HvPNACEiE.] 1 8 [Amhlystegium. 



Syn. — Hypnmn repens filicinum, irichodes palustre Dill. Cat. Giss. 218 (1719), et in Ray 

 Synops. 3 ed. 85, n. 31 (1724), Hist. muse. 286, t. 36, f. 2i (1741) et Herbar. 



Hypnum filicinum L. Sp. pi. 1125 (1753). Huds. FI. angl. 422 (1762). Neck. _Meth. 

 muse. 164 (1771). Wither. Bot. arr. Br. veg. ii, 684 (1776). Lightf. F1. seot. ii, 748 

 (1777). Wee. Spie. fl. goett. 56 (1778). Relh. F1. cant. 410 (1785). Roth. Tent. fl. 

 germ, i, 467 (1788). Sibth. Fl. oxon. 294 {1794). Abbot Fl. Bedf. 247 (1798)- 

 SwARTZ Muse. suae. 55 (1799). Hf.dw. Sp. muse. 285 T. 76, f. 7 — 10 (180 1). Smith 

 Fl. brit. 1334 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1570. Turn. Muse. hib. 197 (1804). Brid. Sp. 

 Muse. II, 210 (1812), Mant. 177 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 527 (1S27). Roehl. Deutseh. Fl. 

 iii, 114 (1813). ScHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 297 (1816). Mart. Fl. cr. erl. 35 (1817). 

 Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. 109 (1818). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 764 (1821). Hook. Fl. 

 seot. P. 2, 147 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 92 (1833). Hueben. Muse. germ. 689 (1833). De Not. 

 Syllab. 52 (1838). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 277 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 419 (1851I. 

 Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 57 — 61, p. 40, T. 27 (1854). WiLS. Bry. brit. 392 (1855). 

 ScHiMP. Synops. 614 (i860), ^ ed. 740. Berk. Handb. Br. m. 121, t. 10, f. 6 (1863). 

 Hobk. Synops. 170 (1873). BouL. Muse. Franee 48 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. 

 N. Amer. 386 (1884). 



Hypnum dubium Neck. Math. muse. 161 (1771). Dicks. Crypt. Fase. Ill, 10 (1793). 

 Wither. 3 ed. iii, 854 (1796). Sm. Fl. brit. 1332. Eng. Bot. t. 2126. Turn. Muse, 

 hib. 195. 



Hypnum affine and H. extricatum HoFFM. Deutseh. fl. ii, 61 (1795). 



Hypnum compressum Brid. Muse. ree. II, P. II, 58 (1801). 



Amblystegium filicinum De Not. Epilogo 150 (1869). Milde Bry. siles. 325 (i86g). 

 HusN. Muse. gall. 361, t. 103 (1893). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 445 (i8g6). 



Dioicous ; prostrate or ascending, bright green or with a golden 

 yellow tint. Stem rigid, pinnate, densely tomentose, and with a few 

 short lanceolate paraphyllia. Cauline leaves from a dilated base, with 

 large impressed auricles and lax pellucid rectangular cells, hastato- 

 acuminate, patent, falcate, the upper cells short and pachydermous ; 

 margin erect, serrulate ; nerve strong, yellow, continued to apex. 

 Perich. bracts lanceolate, acuminate, subplicate, serrate at apex, with 

 lax cells and thin nerve. Capsule oblong or cylindric, subarcuate, 

 cernuous, lid convex-conic, apiculate ; teeth lineal-subulate, yellow, 

 processes nearly entire with 2 — 3 long slender cilia. 



Hab.— Wet banks and about springs, especially on limestone, common. 

 Fr. 4-5. 



Var. Ii. trichodes Brid. 



Stem prostrate, pinnate, branches slender, incurved, acute. Leaves 

 small, patent or secund. 



Syn. — Hypnum irichodes Brid. Sp. muse. II, 236 (1812). 

 Hyp. filicinum fi. irichodes Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 529. 

 Hyp. filicinum Var. gracilescens Schimf. Synops. 614. 



Hab. — Wet grassy ditches. Malham {Wesley) ! Langdon Beck, Upper 

 Teesdale [R. Barnes 1886) ! ! 



Var. y. elatum. Schimp. 



