Bryace^.1 176 [Bryum. 



SwARTz Muse. suec. 47 (1798). Abbot F1. bedf. 243 (1798). Hull Br. fl. P. 2, 256 

 (1799). Fl. dan. t. 880. Smith Fl. brit. 1355 (1804), Eng. Bot. 1. 1602. Turn. Muse, 

 bib. 122 (1804). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 26 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 20 (1817), Mant. 

 iiS (i8ig), Bry. univ. i, 657 (1826). ScHULTZ Fl. Starg. 340 (1806). VoiT Muse. herb. 

 85 (1812). Wahl. Fl. lapp. 361 (1812). ScHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 88 (1816). Mart. 

 Fl. cr. eri. 57 (1817). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 126, t. 29 (1818). Hartm. Skand. fl. 

 FuNCK Moost. 46, t. 2g (1821). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 769 (1821)- Hook. Fl. Scot. 

 P. 2, 150 (1821), Br. Fl. ii, 60 (1833). Hueeen. Muse. germ. 462 (1833). Mack. Fl. 

 bib. P. 2, 31 (1836). De Not. Syll. 118 (1838), Epilogo 410 (1869). Br. Sch. Bry. 

 eur. fasc. 6 — g, p. 78, t. 41 (1839). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 221 (1848). 

 C. MuELL. Synops. i, 314 (1849). WiLS. Bry. brit. 247, t. 29 (1855). Schimp. 

 Synops. 369 (i86o), 2 ed. 448. Berk. Handb. br. m. 195 (1863). Milde Bry. 

 siles. 218 (i86g). Hobk. Syn. iig (1873). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest 125 (1873), Muse, 

 gall. 243, t. 66 (i88g). Juratz. Laubm. oest.-ung. 281 (1882). Lesq. James Moss. 

 ■ N. Amer. 234 (1884). BouL. Muse, de Fr. i, 248 {1884). 



Hypnum argenteum Schrank Baiers. fl. ii, 469 (1789). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 276 

 (1807). 



Mnium argenteum Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 51 {1795). P. Beauv. Prodr. 74 (1805). 



Bryum Barnesii Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 471 (1876). 



Dioicous; in irregular laxly cohering tufts, whitish-green, silvery 

 and glossy when dry. Plants short, slender radiculose, with slender 

 julaceous branches; leaves obovate, very concave, suddenly apiculate, 

 laxly reticulate, comal oblong, gradually apiculate, the nerve vanishing 

 above the middle, margin plane, quite entire. Caps, pendulous, on a 

 seta arcuate at top, oblong, contracted below mouth when dry, rufous 

 red, blackish when old, lid convex, scarcely apiculate, orange; teeth 

 orange at base, yellowish above, incurved between the processes when 

 dry. Male plant slender, perig. bracts bi'oadly oval, apiculate. 



Hab. — Waste ground, walls and rocks ; common. Fr. 10 — 11. 



Var. j3. majus Br. Sch. 



Taller, more densely matted, glaucous green ; leaves submuticous, caps, 

 scarce elevated above the branches. 



Syn. — Bryum julaccum Schrad. Spic. fl. germ. 70 (1794). Brid. Bry. univ. i, 859, p.p. 



Bryum argenteum Var. majus Br. Sch. Bry. eur. 7g. C. Muell. Synops. i, 314. WiLS. 

 Bry. brit. 247. 



Hab. — In damp shady places. 



Var. y. lanatum (P. Beauv.). 



Compactly tufted, branches shorter, snowy-white ; leaves longly apiculate 

 or prolonged into a flexuose hair void of chlorophyl, scariose and silvery 

 white when dry. 



Syn. — Mnium lanatum P. Beauv. Prodr. 75 (1805). 



Bryum lanatum Brid. Sp. Muse. Ill, 20; Mant. 118; Bry. univ. i, 659. 

 Bryum argenteum Var. lanatum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. C. Muell. Wilson. 



Hab. — In warm stony places ; rare. 



