Bryace^] 184 [Bryutn. 



not decurrent, with blunt points, thinner nerve and long narrow marginal 

 cells. The fruit is very rare and our plants are quite sterile ; it is essentially 

 a plant of the Mediterranean region. 



27. BRYUM FALLENS Swartz. 



Dioicous ; in brownish green or reddish tufts. Leaves lax, ovate- 

 acuminate decurrent, narrowly limbate, nerve slightly excurrent. Caps, 

 long-necked pyriform, slightly incurved, pale brown. (T. LXXIII, E.) 



Syn. — Bryutn nitidum,foliis serpilli angustioribus, minus Dill. Cat. Giss. 228 (1718). 



Bryutn annotinum laticeolaiutn pellucidum, capsulis oblongis pendulis. Dill. Hist. muse. 

 399, t. 50, f. 68 (1741) et Herb. 



Bryum pallens Swartz Muse. suae. 47 et 98, t. 4, f. 12 (1799). Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 96 

 (1813). ScHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, III, t. 72 (1816). Brid. Sp. muse. Ill, 9 (1817), 

 Mant. 117 (1819), Bryol. univ. i, 642 (1826). Funck Moostaseh. 49, t. 31 (1821). 

 HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 440 (1833). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. Fase. 6 — 9, p. 68, t. 33 (1839). 

 Rabenh, D. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 215 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. i, 256 (1849). WiLS. Bry. 

 br. 233, t. 29 (1855). ScHiMP. Synops. 376 (i860), 2 ed. 456. Berk. Handb. br. m. 198 

 (1863). De Not. Epilogo 382 (1869). Milde Bry. siles. 220 (1869). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 

 114 (1873). Husn. Mouss. nord-ouest 126 (1873), Muse. gall. 251, t. 68. Juratz. 

 Laubm. oest.-ung. 286 (1882). RouL. Muse, de Fr. i, 260 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. 

 N. Amer. 237 (1884). Limpr. in Raben. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 433 (1893). 



Pohlia pallens Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 145 (1803). 



Hypnum pallens Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 286 (1807). 



Bryutn turbinatum Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 122, t. 29 (1818). 



Bryum aitenuatum Brid. Bry. univ. i, 638 (1826). 



Ptyckostoinum cernuum Hueben. Muse. germ. 493 (1833). 



Bryutn origatium Bosw. in Naturalist 1879 p. 33. Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 166 (1884). 



Dioicous ; in soft lax or dense tufts, dingy olive-green, wine- 

 coloured or rosy purple, dark brown at base. Stems short, with a few 

 innovations at summit. Leaves erecto-patent, lower remote ovato- 

 lanc, decurrent, upper crowded, oblong and elongate, acuminate, 

 all with a narrow brownish limb, of 2 — 3 rows of incrassate cells ; 

 margin entire, plane above, revolute in. lower half; cells lax, rhombo- 

 hexagonal, at base hexagono-rectangular, nerve strong, reddish, ending 

 at apex or shortly excurrent. Caps, on a long brownish-red seta, 

 horizontal or inclined, cinereous or yellowish, castaneous when old, 

 pyriform with a long somewhat incurved neck, scarcely contracted 

 below the mouth ; lid rather large, apiculate, yellow shining. Peristome 

 yellow, densely articulated, endostome paler, when dry projecting 

 between the teeth. Male plant more slender, infl. gemmiform, the 

 bracts lanceolate, divergent. 



Hab. — Rocks and stones by streams and wet ground. Fr. 6. 



Var. j8. speciosum {Voit) Schimp. 



