Bryace^.] 182 [Bryum. 



hooked at apex ; caps, from a slender neck, elongato-pyriform, rufescent 



or fuscous, not constricted at mouth ; lid hemispherical, mucronate, 



glossy, teeth of per. yellowish, lanceolate, processes of end, lanceolate, 



attenuate, gaping at the keel, cilia in pairs, appendiculate. 



Hab.— Wet mountain rocks ; rare. Fr. 7 — 8. 



Devonshire (Herb. Hooker). Ben Nevis (Stlrton 1866) ! Sleddale Forest, Westmoreland, 

 on a wet rock (Binstead 1886) ! ! 



Closely resembling B. alpinum, but differing in the dull olivaceous colour, 

 and broader, more concave and more obtuse leaves incurved at point. All 

 the British specimens are sterile. 



25. BRYTJM ALPINTJM Huds. 



Dioicous ; in dense glossy purple tufts, the stems but little branched. 

 Leaves imbricated, straight, lanceolate, recurved at margin, nerve 

 reaching point or excurrent. Caps, pendulous, oblong-pyriform, dark 

 red, constricted below mouth. (T. LXXIII, D.) 



Syn. — Bryum hypnoides pendulum sericeum, coma insigni atro-rubente Dill. Hist. Muse. 394, 

 t. 50, f. 64, A — C (1741), et Herbar. 



Bryum alflnum HuDS. Fl. angl. 415 (1762). L. Mant. ii, 309 (1767), Syst. Veg. 949. 

 With. Bet. arr. br. Veg. ii, 679 (1776). Lightf. Fl. scot, ii, 738 (1777). Swartz 

 Muse. suec. 47 (1798). Hull Br. fl. P. 2, 254 (1799). Brid. Muse. rec. H, P. HI, 30 

 (1803), Sp. muse, in, 23 (1817), Mant. 118 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 663 (1826). Sm. Fl. brit. 

 1353 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1623. Turn. Muse. hib. 125 (1804). Wahlen. Fl. lapp. 360 

 (1812). RoEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 91 (1813). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. H. 98, t. 73 (1816). 

 Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 124, t. 28 (1818). Hartm. Skand. fl. Hook. Fl. Scot. P. 2, 

 151 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 62 (1833). FuNCK Moost. 47, t. 30 (1821). Gray Nat. arr. br. 

 pL i, 771 (1S21). Hueben. Muse. germ. 450 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 128 (1838), 

 Epilogo 404 (1869). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 6— g, p. 76, t. 39 (1839). Rabenh. 

 Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 220 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. i, 285 (1849). Wils. Bry. br. 

 231, t. 28 (1855). ScHiMP. Synops. 366 (i860), 2 ed. 440. Berk. Handb. br. m. 194 

 {1863). MiLDE Bry. siles. 215 (1869). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 113 (1873). Husn. Mouss. 

 nord-ouest 124 (1873), Muse. gall. 246, t. 67 (1889). Juratz. Laubm. oest.-ung. 276 

 (1882). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 233 (1884). Boul. Muse, de Fr. i, 252 (1884). 



Mnium alpinum Swartz Meth. muse. 366 {1787). P. Beauv. Prodr. 73 (1805). 



Dioicous ; in dense tufts or expanded patches, purple, chocolate 

 coloured or brownish green, shining with a golden-green gloss. Stems 

 erect or decumbent at base, slightly radiculose below, rigid, simple or 

 branched, uniformly dense-leaved. Leaves erecto-patent, straight, 

 imbricated when dry, lane, and oblong-lanc, more or less acute, carinate, 

 entire or obsoletely serrate at apex, margin reflexed, nerve strong, purple, 

 ending at point or excurrent in a short mucro, cells more elongated 

 linear and incrassate. Seta arcuate above, caps, pendulous, coriaceous, 

 obovate-oblong and obconic-pyriform, with a longish neck, crimson, 

 blackish purple when old, slightly contracted below the mouth when 

 dry ; lid mammillar, shining ; teeth of per. pale ferruginous, endostome 

 yellow, cilia 3 — 4, appendiculate. 

 Hab, — Moist alpine rocks ; not uncommon. Fr. 6 — 7. 



