Bryace^.] 175 ■ [Bryum. 



Mnium caspiticium Hedw. Fund. II, 94 (1782). Relh. F1. cant. 400 (1785). Roth F1. 

 germ, i, 475 (1788). Koffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 50 (1795). Abbot F1. bedf. 235 (1798). 

 Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 96 (1803). P. Beauv. Prodr. 94 (1805). Schultz Fl. starg. 

 345 (1806). RoEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 95 (1813). 



Dioicous ; in small pale green subsericeous tufts, interwoven with 

 ferruginous tomentum at base. Lower leaves remote, minute lane, 

 upper forming a laxly imbricated coma, suddenly larger ovato- and 

 oblongo-lanc, longly cuspidate with the excurrent nerve, branch leaves 

 crowded, ovato-lanc, all concave with the margin entire and reflexed ; 

 the marginal cells long and narrow. Caps, oblongo- and elongato- 

 pyriform, sometimes unequal and ventricose, inclined or pendulous, 

 fuscous, wide-mouthed when dry, lid large mammillar, rufous, glossy ; 

 teeth yellow, processes gaping, short and broad, cilia 2 — 3 with long 

 appendages. Male plants slender, with annual shoots. 



Hab. — Walls, rocks and dry banks, common. Fr. 5 — 6. 



Var. /3. Kunzei {Hovnsch.). 



Densely csespitose, branches julaceous, leaves imbricated, broadly' ovate, 

 suddenly cuspidate with the longly excurrent nerve ; caps, fuscescent. 



Syn. — Bryum Kunzei Hornsch. in Flora ii, go (1819). Beid. Bry. univ. i, 661. 

 B. caspiticium Var. p. imbricatum Schimp. Bry. eur. 70, Synops. 368. 



Hab. — Dry turf and walls. 



Little Doward hill, Hereford (Rev. A. Ley 1873) ! 



A common species, but variable in the form of the capsule, though 

 exhibiting great uniformity in the silky green leaves. 



18. BRYUM AUGENTETJM L. 



Dioicous ; in whitish-green silvery tufts, with slender julaceous 

 branches. Leaves imbricated obovate, very concave, apiculate, nerve 

 ceasing below apex. Caps, pendulous, oval-oblong, lid mammillato. 

 (T. LXXII, C.) 



Syn.— M«s£MS argenteus capitulis reflexis Ray Synops. 2 ed. 34, u. 5 (1696). 



Bryum capitulis subrotundis reflexis, cauliculis teretibus argenteis Dill. Cat. Giss. 226 



(1718), et in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 100 (1724). 

 Bryum pendulum julaceum argenteum et sericeum Dill. Hist. muse. 392, t. 30, fig. 62 



(1741), et Herbar. 

 Bryum argenteum L. Sp. PI. 1120 (1753), Syst. Nat. ii, 700. Huds. Fl. angl. 413 (1762). 



Weiss Cr. goett. 199 (1770). Neck. Meth. muse. 201 (1771). With. Bot. arr. br. veg. 



ii, 678 (1776). Lightf. Fl. scot, ii, 735 (i777)- Web. Fl. goett. 112 (1778). Hedw. 



Fund. II, 94 (1782), Sp. Muse. 181 (1801). Relh. Fl. cant. 406 (1785). Roth. Fl. 



germ, i, 473 (1788). Sibth. Fl. oxon. 293 (1794). Curt. Fl. Lond. fasc. 3, t. 67. 



