Bryace^.] 148 [PohJia. 



5. POHLIA CUCULLATA (Schwaeg.) Bruch. 

 Paroicous ; densely csespitose, bright green. Lower leaves broad 

 ovato-Ianc. rather obtuse, comal narrow, lane, serrate at apex. Caps, 

 on a short seta, pendulous, oval, thickish with a short neck, lid small, 



conic, obtuse. (LXVII, B.) 



Syn. — Bryum cucuUatum Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. 11, 94, t. 68 (1816). Erid. Sp. muse. Ill, 14 



(1817), Mant. 117 (i8ig), Bry. univ. i," 649 (1826). Wallr. F1. cr. germ, i, 239 (1831). 



Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 6—9, p. 27, t. 7 (1839). C. Muell. Synops. i, 328 (1849). 



BouL. Muse, de Fr. i, 286 (1884). 

 Pohlia cucuUata Bruch in Flora 1826, p. 276: Schwaeg. Sp. muse, i, 73 (1830). Hueben. 



Muse. germ. 481 (1833). De Not. Syllab. no (1838). 

 Pohlia Icetevirens De Not. Mant. muse. n. 7 (1836), Syllab. in (1838). 



Webera cucuUata Schimp. Coroll. 66 (1856), Synops. 236 (i860), 2 ed. 397. Milde Bry. 

 siles. 202 (i86g). De Not. Epilog0 430 (1869). Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 252 (1882). 

 Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 218 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 229, t. 62 (1889). Limpr. 

 in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 253 (1892). 



Lamprophyllmn cucuUatum Lindb. Rev. crit. icon. fl. dan. 87 (1871). 



Paroicous ; densely csespitose, fastigiate, bright green. Stems 

 generally decumbent at base, erect, simple or sparingly branched, 

 radiculose. Lower leaves subimbricated, ovate, concave, muticous, 

 entire, upper longer, narrow lane, with the margin scarcely revolute, 

 faintly serrate at apex, and not unfrequently cucullato-incurved, all very 

 soft, subopake, with thickish vanishing nerve, cells rhombic, narrow, 

 elongated. Caps, pendulous, on a shortish flexuose red seta hooked at 

 top, thickish, with the neck shortly pyriform, when dry and empty not 

 contracted below the mouth, but with the orifice narrowed, soft, 

 badious, when old black-brown ; lid small orange, conic, obtuse ; teeth 

 narrow, shorter, yellowish, inner very slender pale, cilia fugacious. 

 Hab. — Damp ground on mountains, rare. Fr. 8. 



Mountains in Arran (Borrer) I Ben Attow, Ross-shire (Dixon 1883) I I 



This moss is very near P. nutans, but is scarcely glossy, the leaves often 

 cucullate at apex, their cells looser and thin-walled. 



6. POHLIA NUTANS [Schnh.) Lindb. 

 Paroicous; densely csespitant, shining green. Lower leaves ovato- 

 lanc, entire, upper gradually longer, lineal-lane, serrate at apex. Caps, 

 pendulous, oval-pyriform with a wide mouth, lid mammillate. 

 (T. LXVII, C.) 



Syn. — Bryum trichodes Icete-virens, capitulis cernuis oblongis Dill. Hist. muse, ^qi, t. i;o, f. 

 61 A-B, et Herb. ^ 3y , i . 



Mnium pyriforme fi. Weiss Crypt. Goett. 153 (1770). 



Bryum nutans Schree. Spie. fl. Lips. 81 (1771). Swartz Muse. suec. 46 (1798). Roth 

 Fl. germ iii, P. I, 252 (1800). Sm. Fl. brit. 1347 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1240. Turn. 

 Muse. hib. 117 (1804). VoiT Muse. herb, go (1812). Mart. Fl. cr. erl. 60 (1817). 

 Hook Tayl. Muse. br. 123, t. 29 (1818). Hook. Fl. seot. P. II, 151 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 61 

 (1833). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 771 (1821). Mack. Fl. hib. P. 2, 32 (1836). De Not. 

 Syllab. 134 (1838). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc, 6—9, p. 34, t. 12 (1839). Rabenh. 



