Mniace^.] 246 [Mnium. 



Dioicous ; in soft dense tufts, i — 2 in. high, brown at base, dark 

 green above, changing to blue-green in water. Stems and basal shoots 

 erect. Leaves accrescent upward, erecto-patent, shortly decurrent, 

 undulate and twisted when dry, oblongo-elliptic, acutely acuminate, 

 not limbate, lower nearly entire, upper with the margin from middle to 

 apex with irregular somewhat obtuse teeth formed by the projecting 

 ends of cells ; nerve thin reddish, smooth at back, vanishing below 

 apex ; cells rounded and angular, irregular. Caps, on a reddish seta, 

 cernuous, longish ovate, olivaceous-brown, lid convex obtuse, reddish- 

 yellow ; peristome yellowish, endostome orange. 

 Hab. — Damp shady banks in woods and rotten stumps. Fr. 6, ver3' rare. 



Frequent in the N. of England and in limestone districts. With fruit at Winnats, Derby 

 (Holt 1884) ! ! and in a lane on Penyard hill, Ross (Miss E. Armitagc) ! 



• * • Leaves entire. 



12. MNIUM CINCLIDIOIDES {Blytt) Hwhen. 



Dioicous ; stems tall, erect. Leaves roundish-oval, entire, not 

 limbate. Caps, pendulous, oval, lid convex, apiculate. (T. LXXXII, E.) 



Syn. — Bryum cinclidioides Blytt MS. Lindgr. Muse. suec. ex":, fasc. i, n. Ii (1835). 

 Hartm. Skand. fl. 3 ed. 293 (1838). C. Muell. Synops. i, 250 (1849). 



Mnium cinclidioides Hueeen. Muse. germ. 416 (1833). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 5, p. 34, 

 t. 13 {1838). De Not. Syllab. 140 (1838), Epilogo 358 (1869). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. ii, 

 S. 3, 229 (1848). WiLS. Bry. brit. 257, t. 51 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 397 (i860) 2 ed. 

 488. Berk. Handb. br. m. 186 {1863). Linde. Notis. ur Saells. Faun. Fl. fenn. ix, 70 

 {1867). Milde Bry. siles. 231 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 123 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. 

 oester.-ung. 311 (1882). BouL. Muse. Fr. 244 (1884). Lesq. James Moss N. Amer. 

 248 {1884). HusN. Muse. gall. 257, t. 71 (1890). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. 

 ii, 485 (1893). 



Astrophylhim cinclidioides Lindb. Muse, scand. 13 {1879). 



Dioicous ; tall in loose tufts, radiculose at base, sterile branches 

 elongated erect. Leaves yellowish-green, large distant, lower rounded- 

 ovate, upper broadly Ungulate, rounded at apex with a short apiculus 

 or slightly emarginate, broadly undulate, thin and soft, not limbate but 

 with I — 3 rows of elongated marginal cells, those of the lamina in 

 divergent rows, irregular rhombic. Caps, on a long slender reddish 

 seta, suddenly pendulous, ovate, yellowish-brown ; lid convex apiculate ; 

 peristome dark brown, the teeth perforated in the median line, 

 endostome yellow. 



Hab. — Grassy mountain heaths and marshes. Fr. 6. 



Glen Prosen, Menmuir and Findhaven hills, Clova (Fergusson 1868) ! ! Ben Lawers. 

 Loch-na-Gar (Ewing 1886) ! Margin of Tal-y-Uyn lake, Merioneth. (Ley i88g) ! 

 Giasmere, Westmoreland (Binstead 1893) ! 1 



