Bryace^.] 193 [Bryum. 



This fine moss bears much resemblance to B, capillave, but the leaves have 

 only short points with the nerve just excurrent, and a much thicker limb. 

 It is most frequent in the Mediterranean region and Canary Islands. 



35. BRYUM PROVINCIALE Philib. 



Polyoicous ; stem branched, the innovations with the comal leaves 

 suddenly larger and crowded, ovate-oblong concave, serrulate in upper 

 part, the nerve excurrent. Capsule pendulous, obconic-pyriform. 

 (T. LXXV, B.) 



Syn. — Bryum Billardieri (non Schwaegr.) Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 6 — 9, p. 58, t. 26 (1839). 

 WiLS. Bry. brit. 242, t. 50 (1855). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 118 (1873). 



Bryum Canariense (non Brid.) Schimp. Synops. 374 (i860). Berk. Handb. br. m. 197 

 (1863). De Not. Epilogo 393 (1869). 



Bryum provinciah Philib. MSS. Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 432 (1876). Juratz. Laubm. 

 oester.-ung. 285 (1882). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 161 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 

 230 (1884). BouLAY Muse. Fr. 271 (1884). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 

 364 (1893). 



B. Canariense Var. provinciale HusN. Muse. gall. 239 {1889). 



Polyoicous ; the same plant often bearing male, female and synoicous 

 infl. Laxly csespitose, bright green above, fuscous at base with 

 ferruginous tomentum, the innovations single or in pairs. Lower leaves 

 remote, small, ovato-lanc, shortly cuspidate, upper suddenly larger, 

 crowded in a many leaved rosette, not limbate, the outer concave 

 obovate, shortly acuminate, nerve strong rufous excurrent in a short 

 point, margin narrowly recurved in lower half, plane and minutely 

 serrate above; the median lineal-oblong acuminate, rather more 

 cuspidate ; the inner narrower, the margin to apex more broadly reflexed ; 

 cells rhombic-hexagonal above, rectangular and red at base. Perich. 

 bracts smaller lane, longly cuspidate, margin subrevolute. Capsule on 

 a rufous seta, pendulous, longly obconic, rufous-orange, not contracted 

 below the mouth; lid convex-conic, pointed, reddish-brown, annulus 

 broad ; peristome large, the teeth yellow below, hyaline above, processes 

 widely gaping. 

 Hab.— Calcareous hills in S. of England ; rare. Fr. 5. 



Old ant hills on Woolsonbury hill, Sussex (Mitten) ! ! Ightham, Kent c. fr. (Holmes). 

 Worthing. Wookey, near Wells, Somerset v.. fr. (Binstead 1887) ! ! Lord's wood, 

 Great Doward hill, Hereford c. fr. (Rev. A. Ley 1874) ! 



Another moss allied to B. capillme but with non-limbate leaves, and with 

 a different habit, the stem being interrupted by the leaves clustering into 

 rosettes. B. Canariense Brid. has a similar habit but is dioicous, the leaves 

 with a denser areolation and more minutely serrulate. B. Billardieri Schwaeg. 

 is Australian. 



