Mniace^e.] 229 [Gymnocybe. 



Dioicous; growing in bogs in large yellowish-green tufts, stems 

 2 — 4 in. high, densely coated with ferruginous tomentum. Leaves 

 erecto-patent, broadly lane, or lineal, slightly decurrent, acute at point, 

 the margin revolute, eroso-serrate towards apex ; nerve vanishing at 

 apex, cells irregular, roundish or angular, strongly incrassate, with a 

 conical hyaline papilla on each side, the basal brown, rectangular 

 smooth. Perich. bracts longer, more pointed, with narrower cells, 

 seta pale red. Caps, cernuous, long ovate, incurved, castaneous, 

 8-striate, erect when dry, contracted below mouth ; lid short yellowish, 

 with a short apiculus ; peristome yellow, the teeth lane- subulate, finely 

 papillose, cilia of endostome 3 — 4, long as processes. Male infl. discoid, 

 the bracts broad at base, lineal-lanceolate, patent, antheridia clavate. 



Hab. — Moorland bogs ; common on mountains. Fr. 6. 



Var. fi'. imbricata {Br. Sch.) Lindb. 



Leaves broader, imbricated, obtuse, entire, not twisted when dry. 

 Pseudopodia absent. 



Syn. —Mnium titrgidiim (non Wahlene.) Funck MSS. 



Aulacomnium palustre Var. fi. imbricatum Bry. eur. fasc. 10. 



Gymnocybe palustris Var. y. imbricata Linde. op. c. 87. 

 Hab. — On the higher mountains in drier places. 



East Butterwick, Lincoln (Rev. M. Peacock) ! ! Ayrshire [Shaw) \ 



Var. y. fascicularis (Brid.) Lindb. 



Stems much branched with short innovations ; leaves fasciculate, obtuse, 

 entire ; flagelliform shoots often from the axils of the floral leaves. 



Syn. — Mnium fasciculare Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 733. 

 Aulacomnium palustre y. fasciculare Bry. Eur. 

 Gymnocybe palustris Var. S. fascicularis Lindb. op. c. 88. 



Hab. — Moorland bogs. 



Var. S. ramosa (Hnds.) Lindb. 



Stem decumbent, branched, bearing short pseudopodia in the axils of the 

 comal leaves, naked in the upper part and bearing at the summit a cluster of 

 leaf-like gemmae. Leaves with acuminate points. 



Syn. Mnium majus, minus ramosum, capitulis puherulentis crebrioribus Dill. Hist. muse. 



235, n. 4 et Herb. 



Mnium ramosum Huds. F1. angl. 403. 



Mnium proUxum Neck. Meth. muse. 235. 



Brynm androgynum jS. prolixum Roth Tent. fl. germ, iii, P. I, 229. 



Mnium polycephalum Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. HI, 74. 



