Hypnace^.] 31 [Amblystegium. 



Leaves crowded or distant, broader at base, the margin faintly 

 denticulate; perich. bracts (fig. 2) denticulate towards the attenuated point. 



Syn. — Amblystegium Kochii Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 55 — 56, p. 13, t. 6. Schimp. Synops. 596, 

 2 ed. 716. MiLDE Bry. siles. 327. HusN, Muse. gall. 362. Dix. James. Stud. 

 Handb. 449. 



Amblystegium curvipes Guemb. in Bry. eur. 1. c. p. 14, t. 7. Schimp. Synops. 597, 

 2 ed. 717. 



Amblystegium ambiguum De Not. Epilogo 144. 



Hypnum riparium * Kochii BouL. Muse. Fr. 77. 



Amblystegium trichopodium Var. Kochii Linde. Acta soc. sci. fenn. x, 275 (1872). 



Amblystegium riparium Var. Kochii R. du Buyss. op. c. 20. 



Hab. — Pond Leigh, Hurstpierpoint [Mitten). 



This plant has quite a different aspect from A. riparium, and by its 

 subsquarrose leaves with shorter and broader cells certainly stands higher 

 than a variety. A . Kochii only deviates from it in some trifling particulars, 

 and must go with it, whether as species or variety. 



Sect. 2. CAMPYLIADELPHUS Lindb. Stems prostrate, the branches 

 irregular and crowded or ascending and fastigiate. Leaves subsquarrose, 

 scarious, from a broadly ovate base, running out into a long acumen, nerve 

 one or obsolete, cells very narrow, linear and flexuose, large and diaphanous 

 at basal angles. Paraphyllia absent. 



Clavis to the Species. 



Leaves nerved. 



Leaves ereeto-patent, lanceolate-subulate, nerved nearly to point elodes. 



ovato-lanceolate, nerved half-way. polygamum. 



Leaves sq.uarrose, ovato-acuminate, nerve faint, half-way, chrysophyllum. 

 Leaves nerveless. 



Stem creeping, leaves laneeolate-piliform. protensum. 



erect, leaves deltoid-ovate, acuminate. stellatum. 



14. AMBLYSTEGIUM ELODES [Spruce) Lindb. ■ 



Dioicous ; procumbent, stems slender, subpinnate with slender 

 suberect branches. Leaves spreading, lanceolate, very longly acuminate, 

 nerved nearly to point, entire. Capsule oblong, curved, cernuous. 

 (T. XC, A.) 



Syn. — Hypnum polymorphum (non Hedw.) Tayl. in Mack. Fl. hibern. P. 2, p. 44 (1836). 



Hypnum elodes Spruce in Lond. Journ. Bot. 1845, p. 174. C. Muell. Synops. ii, 434 

 (1831). WiLS. Bry. brit. 362, t. 56 (1855). Schimp. Coroll. Bry. eur. 130 (1856), 

 Synops. 601 (i860), 2 ed. 723. Berk. Handb. br. m. 99 (1863). Milde Bry. siles 

 341 (1869). HoBK. Synops. 165 (1873). BouL. Muse. Fr. 70 (1884). Husn. Muse. 

 gall. 366, t. 114 (1893). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 453 (1896). 



Amblystegium elodes Lindb. Muse, scand. 32 (1879). 



