Hypnace^.] 44 [Amblystegium, 



elongate, acuminate, sulcate. Capsule on an erect neck, cernuous, oval- 

 oblong, slightly incurved ; annulus of 3 rows of cells, peristome as in 

 A . fluitans. Male infl. with many ovate acuminate nerveless bracts. 



Hab. — Moorland bogs and streamlets. Fruit rare 4 — 5. 



A very pretty moss variable in color, sometimes of a golden green at apex 

 with a metallic gloss, and remarkable for the very dense and beautifully 

 circinate leaves, with a single row of elongated rectangular cells at base, 



25, AMBIYSTEGIUM lYCOPODIOIDES {N(clt.) De Not, 



Dioicous ; robust, subpinnate. Leaves crowded, falcato-secund, 

 ovate-acuminate, concave, entire, nerved nearly to apex. Capsule 

 oblong, cernuous. (T. XCIII, C.) 



Syn, — Hypnum lycopodioides Neck. Act. ac. Theod. — palat. ii, 453, t. i, f. 2 (1770), Meth. 

 muse. 168 (1771), Del. Gallo-belg. ii, 479 (1773). Brid. Sp. muse. II, 227 (1812), Mant. 

 180 (i8ig), Bry. univ. ii, 632 (1827). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 300. Schultz Suppl. 

 Fl. Starg. 82 (1819). FuNCK Moost. 66, t. 51 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 699 (1833). 

 Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, sect. 3, 269 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 423 (1851). Br. Sch. 

 Bry . eur. Fasc. 57 — 61, t. 31 (1854). WiLS. Bry. brit. 390 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 

 607 (i860), 2 ed. 732. Berk. Handb. br. m. 118 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 350 (1869). 

 HoBK. Synops. i6g (1873). Boul. Muse. Fr. 51 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 

 385 (1884). Sanio Beschr. Harpid. 60 (1885). Renauld in HusN. Muse. gall. 374 

 (1894). Drx. James. Stud. Handb. 460 (1896). 



Hypnum scorpioides (S. minus Web. Spic. Fl. goett. 67 {1778). 



Hypnum diastrophyllum Lamk. Fl. &anc. i, 528 (1778). 



Hypnum rugosum Swartz Muse. suee. 57 (1799). Smith Fl. brit. 1326 (1804) et Eng. 

 Bot. t. 2250 p.p. Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 362 (1807). Roehl. Deutseh. fl. iii, 

 115 (1813). 



Hypnum aduncmn [i. rugosum Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. iii (1818). Gray Nat. arr. i, 

 765 (1821). 



Hypnum aduncum y. lycopodioides Spreng. (L.) Syst. veg. 16 ed. iv, 201 {1827). 

 Amblystegium lycopodioides De Not. Epilogo 138 (1869). 



Dioicous ; tall in deep soft tufts, pale yellowish brown above, 

 fuscous-black at base. Stems 6 — 9 in. long, flexuoso-erect or decumbent, 

 slender, dichotomous, subpinnate, the branches distant, turgid, with 

 dense leaves, incurved at apex. Leaves crowded, falcato-secund, very 

 large, ovate at base, broadly elongate-lanceolate, slightly decurrent, 

 longly acuminate, flexuoso-sulcate and faintly rugulose when dry, entire, 

 very concave ; nerve slender, vanishing in acumen ; upper cells linear 

 acute, basal long, rectangular, bluntly angular, porose, angular a little 

 dilated, subhexagonal. Perich. bracts imbricated, inner elongate, 

 acuminate, many-sulcate, nerved. Capsule subcylindric, a little con- 



