ItJO , SYNOPSIS OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



Wet places near streams. August. 



Sub-genus. Bryum. 



Caps, inclined or pendulous, ovate or obloag-pyri-. 

 form, rarely somewhat incurved. Perist. internal 

 entirely free, basal membrane broad, processes long, 

 perfect, ciliolse of equal length. 



a. Synoicous. 



349. B. intermedium, W. and M. St. about i inch, 

 tufted, branched. L. imbricate, lower ovate-lanceolate, 

 upper oblong aad elongate lanceolate, acuminate, 

 margins recurved, nerve reddish, excurrent into a 

 long, remotely toothed arista. Caps, pyriform, narrow, 

 slightly incurved, subpendulous, tapering into alongish 

 neck, lid conical, pointed. Inner perist. with cilia. 



Walls and rocks. Frequent. June — December. 



350. B. bimum, Schreb. St. J — 1 inch, tufted, some- 

 times branched, with purplish radicles. L. ovate- 

 lanceolate, decurrent, semi-amplexicaul, shortly apicu- 

 late, occasionally serrate at apex, margins recurved, 

 nerve brownish, shortly excurrent. Caps, oblong- 

 pyriform, tapering at neck, pendulous, constricted at 

 mouth when dry, lid large, convex, mammillate. Int. 

 perist. with the basal membrane very broad. 



Wet and boggy places. June, July. 



Var. /3. cusriDATUM. L. with long, bushy points, 

 margined. 



Walls, &c. 



851. B. torquescens, B. and 8. St. J — 1 inch, tufted, 

 Tadiculose. L. lower ovate-lanceolate, upper oblong 

 "lanceolate, all shortly pointed, entire, margin recurved, 

 slightly twisted when dry, nerve red, excurrent, into a 

 smooth point. Caps, large, obconical or clavate, sub- 



