Hypnace^.J 27 [Amblystegium. 



Hab, — In similar localities. Sand hills near Southport (T. Rogers 1875) I ! 



Professor Arnell suggests that Lindberg sent this moss to Schimper 

 named pachynUzon, and that he through inadvertence published it under the 

 name porphyrrhizon, but as Lindberg gives the locality Drottningholm both 

 for it and his already published serotinum, there is little doubt that the two 

 are identical. 



The patent leaves of softer texture, with more attenuated points, and 

 fainter nerve ending at the middle of the leaf are the characters separating 

 A.radicale from A. varium, hnt that they stand very near to each other is 

 evident by the way in which they have been confused, and it may be 

 questioned whether there really are so many of these species distinct from 

 A , serpens as our text-books describe. 



Amblystegium subtile (Hedw.) Br. Sch. is a small slender species with 

 suberect capsule, and leaves with a short faint nerve, and should certainly be 

 found here, as it is scattered all over Europe. 



10. AMBLYSTEGIUM CONFERVOIDES (Brid.) Br. Sch. 



Autoicous ; stem very slender, creeping, branched. Leaves minute, 

 oval-lanceolate, entire, nerveless. Capsule sub-horizontal-, firm, oblong ; 

 lid conic apiculate. (T. LXXXIX, B.) 



Syn. — Hypnum confervoides Brid. Sp. muse. 11, 153 (1812), Mant. 167 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 583 



(1827). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 218 (1816). FUNCK MoOSt. 58, t. 39 (1821). 



HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 677 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 11 (1838). Raeenh. D. kr. fl. II, 

 S. 3, 292 (1848). C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 414 (1851). Hobk. Synops. 163 (1873). 

 BouL. Muse. Fr. 80 (1884). 



Hypnum Conferva Schwaeg. Suppl. II, P. I, 158, t. 142 (1823). 



Leskea confervoides Spruce in Lond. Journ. bot. iv, 182 (1845). 



Amblystegium confervoides Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 55 — 56, p. 6, t. 2 {1853). Schimp. 

 Synops. 590 (i860), 2 ed. 707. De Not. Epil. 156 (1869). Milde Bry. siles. 323 (1869). 

 Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 212 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 357, t. 102 (1892), Dix. James. 

 Stud. Handb. 442 (1896). 



Stereodon confervoides Lindb. Muse, seand. 38 (1879). 



Autoicous; casspitant, dark green, opake, fuscescent when old. 

 Stem very slender, trailing, vaguely branched, the branches pinnate. 

 Leaves minute, remote, spreading or subsecund, appressed when dry, 

 oval-lanceolate, longly acuminate, entire, nerveless ; angular cells very 

 few, quadrate, upper oblong-rhomboidal, firm. Perich. bracts larger, 

 concave, lanceolate, plicate, longly acuminate, minutely denticulate. 

 Capsule subhorizontal, oblong, curved, contracted below mouth ; lid 

 convex, obliquely apiculate, teeth lanceolate yellow, membrane of 

 endostome as high as teeth, processes entire, with i — 3 cilia half their 

 length. 



Hab. — On stones in woods in calcareous districts, rare. Fr. 8. 



