MNlACEiK.] 228 [Gymnocybe. 



A small genus of three species, usually combined with the next, but 

 differing in habit, in the androecium and leaf-structure, so that it is more 

 convenient to keep them separate. 



Clavis to the Species. 



Leaves erecto-patent, acute and serrate at point, palustris. 

 imbricated, obtuse, entire. twgida. 



I. GYMNOCYBE PALUSTRIS (L.) Fries. 



Dioicous; in tall branched tomentose tufts. Leaves narrow, 

 elongato-lanceolate, acute, eroso-serrate towards apex, nerve vanishing. 

 Capsule oval-cylindric, curved, lid conical. (T. LXXX, A.) 



Syn. — Muscus capillaceus palustris flagellis longioribus bifurcatis Merr. Pinax 75 (1667). Rav 

 Synops. 2 ed. 374 (iCge), 



Muscus irkhoides major palustris eitrini coloris Doody, Ray Synops. 2 ed. 338 (i6g6). 



Hypnum palustre erectum brevius, ramis longioribus, foliis angustioribus Dill. Cat. Giss. 

 219 (1718). 



Mnium majus, ramulis longioribus bifurcatis Dill, in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 78 (1724), 

 Hist. muse. 233, t. 31, f. 3 (1741) et Herbar. 



Mnium palustre L. Sp. pi. mo (1753). HuDS. Fl. angl. 402 (1762). Weiss Crypt, 

 goett. 165 (1770). ScHREB. Spic. Fl. lips. 102 (1771). With. Bot. arr. br. veg. ii, ( 64 (1776). 

 LiGHTF. Fl. scot, ii, 708 (1777). Hedw. Fund. II, 94 (1782), Sp. muse. 188 (1801). 

 Relh.F1. cant. 398 (1785). Koth Fl. germ, i, 474 {1788). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 

 73 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 42 (1817), Bry. univ. ii, 7 (1827). Smith Fl. brit. 1346 (1804). 

 ScHULTz Fl. starg. 341 (1806). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 352 (1812). Roehl. Deutsch. 

 fl. iii, 92 (1813). ScHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 122 (1816). Mart. Fl. cr. erl. 65 (1817). 

 C. MuELL. Synops. i, 169 (1849). 



Bryum palustre Neck. Meth. muse. 210 (1771). Weber Spic. fl. goett. 123 (1778). Eng. 

 Bot. t. 391. SwARTz Muse. suec. 46 (1798). Turn. Muse. hib. 113 (1804). Hook. 

 Tayl. Muse. brit. 115, t. 28 (1818). Hook. Fl. scot. II, 149 (1821). Gray Nat. arr. 

 br. pi. i, 767 (1821). 



Bryum ventricosum (non Dicks.) Sibth. Fl. oxon. 289 (1794). 



Hypnum palustre (non Huds.) Web. Mohr Ind. mus. pi. cr. (1803). 



Orthopyxis palustris P. Beauv. Prodr. 32 et 79 (1805). 



Hypnum elodes (non Spruce) Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 272 (1S07). 



Gymnocybe palustris Fries St. agr. femsj. 27 (1825). Lindb. Not. ur saells. Faun, et Fl. 

 fenn. foerh. ix, 86 (1867). Milde Bry. siles. 237 (1869). 



Aulacomnium palustre Schwaeg. Suppl. Ill, P. I, 4, t. 216 (1827). Hueben. Muse. germ. 

 392 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 104 (1838), Epil. 270 (1869). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 10, 

 p. 9, t. 3 (1841). Raben. D. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 229 (1848). WiLS. Bry. brit. 216, t. 28 (1855). 

 Schimp. Synops. 412 (i860), 2 ed. 505. Berk. Handb. br. m. 206, t. 18 (1863). Hobk. 

 Syn. br. m. 105 (1873). Husn. Mouss. nord-ouest 130 (1873), Muse. gall. 260, t. 72 

 (1890). JuRATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 322 (1882). Boulay Muse. Fr. 223 (1884). 

 Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 252 (1884). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 

 525 (1893). 



Limnobryum palustre Raben. Krypt. fl. Sachs, i, 502 (1863). 



Sphcerocephalus palustris Lindb. Muse. Scand. 14 (1879). 



