Bryace^.] 189 \Bryum. 



concave, twisted when dry, nerved nearly to apex, or in the uppermost 

 excurrent in a point ; margin erect entire, limbate with 3 — 6 rows of 

 narrow yellowish cells, upper leaf cells rhombo-hexagonal, basal 

 rectangular. Caps, on a long seta, pendulous, brown, obovato-obconic, 

 the neck shorter than sporangium, constricted below the mouth when 

 dry, lid shortly apiculate. Male plant as in B. ventricosum. 



Hab. — Wet heaths near the sea ; rare. Fr. 7. 



South sands at Southport (Dr. Wood 1839) ! ! Sands of Barrie, Dundee {Rev. jf. Fergusson 

 1871) ! 



This moss, if not a very elegant one, has quite a distinct habit not much 

 like that of B. ventricosum, and may easily be recognised by its broad obtuse 

 entire leaves. The fruit is very rare and has only once been found in 

 England. 



32. BRYUM CYCLOPHYLIUM (Schwaeg.) Br. Sch. 



Dioicous ; in soft bright green tufts. Leaves distant, broadly 

 obovate, entire, concave, obtuse, nerve vanishing below apex. Caps, 

 pendulous shortly pyriform, lid large, yellow. (T. LXXV, D.) 



Syn. — Mnium cyclophyllum Schwaeg. Suppl. II, P. II, i6o, t. 194 (1827). Hueben. Muse, 

 germ. 422 (1833). 



Bryum tortifolium Brid. Bry. univ. i, Suppl. 844 (1827). 



Bryum cyclophyllum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 6 — g, 63, t. 30 (1839). Rabenh. Deutsch. 

 kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 216 (1848). C. MuELL. Synops. i, 287 (1848). Scrimp. Synops. 377 

 (i860), 2 ed. 455. MiLDE Bry. siles. 220 (1869). Boulay Muse. Fr. 247 (1884). 

 JuRATZ. Laubm. oest.-ung. 288 (1882). HusN. Muse. gall. 250, t. 68 (1889). Limpr. 

 in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 425 (1893). 



Dioicous ; in soft lax bright green tufts, blackish at base. Stems 

 short and slender with few branches. Cauhne leaves remote, narrowed 

 at base, broadly obovate, comal larger, few, broadly oblong, all concave, 

 obtuse, quite entire, curled when dry, nerve vanishing below apex, cells 

 lax, soft, rhombic-hexagonal, indistinctly limbate by i — 2 rows of long 

 narrow ones. Caps, pendulous, shortly pyriform, leptodermous, pale 

 ferruginous, wide-mouthed, strongly contracted below it when dry ; lid 

 large, mamillar, yellow, glossy; teeth ferruginous at base, incurved 

 when dry. Male plant in distinct tufts, the infl. 3—4 gemmiform, among 

 the comal leaves. 



Hab.— Mud of dried up pools on peat-moors ; rare. Fr. 6. Gathered in the 

 Grampians by Mr. Grant, of Lossiemouth. {Scottish Naturalist, iv, p. 61.) 



The only record I have of this as a British moss is that by Mr. Fergusson 

 in the journal mentioned, and with so distinct a plant it is not likely there 



