Bryace^.] 170 \Bryum. 



hamato-arcuate above, inclined or pendulous, pyriform, castaneous, the 

 neck long as sporangium and sulcate when dry; annulus broad, lid 

 small, mammillate, peristome pale yellow, teeth lineal-subulate, endo- 

 stome united to peristome for half its length, processes long as teeth, 

 gaping widely, cilia short and rudimentary. Male plants small, simple, 

 the infl. terminal, gemmiform, enclosed in the comal leaves, inner bracts 

 laxly areolate, without nerve or limb. 



Hab. — Wet sandy heaths, rare. Fr. 7 — 8. 



Tilgate forest, Sussex (Mitten 1846) ! ! Snowdon (Mitten). 



This nioss is closely allied to B, pallens and has probably been confounded 

 with that species ; it may be known by the abortive cilia of the endostome 

 and broad short-pointed leaves. 



Sect. 3. EUBRYUM. Leaf-cells hexagono-rhombic ; endostome quite 

 free, the basal membrane elongated, with long processes and 2 — 4 equally 

 long cilia, appendiculate at joints. 



12. BR YUM INTERMEDIUM Brid. 



Synoicous ; csespitose. Leaves erecto-patent, ovato-lanceolate, the 

 margin reflexed, nerve excurrent. Caps, pendulous, narrow pyriform, 

 long-necked, lid apiculate. (T. LXX, F.) 



SvN. — Pohlia intermedia Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 144, t. 2, f. 12 (1803). Schultz FI. starg. 

 254 (1806). 



Hypnum intermedium Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 283 (1807). 



Webera intermedia Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 67, t. 75 (1816). Brid. Sp. muse. Ill, 37 

 (1817). HoRNSCH. Flora ii, 102 (1819). Funck Moost. 39, t. 25 (1821). 



Bryum turbinatum var. Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 122 (1818). 



Bryum intermedium Brid. Mant. 120 (1819). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. Fasc. 6 — g, p. 47, t. ig 

 (i83g). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 212 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. i, 278 (i84g). 

 WiLS. Bry. br. 236, t. 4g (1855). Schimp. Synops. 356 (i860), 2 ed. 428. Berk. Handb. 

 br. m. 192 (1863). MiLDE Bry. siles. 210 (i86g)- Hobk. Synops. 116 (1873). Juratz. 

 Laubm. oester.-ung. 265 (1882). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 228 (1884). Boul. 

 Muse, de Fr. i, 26g (1884). HusN. Muse. gall. 247, t. 67 (1889). 



Bryum Webera intermedia Brid. Bry. univ. i, 632 (1826). 



Bryum pallescens /?. intermedium Schwaeg. Sp. muse, i, 61 (1830). Hueben. Muse, 

 germ. 446 (1833). 



Synoicous; in wide deep green tufts, densely radiculose at base, 

 stems short, branched with short innovations. Lower leaves ovato- 

 upper oblongo- and elongato-lanc, nerve red at base, excurrent in a 

 long remotely denticulate point, margin entire, subrevolute, with a very 

 narrow border. Caps, horizontal and inclined, from a neck as long as 

 sporangium, oblongo- and elongato-pyriform, slightly incurved, rufous- 

 brown or fuscous, lid convex-conic, acute shining. Annulus separating 



