Bryace^.] 196 [Bryum. 



apiculus, the cells of upper half very narrow and serpentine. Capsule 

 pale, subclavate-oblong, lid large, mamillate. (T. LXXV, F.) 



Syn. — Bryum julaceum Schwaeg. in L. Sp. pi. 4 ed. v., P. 2, p. 68 p.p. (1830), Bals. De 

 Not. in Mem. Ace. Torin. xl, 331, p.p. (1838). De Not. Syllab. 177, p.p. (1838). 

 Mont. PI. cell, canar. 34 (1840). 



Anomohryum julaceum Schimp. Synops. 382, p.p. (i860). De Not. in Comm. Soc. critt. 

 ital. ii, fasc. 2, p. 23 (1866), forma. 



Anomohryum juliforme C. de Solms-Laubach Tentam. bryo-geogr. 38 (1868). Limpr. 

 in Raben. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 222 (1892). 



Webera Neapolitana De Not. Epil. 417 (1869). 



Bryum campestre Lindb. Not. Saells. Fauna at fl. fenn. xi, 41 (1870). 



Bryum juliforme Schimp. Synops. 2 ed, 466 (1876). Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 

 296 (1882). 



Bryum fiUforme Var. fi. Neapolitanum Boulay Muse, de Fr. i, 293 (1884). 

 Anomohryum filiforme Van. juliforme HusN. Muse. gall. 222 (1888). 



Dioicous ; in loose yellow-green glossy tufts, the stems short 

 slender julaceous, with i — 3 short branches above. Leaves imbricated, 

 appressed, cymbiform-concave, ovate with a very short recurved 

 apiculus, margin minutely serrulate at apex, nerve vanishing below 

 apex ; cells in the upper half incrassate, very long and narrow, more or 

 less flexuouse, below lax and thin-walled, hexagono-rectangular. Perich. 

 bracts longer, ovato-lanc, seta red slender ; caps, small, pale brown, 

 subclavate-oblong, lid large hemispherical, mamillate, orange. Male 

 plants more slender, infl. gemmiform, bracts broadly ovate, pointed, 

 indistinctly nerved. 



Hab.— Moist turfy soil or rocks, very rare. Fr. 4. Near Penzance, sterile 

 (Mitten &> Curnow) ! ! 



This slender little moss ia intermediate between B. filiforme and concinnatum, 

 and may readily be distinguished by the structure of the leaf, the cells in the 

 upper half being more flexuose and much longer and narrower than in 

 B. filiforme. 



BRYUM CffiSPITICITIM. 



Var. y. badium (Bruch) Brid. 



Plants more slender, in loose tufts, often tinged with red ; leaves firmer 

 with an excurrent reddish yellow nerve ; capsule dark brown. 



Syn. — Bryum hadium Bruch MSS. Ruthe in Verb. bot. ver. prov. Brandenb. 1867, p. 61. 

 MiLDE Bry. siles. 217. Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 444. Juratz. Laubm. 279. Limpr. D. 

 kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 383. 



Bryum caspiticium Var. y, badium Brid. Bry. univ. i, 850 (1827). 



Bryum caspiticium Var. /i. gracilescens Bry. eur. 



