MNiACEiE.] 244 [Mnhim. 



Bryiim Hgiilalmn Schreb. Spic. fl. lips. 84 (1771). Wither. Bot. arr. ii, 673 (1776). 

 SwARTZ MuFC. Fuec. 51 (179S). Sm. Fl. brit. 1371 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1449. Turn. 

 Mufc. hib. VoiT MuKC. herb. 87 (1812). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 125, t. 30 (1818). 

 Bkid. Mant. iig (i8ig). Hook. F). scot. P. 2, 151 (1821). Gray Nat. arr. i, 772 (1821). 



Mnjiim lignlatum Willd. Fl. berol. 334 (1787). Brid. Muse. ree. I, P. UI, 112 (1803), 

 Sp. muse. Ill, 55 (1817). ScHULTZ Fl. starg. 348 (1806).. Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 97 

 (1813)- 



Hypmim vndatum Schrank Bayers, fl. ii, 474 (1789). 



Polylrichum nndaiuin Schrank Prim. fl. salisb. 223 (1792). 



Bryum midulatnm Sibth. Fl. oxon. 292 (1794). Roth. Fl. germ, iii, P. i, 2<|g (1800). 



Hypnum lignlatum Web. Mohr Ind. mus. pi. cr. (1803), et Bot, Taseh. 298 (1807). 



Bryum Polla ligiilata Brid. Bry. univ. i, 708 (1826). 



Astrophyllum tindulaUim Lindb. Muse, scand. 13 {1879). 



Dioicous; tall, dendroid, widely caespitant, deep green. Stem 

 erect simple, with a number of branches arising from the rosette-like 

 coma, which are flagelliform, dense-leaved and arcuate, and many 

 strong horizontal stolons at base. Cauline leaves remote, oblong, 

 comal elongate ligulate and decurrent, undulate, crisped when dry, 

 limb of 3 rows of cells, confluent with the nerve at apex, simply 

 serrate, leaf -cells irregular roundish. Capsules 2 — 10 in one 

 perichsetium, cernuous, oblong, yellowish, becoming castaneous, 

 annulus large, lid convex apiculate, peristome greenish yellow. 

 Hab. — Damp shady woods and hedge banks. Fr, 5. 



This fine moss presents but little variation and is generally distributed, 

 but the fruit is by no means frequent, when it does occur the number of 

 capsules gives the plant a very handsome appearance. 



10. MNIUM ROSTRATTJM Schrad. 



Synoicous ; in loose trailing dark-green patches. Leaves large 

 oval-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, bluntly toothed. Caps, oval, 

 horizontal, lid rostrate. (T. LXXXI, F.) 



Syn. — Bryum pendulum, Serpylli folio longiore pellucido, capsulis oblongis cusfidatis Dili.. 

 Hist. muse. 416, t. 53, f. 80 (1741) et Herb. 



Bryum serpylli folium Var. ^. Huds. Fl. angl. 492 (1762). 



Mnium rostratum Schrad. in L. (Gmel.) Syst. nat. 13 ed. ii, P. 2, 1330 {1791). Hoffm. 

 Deutsch. fl. ii, 52 (1795). Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 96 (1813). Schwaeo. Suppl. I, P. II, 

 136, t. 79 (1816). Mart. Fl. cr. erl. 70 (1817). Funck Moost. 52, t. 33 (1821). 

 HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 412 (1833). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fase. 5, p. 27, t. 7 (1838). 

 De Not. Syllab. 141 (1838), Epilogo 364 (1869). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, Sect. 3, 227 

 (1848). C. MuELL. Synops. i, 158 (1849). Wils. Bry. brit."254, t. 30 (1855). Schimp. 

 Synops. 390 (i860), 2 ed. 480. Berk. Handb. br. m. 184 (1863). Linde. Not. ur 

 Saellsk. Fl. Faun. fenn. ix, 58 (1867). Milde Bry. siles. 224 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 

 121 (1873). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest 128 (1873), Muse. gall. 254, t. 69 (1889). 

 Juratz. Laubm. oest.-ung. 310 (1882). Boulay Muse. fr. 241 (1884). Lesq. James 

 Moss. N. Amer. 243 (1884). Umpr- in Rabenh, D, kr, fl, Laubm. ii, 470 (1893). 



