168 SYNOPSIS 0¥ BRITISH MOSSES. 



Sub-genus 3. Bhodobryum. 

 St. 1. remote, subsquamiform ; comal 1. in a rosulate, 

 spreading tuft, acuminate, spathulate, serrate. Dioi- 

 cous. Male flower discoid. 



373. B. roseum, Schreb. St. 1 — 3 inches. L. lower 

 small, scattered, lanceolate, upper in a large rosaceous 

 tuft, spathulatOj apiculate, serrate above, margin re- 

 curved, nerved nearly to apex. Caps, clavate-oblong 

 or obovate, pendulous, lid mammillate. 



Sandy shady banks. September, December. 



Sub-genus 4. Anomohryum. 

 Plants filiform. L. densely imbricate, julaceous, 

 solid, shining, cells at base, hexagono-rhomboid and 

 rectangular at apex, linear- vermiform. 



374. B. filiforme, Dicks. (B. julaceum, Sm., ed. 1). 

 St. 1 — 3 inches, tufted, with long, filiform branches. 

 L. ovate or ovate-elliptical, obtuse, larger above, very 

 concave, entire or minutely serrulate at apex, margin 

 not recurved, not nerved to apex. Caps, oblong-obovate 

 or pyriform, pendulous, lid small, convex, pointed. 



Alpine and subalpine wet rocks. August, September. 



375. B. concinnatum, Spruce. More attenuated than 

 last, more regularly csespitose, silky green. L. dense, 

 imbricate, smaller, ovate or elliptic, more or less longly 

 acuminate, muticous or shortly and acutely apiculate, 

 entire or obsoletely denticulate at apex, nerved nearly 

 or quite to apex, cells lax, narrowly hexagono-rhom- 

 boid, subflexuose, broader at base. Eeadily distin- 

 guished from filiforme by its narrower, less concave, 

 acute leaves of laxer texture. 



Near Kenmare (Dr. Taylor), Teesdale (Spruce), 

 Ochills (Lyle). 



