Bryace^.j 190 [Bryum. 



could be any mistake. The figures are from Swedish specimens and will 

 enable our young collectors to identify it, if they should be fortunate enough 

 to meet with it. 



33. BRYITM CAPILLARE L. 



Dioicous ; in dense tufts reddish at base. Leaves spirally twisted 

 when dry, obovate or spatulate, with long hair-points, limbate with 

 I — 4 rows of yellow cells, entire ; nerve vanishing at point. Caps, 

 clavate or cylindric. (T. LXXIV, D.) 



Syn. — Muscus trichodes, capitulis oblongls re/lexis Doody. Ray Syn. 243 (i6go). 



Bryum iiiiidum, foliis serpyUi pellncidis, capitulis refiexis e surculis annotinis et marcidis 

 egredientibits Dill. Cat. Giss. 227 (1718). 



Bryum foliis latiusculis congestis, capsulis longis nutaiiiibus Dill. Hist. muse. 398, t. 50, 

 f. 67 {1741), et Herbar. 



Bryum stellare roseum pendulum minus, capsulis et setis longioribns Dill. op. u. 412, t. 52, 

 f. 78 ; et Herbar. 



Bryum capillare L. Sp. pi. 1121 {1753) ; Syst. Nat. ii, 700. HuDS. Fl. angl. 414 (1762). 

 Wither. Bot. arr. ii, 667 {1776). Lightf. Fl. scot, ii, 737 (1777). Sibth. Fl. 

 oxon. 2go (1794). SwARTz Muse. suec. 50 {1798). Hull Br. fl. P. 2, 255 (1799). 

 Hedw. Sp. muse. 182 (1801). Sm. Fl. brit. iii, 1357 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 2007. 

 Turn. Muse. hib. 120 (1804). VoiT Muse. herb. 91 (1812). Wahlen. Fl. lapp. 359 

 (1812). RoEHL. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 93 (1813). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 118, t. 74 (1816.) 

 Mart. Fl. cr. erl. 63 (1817). Brid. Sp. muse. Ill, 24 (1817), Mant. 118 {1819), 

 Bry. univ. i, 665 (1826). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 121, t. 29 (1818). Hook. KI. 

 scot. P. 2, 150 (1821), Br. Fl. ii, 60 (1833). Funck Moostasch. 49, t. 31 (1821). Gray 

 Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 770 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 442 (1833). Mack. Fl. 

 hib. P. 2, 32 (1836). De Not. Syllab. 131 (1838), Epilogo 394 (1869). Br. Sch. Bry. 

 eur. fasc. 6 — 9, p. 60, t. 28, 29 (1839). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 216 (1848). 

 C. MuELL. Synops. i, 281 (1849). WiLS. Bry. brit. 240, t. 29 (1855). Schimp. 

 Synops. 370 (i860), 2 ed. 449. Berk. Handb. br. m. 195 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 218 

 (1869). HoBK. Synops. 117 (1873). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest 125 (1873), Muse, 

 gall. 240, t. 65 (1889). Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 282 (1882). Boulay Muse, de 

 Fr. I, 241 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 235 (1884). Limpr. in Rabenh. kr. fl. 

 Laubm. ii, 375 (1893). 



Mnium capillare Hedw. Fund. II, 94 (1782). L. Syst. Veg. 14 ed. 947 {1784). Relhan 

 Fl. cantab. 399 (1785). Roth Fl. germ, i, 475 (1788). Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 50 (1795). 

 Abbot FI. Bedf. 234 (1798). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 99 (1803). Schultz Fl. 

 starg. 347 (1806). 



Hypnum capillare Weiss Crypt. Gottin. 205 (1770). 



Bryum squalidum Vill. PI. Dauph. iii, 889, t. 54 (1786). 



Dioicous; densely or laxly tufted, bright or dull green above, 

 fuscescent at base with rufous-brown tomentum. Leaves spirally 

 twisted when dry, or loosely incumbent, soft, broadly oblong and 

 spathulate, acuminate and ending in a longish piliform entire or 

 remotely denticulate point, plano-concave, margin reflexed, nerve 

 reddish, vanishing or excurrent. The comal leaves large and rosette- 

 like ; cells lax, the marginal i — 4 rows very narrow, forming a 

 yellowish limb, the upper rhombo-hexagonal, basal rectangular. Caps, 

 on a tall red seta, cernuous, slightly incurved, horizontal, inclined or 



