BryacevE.] i68 [Bryum. 



Hab. — Boggy ground, sandy banks and by streams. Fr. 8. 



Manchester and Southport (Wood 1843) ! Ashton, Prestwich and Bowdon (Hunt 1863) ! 

 Grange (Htmt 1868) ! Inverarnan (Hunt 1866) ! Oxford (Boswell) ! ! Hattersley, 

 Cheshire (Whitehead). Dublin. Sea coast at Whitby and Saltburn, Yorks. 



A fine moss readily known by its long seta and pale gibbous capsule 

 with oblique mouth, by which it differs from B. pallens, a species having 

 capsules of the same ashy colour, but with cilia on the endostome. 

 Lindberg has identified it with original specimens of D. cernuus from Swartz. 



9. BEYUM MAERATII Wils. 



Autoicous ; in small lax tufts. Leaves spreading, elliptic, concave, 

 muticous, entire, nerve vanishing below apex. Caps, small pendulous, 

 subglobose, endostome adherent. (T. LXX, D.) 



Syn. — Bryum Marratii WiLS. Bry. brit. p. xi, t. 32 (1855). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 62 — 64, 

 Suppl. (1855). ScHiMP. Synops. 354 (i860), 2 ed. 423. Berk. Handb. br. m. igi 

 (1863). MiLDE Bry. siles. 209 (i86g). Linde. Bot. notis. 1868 p. 26G. Hoek. Syn. 

 br. m. Ill (1873). HusN. Muse. gall, i, 238, t. 64 (i88g). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. 

 fl. Laubm. ii, 287 (1892). 



Autoicous ; in small lax irregular tufts, short and slender with 

 numerous innovations. Leaves erecto-patent, oblongo and elongato- 

 elliptic, obtuse, entire, very concave, incurved at apex when dry so as 

 to be somewhat boat-shaped, nerve slender, vanishing below apex, cells 

 above hexagono-rhombic, at base rectangular, narrowed at margin. 

 Caps, on a slender subflexuose red seta arcuate at apex, pendulous or 

 inclined, pachydermous, rufous, minute subglobose with a short neck 

 defluent into the seta, when old, globose with a small mouth ; lid small 

 conic, acutely apiculate, reddish, annulus broad ; teeth of peristome 

 deep red, connivent, endostome adherent, the cilia abortive. Male infl. 

 terminal on a short branch, gemmiform, bracts small, ovato-acuminate. 



HAB.^Wet sandy places by the sea, rare. Fr. g. 



Sands at Southport (Marrat 1854) ! Tents Muir, Fife (Howie) I ! Drigg, Cumberland 

 (Rev. A. Ley 1881). Coatham marshes, Yorks. (R. Barnes 1891 ! ! 



Grows in company with B. calophyllum and resembling that species, but 

 difiering in the small round caps., red peristome and narrower obtuse 

 leaves. 



16. BRYUM CALOPHYLLUM R. Br. 



Autoicous J loosely tufted. Leaves erecto-patent, concave, 

 roundish-ovate, nerved almost to apex. Caps, elliptic-oblong, 

 pendulous, lid short, apiculate. (T. LXX, E.) 



