Bryace^.] 185 [Bryum. 



Taller ; caps, larger, inclined, on a longer seta ; lid smaller. 



Syn. — Bryum speciosum Voit in Sturm Deutsch. Fl. II, Pt. 14 (1813). 

 Bryum fallens ^, microstomum Bry. eur. fasc. 6 — g, p. 6g (1839). 

 Bryum palUns R, speciosum Schimp. Synops. 377. 



Hab. — Wet hollows in mountains. Midhill near Killin {Holt 1880) ! ! Ben 

 More, Loch Lomond {Hunt 1865) ! 



A very variable species, readily known by its red tint, pale long-necked 

 caps., not contracted below the narrow mouth, blackish brown when old. It 

 differs from B. cemuum by the red colour and larger lid as well as the 

 endostome. 



28. BRYUM DTIVALII Voit. 



Dioicous ; in lax soft tufts. Leaves distant, ovato-lanc, longly 

 decurrent, patulous, entire, nerve vanishing below apex. Caps, 

 pendulous, obovate with a long neck, strongly contracted below mouth. 

 (T. LXXIII, F.) 



Syn. — Bryum Duvalii Voit in Sturm Deutschl. Fl. II, 12 (1811). Brid. Mant. 118 (i8ig), Bry. 

 univ. i, 679 {1826). HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 436 (1833). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 6 — g, 

 p. 64, t, 31 (1839). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 216 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. i,26o 

 (^1848). Schimp. Synops. 37g (i860), 2 ed. 458. De Not. Epil. 378 (i86g). Milde 

 Bry. siles. 220 (i86g). Hobk. Synops. 114 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. oest.-ung. 288 

 (1882). BouLAY Muse. Fr. i, 257 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 238 (1884J. 

 HusN. Muse. gall. 250, t. 68 (i88g). Limpr. in Raben. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 429 (1893). 



Mnium Duvalii Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 126, t. 79 (1816). Brid. Sp. muse. Ill, 59 

 {1817). FuNCK Moost. 50, t. 32 (1821). 



Bryum ventricosum Var. Schwaeg. Sp. muse. 54 (1830). 



Dioicous ; in large, soft lax tufts, pale green or tinged with purple. 



Stems elongated, with long slender innovations. Leaves distant, 



patulous, broadly ovato-lanc, strongly decurrent, nearly plane, quite 



entire, the nerve vanishing below the short point ; when dry strongly 



contracted and incurved, dingy green, cells lax rhombo-hexagonal 



above, elongate-rectangular at base, the two marginal rows very 



narrow and somewhat incrassate so as to form a faint border. Caps. 



on a long slender red seta, pendulous, obovate-oblong with a long 



neck, ferruginous or fuscous, strongly contracted below the mouth ; 



lid mamillar, of the same colour ; peristome pale yellow. Male infl. 



subdiscoid. 



Hab. — Wet moorlands and by streams on mountains. Fr. 8. 



Ben Lawers (W. BcH i860) ! ! Clova (Fergusson). 'Btz.emax {Whitehead 1876)!! Ben 

 More (Stirton). Glas Meal (Hunt). Hartfell and Helvellyn. Howgill Fells, Yorks. 

 (Binstead 1886)!! Dollywaggon Pike, Westmoreland (Binstead 1885)!! Waterford, 

 Ireland {Madden). Draicemire, Berwick (J. Anderson). Stromness {Stirton). 



A very striking moss by its dingy curling leaves, strongly decurrent 

 and distant from each other ; it very seldom bears fruit, and has not been 

 found fertile here. 



