Hypnace^.] 46 [Amblystegium. 



Amberley Wild Brook, Sussex (Borrer 1811). Wybunbury bog, Cheshire (Wilson) ! ! 

 Fourdon, Kincardine {Sim 1870). Auchinblae (Hunt 1871). Sutton Park (Bagnall). 

 Kinder Scout (Holt). 



This moss was sent by Hedwig to Turner named Hypnum aduncum, and is 

 well distinguished by the strongly sulcate leaves and basal cells. The fruit is 

 very rare, but was found by Wilson on the famous Wybunbury bog. 



Var. p. majus {Lindb.). 



Plants robust, fuscescent. Leaves larger, flexuose, narrowed into a 

 very long attenuated acumen. 



Hab. — Minton Beach, Longmynd, Shropshire {R. de G. Benson 1893) ! ! 



27. AMBLYSTEGIUM ADUNCUM (L.) Lindb. 



Autoicous ; in glossy pale green tufts. Leaves long, broadly 

 lanceolate, strongly plicate, falcato-secund, running into a subserrulate 

 incurved subula. Caps, subarcuate, cylindraceous. (T. XCIV, A.) 



Syn. — Hypnum caule ercctiusctilo snbramoso, foliis secundis recurvatis subulatis, ramulis 

 recurvatis L. Fl. suecica 320 (1745) excl. syn. Dill. 



Hypnum aduncum L. Sp. plant. 1126 (1753) et Herbar. 



Hypnum uncinatum Hedw. Muse, frond, iv, 65, t. 25 (1797), Sp. muse. 289 (1801). 

 SwARTz Muse. suec. 56 (1799). Roth Fl. Germ, iii, 288 (1800). Brid. Muse. rec. II, 

 P. II, 133 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 225 {1812), Mant. 180 (iSig), Bry. univ. ii, 629 (1827). 

 Smith Fl. brit. 1328 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1600. Turn. Muse. hib. igo (1804). Schultz 

 Fl. Starg. 326 (i8o6). Roehl. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 115 (1813). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 

 304 (1816). Mart. Fl. cr. erl. 38 (1817). Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. in (1818). Hook. 

 Fl. seot. P. 2, 147 (1821), Br. Fl. ii, 94 (1833). Funck Moostaseh. 67, t. 53 (1821). 

 Gray Nat. Arr. i, 765 (1821). Hueeen. Muse. germ. 695 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 52 

 (1838). Rabenh. D. Icr. fl. II, S. 3, 275 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 322 (1851). 

 13r. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 57 — 61, p. 31, t. 20 (1854). WiLS. Bry. br. 394 (1855). 

 ScHiMP. Synops. 612 (i860), 2 ed. 739. Berk. Handb. 119 (1863). Milde Bry. siles.. 

 347 (1869). HoBK. Synops. 169 (1873). BouL. Muse. Fr. 53 (1884). Lesq. James 

 Moss. N. Amer. 382 (1884). Sanio Beschr. 18 (1885). HuSN. Muse. gall. 377 (1894). 

 Dix. James. Stud. Handbj463 (1896). 



Amblystegium uncinatum De Not. Epilogo 141 (i86g). 



Amblystegium aduncum Lindb. Muse, scand. 33 (1879). 



Autoicous ; in pale or dull yellowish-green tufts, tall or depressed. 

 Stem suberect or prostrate, remotely pinnate, branches attenuate, 

 falcato-incurved at apex. Leaves long, strongly falcato-secund, cauline 

 broadly lanceolate, passing into a minutely serrulate incurved subula, 

 slightly decurrent at angles, ramuline smaller and narrower, both 

 strongly sulcate, rather rigid, with a thin nerve high into the point ; 

 cells very narrow, long and flexuose, laxer at base, few, rectangular and 

 hyaline at angles. Perichastium very long, outer bracts recurved from 

 middle, inner very long with a long filiform apiculus, sharply serrate at 

 apex, thin-nerved, deeply sulcate. Capsule on a long purple seta, 



