Bryace^.] 150 [Pohlia. 



Syn. — Webera bicolor H. Hsch. in Flora i8ig, p. 102. 

 Brytim nutans y. bicolor Bry. eur. &c. 



Hab. — Alpine moorlands. 



This neat moss varies greatly in size and habit, according to season and 

 locality, so that the numerous varieties are scarcely tenable ; longiseta is a 

 very elegant plant, with a pedicel often 3 in. long. 



7. POHLIA CARNEA (L.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; laxly csespitose, pale green with a red stem. Comal 

 leaves long, narrowly lane, obtusely serrate at apex, laxly areolate, 

 nerve vanishing. Seta thick, bent at neck of caps., which is pendulous, 

 ovate-oblong, wide-mouthed when dry ; lid convex, teeth red. 

 (T. LXVII, D.) 



Syn. — Bryum nitidum, foliis serpylU pelhicidis, angustionbus re/lexis, capitulis subrotundis 



camel coloris in pediculis brevioribus Dill, in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 102, n.53 (1724). 

 Bryum lanceolattim pellucidum, capsulis rotundis pendulis carneis Dill. Hist. muse. 400, 



t. 50, f. 6g (1741), et Herb. 

 Bryum carneum L. Sp. plant. 1122 (1753), Syst. nat. ii, 702, Syst. veg. 949. HuDS. Fl. 



angl. 414 {1762). Neck. Meth. muse. 202 (1771). With. Bot. arr. ii, 679 (1776). Relh. 



Fl. cant. 406 (1785). ViLL. PI. Dauph. iii, 886 (1786). Roth Fl. germ, i, 474 (1788). 



ScHRAD. Spic. fl. germ. 70 (1794). Hull Br. fl. P. 2, 265 (1799). Swartz Muse. suee. 



47(1798). Brid. Muse. ree. n, P. in, 24 (1803), Sp. muse, in, 17 {1817), Mant. 118 



(1819), Bry. univ. i, 652 (1826). Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 360; Fl. brit. 1352 (1804). Turn. 



muse. hib. 119 (1804). Schultz Fl. starg. 359 (1806). Roehl. Deutseh. fl. iii, gi 



(1813). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 91 (i8i6). Mart. Fl. er. erl. 53 (1817). Hook. 



Tayl. muse. br. 119, t. 29 (1818). Gray nat. arr. i, 789 (1821). Funck Moost, 47, t. 



29 (1821). Hook. Fl. seot. P. II, 150 (1821), Brit. Fl. ii, 59 (1833). Hueben. muse. 



germ.458 {1833). Mack. Fl. hib. P. 2, 31 (1836). De Not. Syllab. 120 (1838). Br. Sch. 



Bry. eur. fase. 6— g, p. 42, t. 16 (1839). Rabenh. Deutseh. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 210 (1848). 



C. MuELL. Synops. i, 294 (1849). WiLS. Bry. br. 227, t. 29 (1855). Hobk. Synops. no 



(1873). HuSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 121 (1873). BouL. Muse, de Fr. i, 282 (1884). 

 Bryum delicatulum Hedw. Muse. fr. i, 52, t. 20 (1787), Sp. muse. 73. Timm Fl. meg. u. 



839 (1788). 

 Mnium carneum Swartz Meth. muse. 366 (1787). Hoffm. Deutseh. fl. ii, 51 (1795). 



P. Beauv. Prodr. 74 (1805). 



Hypnum carneum Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 278 (1807). 



Webera carnea Schimp. Coroll. 67 (1856), Synops. 341 (i86o), 2 ed. 405. Berk. Handb. 



Br. m. 202 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 204 {1869). De Not. Epil. 422 (1869). Juratz. 



Laubm. oester.-ung. 258 (1882). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 221 (1884). Hobk. 



Synops. 2 ed. 155 (1884). Husn. muse. gall. 231, t. 62 (1889). 



Pohlia carnea Lindb. Muse. Seand. 17 (1879). 



Mniobryum carneum Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 275 (1892). 



Dioicous ; gregarious or laxly csespitose, pale green, nearly simple. 

 Stem red, 3 — 6 lines long. Leaves distant, accrescent upward, lane, 

 straight, the comal longish, erect, lineal-lane, obtusely serrate at apex, 

 pale green, subnitid, nerve red, vanishing; cells laxer, rhomboid- 

 hexagonal. Caps, on a thickish red succulent seta arcuate at summit, 

 inclined and pendulous, from a short solid neck, ovate - oblong, 

 pachydermous, fleshy, pale red, when dry retracted, subhemispherical, 



