14, f. 5 (1863). Lindb. in Not. ur 

 Sallsk. Fn. Fl. fenn. 1870, p. 46. Hobk. Syn. br. m. 135 (1873). Husn. Muse. gall. 

 201, t. S4 (1888). 



Physcomitrium Griffithianum Aongst. Disp. muse. Se. 10 (1842). Hartm. Sk. fl. 4 ed. 

 365 (1843)- 



Synoicous and autoicous ; plants succulent, in soft dark green tufts 

 \ — I in. high. Stems innovating below apex, thick, covered with long 



