Meeseace^.] 222 [Meesea. 



Bryum trichodes L. Sp. plant. 1120 (1753) ; Syst. nat. ii, 702. Neck. Meth. muse. igS 

 (1771). Ehrh. Hann. mag. 1780, p. 236. Dicks. PI. crypt, fasc. II, 7 (1790). Hull 

 Br. fl. P. 2, 263 (1799). Sm. F1. brit. 1350 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1517. Hook. Tayl. 

 Muse. brit. 116, t. 28 (i8r8). Hook. Fl. scot. P. 2, 149 (1821). Gray Nat. arr. Br. pi. 

 i, 767 (1821). DuBY Bot. gall, ii, 549 (1830). 



Hypnum trichodes Web. Spic. fl. Goett. 87 (1778). 



Mnium trichodes L. FiL. Meth. muse. 363 (1787). Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 47 (1795). 



Meesia uliginosa Hedw. Descr. i, i, t. I et 2 (1787), Sp. muse. 173 (1801). Swartz 

 Muse. Suec. 44 (1798). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 166 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 102 

 (1817), Mant. 122 (iSig), Bry. univ. ii, 60 (1827). Schultz Fl. starg. 357 

 (1806). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 374 (1807). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. 2, 82 (1811). 

 Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 357 (1812), Fl. carp. 351 (1814). Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 121 

 (1813). Mart. Fl. cr. erl. 74 (1817). Funck Moost. 43, t. 28 (1821). Hueben. Muse, 

 germ. 487 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 107 (1838), Epilogo 438 (i86g). Br. Sch. Bry. 

 eur. Fasc. 10 (1841). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 195 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. i, 

 465 (1840). WiLs. Bry. brit. 266, t. 28 (1855). ScHiMP. Synops. 407 (i860), 2 ed. 

 499. Berk. Handb. Br. m. 179, t. 16 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 234 (i86g). Hobk. 

 Synops. br. m. 125 (1873). Husn. Mouss. nord-ouest 2 ed. 115 (1882), Muse. gall. 

 261, t. 72 (i8go). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 212 (1884). 



Mnium uliginosum Gmel. Syst. nat. ii, 1329 (1791). With. Bot. arr. 3 ed. iii, 800 

 (1796). 



Amblyodon uliginosus P. Beauv. Prodr. 41 (1805). 



Meesea trichodes Spruce Ann. Mag. nat. hist. 2 ser. iii, 369 (1849). Juratz. Laubm. 

 oester.-ung. 317 (1882). BouL. Muse. Fr. 229 (1884). Limpr. in Rab. D. kr. fl. 

 Laubm. ii, 507 (1893). 



Autoicous and synoicous ; in small dense yellowish-green tufts, 

 brown and tomentose at base. Stems dichotomous or fasciculate- 

 branched. Leaves in 8 rows, accrescent upward, erecto-patent, lower 

 lanceolate, upper lineal-lane, obtuse, margin revolute, entire, nerve 

 thick f width of base, vanishing below apex ; cells incrassate above, 

 rectangular or quadrate, thinner and elongated at base. Seta more or 

 less elongated, purple ; caps, castaneous, dark brown when old, from 

 an erect neck, curved-pyriform ; lid small, conic, umbonate, annulus of 

 I row of cells ; teeth of peristome orange, lane, obtuse, perforated 

 above in the dorsal line ; endostome yellow, the processes lineal much 

 longer than teeth, cilia rudimentary. 



Hab. — Boggy moorlands in mountain districts. Fr. 6 — 7. 



Mountains of Scotland and N. of England. Sand hills at Southport, Lancashire. 



Var. p. alpina (Futtch). 



Leaves more rigid, straight, more acute ; caps, shorter. 



Syn. — Meesea alpina Funck in Flora 1825, p. 274. 



Meesea stricta et angustifolia Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 61-62. 



Meesea uliginosa varr. alpina et angustifolia Rabek. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 195. 



Hab. — On the higher mountains. Ben Lawers and Craigailleach. 



Var. y. minor {Brid.). 



