Bryace^.] i88 [Bryum. 



Dioicous ; in dense olivaceous green tufts, interwoven with brown 

 tomentum. Stems erect, 2 — 6 in. high, red, rigid, slightly branched. 

 Leaves accrescent upward, comant, erecto-patent, decurrent at base, 

 oblong-lanc, gradually apiculate, slightly serrulate at point, nerve 

 strong, rufous, prolonged into the point ; margin reflexed, with a yellow 

 limb of 3 — 5 rows of narrow cells, upper cells incrassate, rhombo- 

 hexagonal, basal red, rectangular. Capsule on a long purple seta, 

 pendulous, ferruginous, elongate-obconic, often slightly curved upward 

 and subventricose beneath, constricted below the mouth when dry ; lid 

 of the same colour, mamillar, glossy 5 peristome pale red. Male infl. 

 subdiscoid-gemmiform, the bracts broadly ovato-cordate, acuminate, 

 nerved. 



Hab. — Moorland bogs and wet rocks by streams, not uncommon. 

 Fr. 6—7. 



Var. jS. compactum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. 1. c. 



Stems short, compactly tufted. Capsule shorter, obovate, with a more 

 pointed lid. 



Hab. — On the higher mountains. Southport {Whitehead 1863) ! 



This moss often grows in large patches, and when loaded with fruit has 

 a very beautiful appearance. On moorland banks where water is always 

 trickling down, it may generally be found in perfection, and is a more robust 

 plant than B. himum, from which it is best distinguished by the dioicous 

 inflorescence and more or less ventricose capsule. 



31. BRYUM NEODAMENSE Itzigs. 



Dioicous ; in lax brownish green tufts. Leaves lax, remote, upper 

 obovate-oblong, somewhat cucullate, limbate, nerved to apex. Caps, 

 pendulous, obovate, constricted below mouth. (T. LXXIV, C.) 



Syn. — Bryum neodamense Itzigsohn in Flora 1841, I, p. 360. C. Mbell. Synops. i, 258 

 (1848). HoBK. Synops. 112(1873). Schimp. Synops. 2 6(1.460(1876). Juratz. Laubm. 

 oest.-ung. 2go (1882). BoUL. Muse. Fr. i, 260 (1884). HusN. Muse. gall. 250, t. 68 

 (1889). LiMPR. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 427 (1893). 



Bryum pseudotriquetrum 8 cavifoUum Schimp. CoroU. 76 (1856), Synops. 376 (i860). 

 MiLDE Bry. siles. 219 (1869). 



Bryum cavifoUum WiLS. MSS. 



Dioicous ; in tall lax brownish green tufts, interwoven with brown 

 radicles. Stems slender, lax-leaved, red, dense leaved at apex. Lower 

 leaves small, distant, ovate, obtuse, the nerve ending below apex, upper 

 comant, larger, patent, decurrent, obovate and elliptic-oblong, very 



