Hypnace^.] 32 [Atiiblystegium. 



Dioicous ; slender, in wide tufts, soft olivaceous or yellowish green, 

 subpinnate ; branches erect, acute incurved at apex. Stem-leaves 

 distant, divergent, branch-leaves closer, from an ovate base gradually 

 lanceolate-subulate, the nerve vanishing in the long acumen, margin 

 plane, entire or obsoletely serrate ; cells linear, the basal larger, 

 rectangular, incrassate, yellow and quadrate at the angles. Inner perich. 

 bracts suddenly subulate, with long points and thinner nerve ; capsule 

 on a long seta, subcylindric, curved inward, annulus broad of 3 rows 

 of cells, teeth yellowish, lanceolate-subulate, processes of endostome 

 entire, cilia 2 — 3. 



Hab. — Swampy ground ; not. common. Fr. 4 — 5. 



Anglesey (Rev. H. Davies in Herb. Turner). Killiney, Dublin {Taylor 1814). Stockton 

 Forest, York (Spruce 1842). Sands at Southport (Wilson) ! ! Tyfry bog, Anglesey 

 (Wilson). Semerwater, Wensleydale (R. Barnes i?,(n)\\ Killarney and Lough Corrib 

 (Moore). 



15. AMBLYSTEGIUM CHRYSOPHYLLUM (Brid.) De Not. 



Dioicous; stem procumbent, pinnate. Leaves patent, subsquarrose, 

 from a cordate base, ovate-acuminate, entire, nerved above half-way. 

 Capsule subcylindric, curved, cernuous. (T. XC, B.) 



SvN. — Hypnum chrysophyllum Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 84, t. 2, f. 2 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 200 

 (1812), Mant. 175 (iSig), Bry. univ. ii, 598 (1827). P. Beauv. Prodr. 62 (1805). 

 RoEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 105 (1813). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 275 (1816). Schultz 

 Suppl. Fl. starg. 79 (i8ig). Funck Moost. 64, t. 47 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 

 672(1833). De Not. Syllab. 42 (1838). WiLS. Bry. brit. 366 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 

 602 (i860), 2 ed. 724. Berk. Handb. br. m. loi, t. 6, f. 5 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 

 342 (i86g). HoBK. Synops. 166 (1873). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 378 (1884). 

 BouL. Muse. Fr. 68 (1884). HuSN. Muse. gall. 365, t. 104 (1893). 



Hypnum polymorphitm p.p. (non Hedw.) Hook. Tay. Muse. brit. 107 (1818). Rabenh. 

 D. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 279 (1848). Schimp. Bry. eur. fase. 57 — 61, p. 13, t. 3 (1854). Hook. 

 in Eng. Bot. t. 2671. 



Hypnum squarrosulum Bals. de Not. Prodr. Bry. mediol. 92. 



Stereodon chrysophyllus Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. viii, 43 (1864). 



Amblystegium chrysophyllum De Not. Epilogo 148 (1869). 



Hypnum stellatum ' chrysophyllum Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 455 (i8g6). 



Dioicous ; in laxly interwoven glossy yellow-green, or fulvous tufts. 

 Stems elongated, slender flexuose, prostrate, pinnate, the branches 

 decumbent or suberect. Leaves crowded, from an erect concave base, 

 ovato-deltoid, narrowly acuminate or almost subulate, patulo-squarrose, 

 entire, with a very thin nerve to beyond the middle, cells linear, 

 5 — 8 times long as broad, at angles quadrate. Perich. bracts squarrose, 

 ovate, gradually longer and striate, oblongate, subulate at point. 



