HYPNUM. 225 



basal cells broad, excavate, orange. Caps, oblong, 

 erect or cernuous, almost symmetricalj lid with au 

 oblique beak. 



Walla, rocks, trees, &c. October, December. 



550. H. PatientisB, Lindb. {lAndbergii, Mitt., Journ. 

 of Bot., i. p. 123. If. pratense, Bry. Brit., 399, but non 

 Kocb.) . St. sparingly branched in an irregular manner, 

 without any appearance of becoming pinnate. L. 

 loosely compressed, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 but with a broad point, concave, margins entire, nerve- 

 less, cells at angles enlarged and pale. Caps., accord- 

 ing to Lindberg, is on a rather thick seta, 1 inch long, 

 turgid, ovate, when dry arcuate, sulcate. 



" Damp sandy . ground among thin grass, not in 

 bogs. The fruit has been gathered once by Dr. Klin- 

 graff in June, in W. Prussia." 



(N.B. — The true -H". pratense is not found in Britain, 

 and S. areuatum, SuU., is only found in the Sandwich 

 and other islands in the Pacific Ocean.) 



c. Fruit not known. 



551. H. Bamberger!, (Sc/ip. Tufts rather small, dense, 

 yellowish-green above, passing to yellow-fuscous at 

 base. St. without radicles or villi, subpinnate. Br. 

 few, fastigiate. L. densely crowded, secund, strongly 

 circinnate, ovate-lanceolate, elongate, entire, with a 

 long point, faintly nerved, single or unequally bifurcate, 

 alar cells few, rather obscure, yellow, upper linear, 

 elongate. 



Near summit of Ben Lawers, July, 1867 (Dr. 

 Fraser). 



.Sub- genus 8. Ctenidium. 



Prostrate or ascending, rooting, regularly pianate. 



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