Hypnace^e.] 4r [Amhlystegium. 



SYtt.—Hyptium aduncum p.p. Br. eur. fasc. 57—61, t. 24 (i8';4), et auct. var. Schimp. 

 Synops. 606 (i860). ^ ' 



HypHum Sendtneri Schimp. Bry. eur. Suppl. fasc. 3—4, 't. 2 (1866), Synops. 2 ed. 730 

 (1876). MiLDE Bry. Siles. 352 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 168 (1873). BouL. Muse. 

 Fr. 57 (1884). Renauld in Husn. Muse. gall. 373, t. 107 (1804). Dix. James. Stud. 

 Handb. 459 (1896). 



Amhlystegium Sendtneri De Not. Epil. 139 (1869). 



Hypnum aduncum £ legitimum Sanio Beschr. der Harpidien 38 (1885). 



Dioicous ; in lax extensive tufts, yellowish-green or brownish above, 

 ferruginous or brown at base. Stems 4 — 10 in. long, simple slender 

 flexuose, pinnate, the branches patulous, incurved at apex. Leaves 

 crowded, membranous, circinato-falcate and secund, broadly ovate at 

 base, lanceolate with a long point, rather glossy, lightly striate when 

 dry, excavate at the slightly decurrent angles ; nerve rather strong, 

 continued beyond middle ; cells at base elongato-rectangular, narrower 

 at margin, hyaline, at angles incrassate, subquadrate, orange-brown, 

 upper cells linear vermicular. Perich. bracts numerous, outer smaller, 

 patulous, inner appressed, elongato-lanceolate, sulcate, nerved to apex. 

 Capsule on a long red seta, from an erect neck, cernuous or horizontal, 

 oblongo-cylindric, subarcuate, contracted below mouth, irregularly 

 sulcate ; lid convex, apiculate, annulus broad, compound, teeth large 

 orange with a hyaline border. Male infl. gemmiform, bracts ovate, 

 acute, nerveless. 



Hab. — Moorland bogs and marshes, not common. Fr. 6 — 7. 



Amberley, Sussex (Borrcy 1813, c. fr.). Marshes at Southport (Wilson 1858)! ! Hale 

 moss, Cheshire (Wilson). Above Bracklin falls, Callander (Braithwaite) ! ! Not 

 uncommon on the moors of N. Yorkshire. 



Var. /3. Wilsoni {Schimp.) Lindh. 



Plants 6 — 12 in. long, simple or remotely and irregularly pinnate, soft 

 and slender. Leaves larger, more distant, prolonged into a filiform acumen, 

 arcuate, basal angles smaller, less excavate, basal cells shorter and laxer. 



Syn. — Hypnum aduncum Bry. eur. p.p. 



Hypnum Sendtneri fj. Wilsoni Schimp. Bry. eur. Suppl. fasc. 3 — 4, t. 3. Synops. 2 ed. 

 731. BouL. Muse. Fr. 58. 



Amhlystegium Wilsoni Lindb. Muse. Scand. 33. 



Hypnum Wilsoni Renauld Rev. bryol. 1881, p. 75. 



Hypnum lycopodioides ' Wilsoni Renauld in Husn. Muse. gall. 375. 



Hypnum aduncum 8 molle Sanio Beschr. Harp. 36. 



Hab. — Ainsdale, Southport sands {Wilson 1858 c. fr.) ! ! 



Sands of Barrie, Dundee (Fergusson 1871). Strensall Common, York (Holt 1886) ! ! Near 

 Oxford (Boswell 1894) 1 1 Shore of Loch Neagh (Rev. H. W. Lett 1886) ! I 



