Hypnace^.] 15 [Anomodon. 



Dioicous ; in loose yellowish-green tufts. Main stem trailing, with 

 rufous radicles ; secondary stems erect, incurved at apex, fasciculate- 

 branched, with slender stolons and flagella. Leaves subsecund, 

 decurrent at base, broadly ovato-lanceolate and tongue-shaped, 

 muticous or with a minute apiculus and a few coarse teeth at apex ; 

 nerve ending below the point, cells very densely papillose on both sides, 

 elongated rectangular in middle of base. Perich. bracts acuminate, 

 patent from the middle. Capsule cylindric, ferruginous, exannulate, 

 elevated above the branches, lid with a long beak ; teeth lanceolate- 

 subulate, processes of endostome filiform, long as the teeth, with cilia. 



Hab. — Rotten trunks of trees and by paths in woods ; very rare, sterile. 



Den of Airlie, Forfarshire (Fergusson 1868) ! ! Ben Lawers. 



A much smaller and more delicate plant than A . vitictdosus and of a paler 

 colour. The fruit has been found most frequently in S. Germany and 

 E. Switzerland. 



3. ANOMODON LONGIFOLIUS (ScMeich.) Hartm. 



Dioicous ; in slender dark green tufts, irregularly branched. 

 Leaves ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, nerved to apex. Capsule • 

 erect, oblong; lid conic, rostellate. (T. LXXXVII, C.) 



Syn. — Hypnum repens trichodes arboreum inaj'us, cauliculis ramosis Dill. Hist. muse. 331, t. 42, 

 f. 66 (1741) et Herb. 



Hypnum attenuatum Sm. F1. brit. 1279 (1804). 



Pterigynandrum longifolium (Schleich.) Catal. (1807), et crypt, helv. cent, iv, n. 8. Brid. 

 Mant. 128 (1819). 



Pterigynandrum nervosum var. longifolium Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 190 (1827). 



Leskea incurvata Myrin Coroll. Fl. Upsal. (1834). 



Leskea longifoUa Spruce Muse. Pyren. No 87 {1847), et Ann. Mag. Nat. hist. 1849, 

 I, 289. Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 255 (1848). Boul. Muse. Fr. 166 (1884). 



Anomodon lungifolius Hartm. Skand. fl. 5 ed. (1849). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 44—45, 

 p. 3, t. I (1850). WiLS. Bry. brit. 319, t. 54 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 489 (i86o), 2 ed. 

 599. Berk. Handb. br. m. 152 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 261 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 

 141 (1873). Husn. Muse. gall. 303, t. 86 (1892). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. 

 Laubm. ii, 776 (1895). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 375 (i8g6). 



Hypnum longifolium C. Muell. Synops. ii, 474 (1851). 



Dioicous; slender, laxly tufted, deep green. Secondary stems 

 erect, long, often filiform, vaguely and fasciculate-branched, branches 

 slender, often becoming flagelliform with small leaves. Leaves flexuoso- 

 patulous and subsecund, from an ovate base, lineal-lanceolate, acute, 

 entire, bisulcate at base, nerve yellow, vanishing in apex ; cells roundish- 



