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55. TAYLORIA Hook. 



Usually fine mosses with long setae ; calyptra contracted at 

 base, conical. Apophysis more or less pyriform, much narrower 

 than the capsule, which is wide-mouthed when dry. Areolation 

 large, rhomboid-hexagonal. 



Tayloria Frcelichiana has been recorded as British, but 

 erroneously, and must be erased from our list. 



/Leaves acute, toothed 1. tenuis 



\ Leaves obtuse, entire 2. 



1 . Tayloria tenuis Schp. (Splachnum tenue Dicks. ; 



Tayloria serrata var. tenuis B. & S., nonnull. auct.) 

 (Tab. XXXVII. C). 



Loosely tufted, soft, slender. Leaves very thin and tender, 

 widely spathulate, shortly acuminate, acute; nerve reaching 

 nearly to apex; margin serrated above. Seta very slender; 

 capsule with a long narrow tapering apophysis, small, oval, wide- 

 mouthed when dry and empty; columella much exserted ; peris- 

 tome teeth reflexed when dry, purplish, long. Autoicous ; male 

 flower sub-discoid, terminal on branches. 



Hab. Decaying matter on mountains, very rare. Fr. late summer. 



Quite distinct from the next species by the reflexed peristome teeth, the exserted 

 columella, and serrated acuminate leaves. It frequently more nearly resembles 

 Tetraflodon mnioides, the capsule and apophysis being about the same width until 

 after maturity, and even capsules gathered ripe do not always dry with the apophysis 

 narrower than the capsule. It may however always be known from that species by 

 the leaves. 



2. Tayloria lingulata Lindb. (Splachnum lingulatum Dicks. ; 



Dissodon splachnoides Grev. & Arn., plur. auct.) 

 (Tab. XXXVII. D.). 



Tall, densely tufted, 1-4 inches high, blackish below, dark 

 green above. Leaves suberect, when dry not much crisped nor 

 twisted, glossy ; obovate-lingulate, obtuse, concave ; margin 

 entire or slightly irregular at apex with the projecting transverse 

 cell-walls ; nerve ceasing below apex. Seta bright red, 

 shining, 1-2 inches long. Capsule bright brown, rounded-oval, when 

 dry and empty wide-mouthed and somewhat turbinate ; apophysis 

 tapering, much narrower than the ripe capsule ; lid convex with 

 an apiculus of varying length. Peristome teeth 16, not in 

 pairs, yellowish, erect when dry. Columella slightly exserted. 

 Synoicous, or autoicous with the male flower gemmiform. 



