BRYACEiE.j 1 86 [Bryum. 



29. BRYUM TURBINATUM {Hedw.) Schwaeg. 



Dioicous; in dingy green tufts. Leaves erecto-patent, ovate, 

 acuminate, faintly limbate, nerve excutrent, rufous. Caps, pendulous, 

 stoutly pyriform, ferruginous, constricted below the dilated mouth. 

 (P. LXXIV, A.) 



Syn. — Brytmi palustre cnmpllcatum rubens, capsulis turbinatis pendulis Dill. Hist. muse. 406, 

 t. 52, fig. 75 (1741) et Herbar. 



Milium turbinatum Hedw. Muse, frond, iii, 22, t. S (1792), Sp. muse, igo (1801). Hoffm. 

 Deutseh. fl. ii, 49 (1796). Brid. Muse. rec. H, P. HI, 95 (1803), Sp. muse. HI, 61 

 (1817). RoEHL. Deutseh. fl. iii, 94 (1813). 



Hypnum turbinatum Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 282 (1807). 



Bryum turbinatum Schwaeg. Suppl. I, p. II, log (1816). Brid. Bryol. univ. i, 681 (1826), 

 exel. syn. Hueben. Muse. germ. 439 (1833). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fase. 6—9, p. 65, t. 32 

 (1839). C. MuELL. Synops. i, 259 (1849). WiLS. Bry. br. 232, t. 48 (1855). Schimp. 

 Synops. 380 (1860), 2 ed. 461. Berk. Handb. br. m. 198 {1863). Milde Bry. siles. 221 

 (1869). De Not. Epilogo 379 (1869). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 113 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. 

 oest.-ung. 291 (1882). BouL. Muse. Fr. 258 (1884). Les<j. James Moss. N. Amer. 238 

 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 251, t. 69 (1889). Limpr. in Raben. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 

 436 {1893). 



Dioicous; in low dense tufts, dull green or with a rufescent tint, 

 fuscous and tomentose at base, the sterile shoots often elongated. 

 Leaves erecto-patent, the lower small, ovate shortly acuminate, upper 

 comant, gradually larger, not decurrent at base, oblong-lanceolate, 

 carinate, acute, narrowly limbate with 2 — 3 rows of very narrow cells> 

 margin reflexed nearly to base, obsoletely serrate at apex ; nerve strong 

 rufescent, excurrent in a mucro ; cells lax rhombic-hexagonal, rectangular 

 at base. Caps, pendulous with an obconic neck long as sporangium, 

 regular, stoutly pyriform, ferruginous, strongly contracted below the 

 wide mouth when dry, turbinate ; lid convex, apiculate, same colour 

 as caps. ; teeth long and yellow, cilia of endostome with long 

 appendages, papillose. Male plants in separate tufts or intermixed, 

 slender, simple, infl. subdiscoid, bracts broadly lane, innermost rounded, 

 nerveless. 



Hab. — Wet sandy and gravelly places, rare. Fr. 6 — 7. 



Scarwheel by the Irwell, Broughton, near Manehester. Fakenham, Norfolk (G. Fitt 1849) ! 

 Gravel pit at Ashton-under-Lyne {Whitehead and Scholejield 1865) ! ! Marple, Cheshire 

 {Whitehead). Clifton, Manchester {Wild 1877) ! ! Albourne, Sussex {Mitten). Shotover, 

 Oxon. {Boswell 1885) I ! Rocks in the Grwyne, Hereford and Brecon (Aug. Ley i8go) ! ! 



Var. y8. latifoliuin {Schkich.) 



Plants 2 — 5 in. high, nearly simple, in loose turgid yellowish-green tufts. 

 Leaves large, broadly ovate, rounded-obtuse, very concave, somewhat 

 cucullate; nerve lost in the apex, or excurrent. 



