Mniace^.] 236 [Mnium. 



obtuse, entire, scariose ; upper large, patent, crisped and undulate 

 when dry, obovate-spathulate, shortly cuspidate with the excurrent 

 nerve which is rufous and serrate at back of apex, cells in oblique 

 rows roundish-angular. Perich. bracts narrower, lane, often enclosing 

 several capsules, seta red, caps, horizontal or slightly inclined, oval- 

 oblong, rufous brown ; lid conic, obtusely rostellate : peristome reddish- 

 brown, endostome orange. Male infl. large rosaceous. 



Hab. — Pine woods and shady mountain rocks, very rare. Fr. 7. 



Under rocks on Ben Lawers (McKinlay 1867) ! ! Glen Shee, Clova (Fergusson 1876). 



A fine moss of somewhat rigid texture, and by no means attractive 

 appearance owing to the dark dingy green colour. Only a few capsules have 

 been found here. 



2. MNITJM MARGINATUM {Dicks.) P. Beauv. 



Synoicous ; in loose bright green tufts. Leaves distant, decurrent, 

 lower obovate-lanc, upper spathulate, limb bispinoso-serrate. Caps, 

 ovate, shortly rostrate. (T. LXXXI, B.) 



Syk. — Bryum marginatum Dicks. PI. crypt, br. fasc. II, 9, t. 5 (1790). Wither. Bot. arr.br.pl. 

 3 ed. iii, 841 {1796). Hull Br. fl. P. 2, 267 (1799). Smith F1. brit. 1362 (18(^4) ; Eng. 

 Bot. t. 1473, Trans. Linn. Soc. xi, 290 (1814). Turn. Muse. hib. 129 (1804). Hook. 

 Tayl. Muse. br. 126, t. 31 (1818). Hook. Fl. Scot. P. 2, 152 (1821), Br. fl, ii, 64 (1833). 

 Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 772 (1S21). Mack. Fl. hib. P. 2, 33 (1836). 



Mnium serratum Schrad. in L. (Gmel.) Syst. nat. 13 ed. ii, 1330 (1791). Brid. Muse, 

 rec. II, P. Ill, 84, 1. I, f. 2 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 44 (1817). P. Beauv. Podr. 77 (1805). 

 ScHULTz Fl. Starg. 243 (1806). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. z, 128, t. 78 {1816). Sturm 

 Deutsch. fl. er. II, 10. Mart. Fl. cr. erl. 67 (1817). Funck. Moost. 51, t. 32 (1821). 

 HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 418 {1833). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 5, p. 24, t. 5 (1838). De 

 Not. Syll. 139 (1838), Epilogo 365 (1869). Rabenh. Deutsch. cr. fl. II, s. 3, 225 

 (1848). C. MuELL. Synops. i, 163 (1848). WiLS. Bry. brit. 255, t. 31 (1855). Schimp. 

 Synops. 392 (i860), 2 ed. 481. Berk. Handb. br. m. 184 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 

 227 (1869). HoBK. Synops. 122 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 302 (1882). 

 Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 245 (1884). Limpr. in Raben. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 461 

 (1893). 



Bryum serratum Schrad. Spic. fl. germ, i, 71 (1794), Syst. Samml. cr. gew. P i, 15, n. 68 

 (1796). 



Hyp. serratum Wee. Mohr Ind. mus. pi. cr. (1803). 



Mnium marginatum P. Beauv. Prodr. 75 (1805). Roehl. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 93 (1813). 

 LiNDB. in Not. saell. Fn. fl. fenn. ix, 46 (1867). BouL. Muse. Fr. 235 (1884). HusN. 

 Muse. gall. 256, t. 70 (1890). 



Hyp. marginatum Web. Mohr Bot. Taseh. 292 (1807). 



Bryum Polla serrata Brid. Bry. univ. i, 6Sg (1826). 



Astropliyllum marginatum Lindb. Muse, scand. 14 (1879). 



Synoicous ; in lax soft bright green tufts, brownish red at base. 

 Stems I — I in. purplish, simple, erect. Leaves distant, erecto-patent, 

 soft, twisted when dry, longly decurrent, the lower obovate-lanceolate. 



