Bryace^.] 167 [Bryum. 



Autoicous or rarely synoicous, in small irregular tufts. Stem short, 

 simple or sparingly branched, the branches short, usually with several 

 long flagelliform innovations. Leaves rather distant, patent, curved and 

 flexuose when dry, ovato-acuminate, margin plane above, a little reflexed 

 below, narrowly limbate, remotely serrate at apex ; nerve excurrent in a 

 short point, cells rather lax. Caps, on a long straight seta, suddenly 

 pendulous, obovate or subgloboso-pyriform, brown ; lid small convex 

 apiculate, long persistent ; endostome membrane adhering ; processes 

 free narrow scarce perforate, cilia rudimentary. Male inil. terminal, in 

 the comal leaves, minute subglobose, bracts 3, broadly obovate, suddenly 

 apiculate, outer one nerved. 



Hab. — Sandy or muddy ground by the sea or streams, rare. Fr. 8—9. 



Tent's moor, Fife (Ogilvie 1853) ! Shore at Southport {Marrat and Wilson) ! ! Taunton, 

 Ashton.under-Lyne {Whitehead and Schofield 1865)!! N. Bull, Dublin {Orr i860). 

 Portmarnock and Malahide. Coatham marshes, Yorks. (R. Barnes iSgi) ! ! 



8. BRYUM CERNUUM {Sw. 



Autoicous ; csespitose, green. Leaves oval-lane, plane above, the 

 nerve excurrent. Caps, pendulous, irregular clavate, mouth small and 

 oblique. (T. LXX, C.) 



Syn. — Didymodon cernuus Swartz. Muse. suec. 28, t. 1, f. 2 (1798). 



Pohlia uliginosa Bruch MSS. 



Cladodium uliginosum Brid. Bry. univ. i, 841 (1827). 



Bryum uliginosum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 6 — g, p. 18, t. 4 (1839). C. Muell. Synops. i, 

 271 (1849). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 203 (1848). Wils. Bry. br. 234, t. 48 

 {1855).-' ScHiMP. Synops, 347 (i860), 2 ed. 425. Berk. Handb.br. m. 189 (1863). Milde 

 Bry. siles. 208 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 115 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. oest.-ung. 264 

 (1882). HusN. Muse. gall, i, 236, t. 63 {1889). Lesq. James M9SS. N. Amer. 

 227 (1884). 



Bryum cernuum Lindb. Muse, scand. 16 (1879). 



Autoicous ; in loose olivaceous green tufts, the stems branched with 

 short innovations, densely radiculose. Lower leaves ovate acuminate, 

 comal ovate-oblong and elongate lanceolate, with a narrow brownish- 

 yellow border of 2 — 3 rows of narrow cells, margin reilexed in the lower 

 half, distantly serrate at apex, shortly cuspidate with the brownish 

 excurrent nerve, cells rather large, soft. Caps, on a long reddish seta 

 arcuate above, horizontal or inclined, elongato-pyriform, somewhat 

 incurved and prominent on the back, pale fuscous or yellowish brown 

 when old, the mouth small and rather oblique, not contracted below it 

 when dry ; lid very small, orange, annulus broad ; processes of endostome 

 cleft along the keel, cilia imperfect. Male infl. near the female, 

 gemmiform. 



