Bryace^.] 15a [Pohlia. 



below the mouth ; annulus compound, Hd conical, pointed, orange ; 

 peristome yellowish, membrane of endostome half as high as the teeth, 

 processes gaping, cilia 2, rough. 



Male infl. terminal, gemmiform, bracts spreading, lanceolate, 

 pointed. Sterile branches with numerous red axillar gemmae, by which 

 the plant is commonly propagated. 



Hab. — Sandstone cuttings and sandy banks. Fr. 5 — 6. 



Var. yS. tenuifolia Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 401. 



Slender, the sterile branches longish and generally free from gemm^ ; 

 upper leaves oblongo-lanc, sharply serrate at apex, lower subpatent, ovato- 

 lanc, the cells laxer ; caps, pale with narrower teeth. 



Hab. — Wet sandy places with the type. 



Var. y. angustifolia Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 401. 



Sterile branches numerous slender flexuose ; comal leaves longer, 

 narrower, lanc.-subulate, obsoletely serrate at apex, the nerve subexcurrent, 

 the lower narrowly lane, cells thin and narrow. 



Hab. — Sandy bogs near Warrington {Wilson). 



The fruit is rare, but the gemmiparous state is frequent', and the gemmae 

 in wet places often pass into small leafy bulbils, which are readily detached 

 from the plants. 



9. POHLIA LTJDWIGII (Spreng.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; tufted, from a decumbent base, erect, red below, deep 

 green above. Leaves decurrent, broadly obovate, obtuse, comal oblongo- 

 lanc, serrulate at apex, recurved at margin; nerve vanishing. Caps, 

 inclined, oval-oblong ; lid mammillar. (T. LXVIII, B.) 



Syn.— Bo""" Ludwigii Spreng. MSS. Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 95, t. 68 (1816). Brid. 

 Bry. univ. i, 647 p.p. (1826). Hook. Br. fl. 59 (1833). WiLS. Eng. Hot. Suppl. t. 2855 

 (1841), Bry. br. 228, t. 47 (1855). BouL. Muse, de Fr. i, 279 {1884). 



Bryum Weigelii Brid. Bry. univ. i, 647 (1826). 



Webera Breidleri Juratz. Verb. k.k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 1870, p. 168 c. ic. Laubm. 



oest.-ung. 255 (1882). 

 Webera Ludwigii Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 402 (1876). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. f], Laubm. 



ii, 256 (1892). 



Bryum laxifolium Warnst. in Hedwigia 1887, p. 53. 

 Pohlia Ludwigii Lindb. 



Dioicous; soft laxly casspitant, i — 2 in. high, red or blackish at 

 base, dark green above, scarcely glossy when dry. Stem and branches 

 purple erect, slender, sparingly radiculose ; lower leaves remote, broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, entire, more crowded upward, erecto-patent, longly 



