Mniace^.] 247 • [Mnium. 



13. MNIUM PSEUDOPUNCTATITM Br. Sch. 



Synoicous ; erect. Leaves roundish obovate obtuse entire, with a 

 very narrow limb, nerve vanishing below apex, Caps, small roundish- 

 oval, lid rostellate. (T. LXXXIII, B.) 



Syn. — Mnium pscudoptmctatum Er. Sch. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii, 66g (1843), Linde. 

 Not. ur saells. Fn. et Fl. fenn. foerh. ix, 68 (1867). 



Bryum mnioides WiLS. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iii, 427 (1844), Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 

 2907. 



Mnium subglobosum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 31, Suppl. 3, t. 3 {1846). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. 

 II, S. 3, 224 (1848). C. MuELL. Synops. i, 156 (1849). ^A'ILS. Bry. brit. 259, t. 51 

 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 399 (i860), 2 ed. 490. Berk. Handb. tr. m. 187 (1863). 

 MiLDE Bry. siles. 224 (i86g). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 124 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. oester.- 

 ung. 312 (1882). BouLAY Muse. Fr. 243 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 248 

 (1884). HuSN. Muse. gall. 258, t. 71 (1890J. Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 

 490 (1893). 



Mnium punctatum Var, subglobosum Hampe MS. 



Astrophyllum pseudopunctatum Lindb. Muse, scand. 13 (1879). 



Synoicous ; in wide irregular mats, densely coated with black or 

 rufous tomentum, branches slender, erect. Leaves shortly decurrent, 

 distant, green above, the lower becoming reddish, obovate, obtuse, entire, 

 the limb of i — 3 rows of elongated narrow cells, nerve thin vanishing 

 below the apex, leaf-cells lax, irregular angular-oval. Caps, small, 

 cernuous, globose-oval, leptodermous, greenish-brown, lid conical, 

 pointed or rostellate ; peristome brownish-yellow, endostome orange. 



Hab. — Marshy moorland heaths, not uncommon. Fr. 3. 



Longfield and Stansfield- moors, Todmorden (WuW/i 1844) ! ! Malham Tarn (Noiv elf). 

 Tintwis'le and Stayley Brushes, Cheshire (Whitehead 1861) ! ! Bowness (Atkinson)\ 

 Sutton Park (Bagnall) ! ! Carmeadow, Derby (Holt 1882) ! ! Most of the Yorkshire 

 moors and in Scotland. 



Readily known when fertile by the synoicous inflorescence and small 

 rounded capsules, and in the sterile state, although much like the next, the 

 leaves will be seen to be softer, wider at base and with the nerve vanishing 

 some distance below the summit, and also with a narrower hmb. 



14. MNIUM PUNCTATUM L. 



Dioicous ; erect. Leaves roundish, upper larger obovate, crowded 

 into a rosette, entire, with a thick limb, nerve ending in the very small 

 point. Caps, oval, lid come rostellate. (T. LXXXIII, C.) 



Syn. — Mnscus polytrichoides fuliis latis siibrotundis Ray Synops. 2 ed. 35 (1696) 



Bryum nitens, foliis serpylli pellucidis rolundis, capitulis ccrnuis majusculis, e cauUculis 

 veteribus egrcdieutibus Dill. Cat. Giss. 227 (1718).' 



