Bryace^.1 169 [Bryum. 



Syn.— Bryum calophylUim R. Br. App. to Parry's Voy. iq6 (1824). C. Muell. Synops. i, 

 287 (1849). WiLS. Bry. brit. p. xi, t. 33 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 353 {i860), 2 ed. 424. 

 Berk. Handb. br. m. 191 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 208 (1869). Hobk. Synops. br. m. 

 Ill (1873). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 227 (18S4). Boul. Muse, de Fr. i, 273 

 (1884). HusN. Muse. gall. 238, t. 64 (i88g). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 

 305 (1892). 



Cladodium calophyllum Brid. Bry. univ. i, 622 (1826). 



Bryum intricatum Brid. op. c. 680. 



Pohlia calophylla Schwaeg. Spec. muse. 75 (1830). 



Pohlia laiifolia Bruch MSS. 



Bryum latifolmm Br. Sch. Bry. eur. Fase. 6—9, p. 19, t. 4 (1839)- C. Muell. Synops. i, 



286 {1849). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 204 (1848). 



Autoicous ; in loose incoherent soft pale green tufts ; stem short, 

 simple or branched, with few radicles. Stem-leaves remote, orbicular- 

 ovate, obtuse, comal crowded, laxly imbricated in an obtuse gemmule, 

 broadly ovate and oval-oblong, narrowed into a short obtuse acumen ; 

 all rather succulent, very concave, margin entire, plane or slightly 

 recurved, not limbate, nerve vanishing at or below apex, cells narrowly 

 rectangular and rhombic-hexagonal ; perich. bracts narrower, innermost 

 lanceolate, lax-celled. Caps, on a long straight rigid red seta, geniculate 

 at base, suddenly pendulous, shortly pyriform with a short neck, slightly 

 contracted below the mouth when dry, ferruginous brown ; peristome 

 yellow, endostome with narrow slightly perforated processes, cilia 

 rudimentary. Male infl. gemmiform, i — 2 at base of female. 



Hab. — Wet sandy ground, rare. Fr. 9 — 10. 



Sands at Southport (Marrat) ! I Ashton-under-Lyne {Gordon 1865) 1 ! Tent's Muir, Fife 

 (Howie). Coatham marshes, Yorks. (R. Barnes 1891) I ! Braunton Burrows, Devon 

 (Mitten). Sands of Barry, Dundee (Holmes 1890) ! ! 



II. BRYUM FALLAX Milde. 



Dioicous; in dingy green tufts. Stem leaves obovate, carinate, 



short pointed, limbate, nerved to apex. Caps, pyriform, with a long 



neck and small mouth, cilia of endostome rudimentary. (T. LXXII, B.) 



Syn.— Bryum fallax Milde Bry. Siles. 209 (1869). Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 426 (1876). Boul. 

 Muse, de Fr. i, 272 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall, i, 238, t. 64 (1889). 



Bryum fallens /3. fallax Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 287 (1882). 



Dioicous ; in lax soft tufts, rufous green above, short. Stem-leaves 

 obovate-spatulate, short-pointed, carinate, narrowly limbate, broadly 

 recurved, nerved to the apex; comal oblong, gradually acuminate, 

 reddish at base, twisting when dry, inner perichsetial smaller lanceolate, 

 ramuline leaves distant, oblong-lanc. ; cells rather lax, hexagono- 

 rhombic, basal hexagono-rectangular. Caps, on a long rufous seta, 



