54 SYNOPSIS OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



I. AECTUM, Br. FragilOj yellowish, dense. St. 1. 

 narrowly bordered, cells of upper two-thirds fibrillose; 

 Br. dense, short, ascending. L. obtuse, laxly areo- 

 late. 



Brandon Mount, Kerry. 



17. S. fimbriatum, Wils. Tufts pale whitish-green. 

 St. slender, 6 — 12 inches, loosely csespitose, barb cells 

 , 2 — 3, layers porose. Br. 3 — 4 in fasc, very long, 

 attenuated, 2 arcuate and decurved, rest pendulous, 

 filiform. St. 1. obovate, broad, very obtuse, and fringed 

 at the summit, cells without fibres or pores, border 

 very broad below, but quickly narrows and vanishes ; 

 br. 1. lower ovate-lanceolate, upper elongate-lanceolate, 

 acute, cells fibrillose and porose, chl. cells compressed, 

 enclosed, but nearer the upper surface ; per. 1. very 

 large, obtuse, cucullate. Caps, on a short pedicel, 

 nearly enclosed in the per. leaves. Monoicous. 



Bogs and marshes. Frequent. June, July. 



18. S. strictum, Lindb. MS. 'Resembles fimbriatum, 

 but is more robust, yellowish-green or pale brownish. 

 St. straight, pale, 6 — 10 inches, cortical cells 3 — 4, 

 layers porose. St. 1. erect, appressed, ligulate-spathu- 

 late, truncate, and laciniate-fimbriate at apex, cells 

 without fibres or pores, with a broad border of narrow 

 cells extending to apex. Br. 3 — 4, of which 2 — 3 are 

 spreading, flagelliform, the rest deflexed, appressed, 

 filiform. Br. 1. erecto-patent, ovate-lanceolate and 

 lanceolate, cells fibrose with numerous large pores, 

 chl. cells trigonous, compressed near upper surface. 

 Dioicous. 



Shallow bogs on subalpine heaths. 



Ben Ledi, Killin, Ben Lawers, Glen Lyon, Banchory; 

 Dent and Skegglesmere in Westmoreland. 



