HvPNACEiE.] 14 [Anomodon. 



or falcato-secund, crispate when dry, spreading when moist, ovato- and 

 oblongo-lanceolate, tongue-shaped, obtuse, hghtly undulate and entire 

 at margin, sometimes erose at apex, very densely areolate and obscure 

 with minute roundish-hexagonal cells, minutely papillose, those at 

 middle of leaf base elongated and rectangular; nerve strong, whitish, 

 vanishing below apex. Inner perich. bracts from an elongate base, 

 linear, nerved ; seta long, yellowish-brown. Capsule erect or inclined, 

 cylindraceous, straight or a little curved, glossy rufo-ferruginous, 

 longitudinally plicate when empty ; lid narrowly conic, obliquely 

 rostellate ; annulus narrow, of 2 rows of cells. Peristome small, 

 whitish, teeth narrow, lanceolate, without lamellae, often irregular ; 

 endostome with a narrow basal membrane, the processes filiform, 

 fragile and irregular. Male infl. ovate, the bracts nerved. 



Hab. — Stony ground in calcareous districts, by shady walls and trunks of 

 trees ; common. Fr. 3—4, rare. 



The fruit is most frequently produced in damp, shady places, as near the 

 base of walls and in damp woods. The white, translucent nerve is 

 generally somewhat flexuose below the apex, and is a marked feature in 

 the leaf. 



2. ANOMODON ATTENUATUS (Schnb.) Hueben. 



Dioicous ; slender, with much branched secondary stems. Leaves 

 subsecund, broadly ovato-lanceolate, with a minute apiculus and a few 

 apical teeth. Capsule erect, cylindric, lid rostrate. (T. LXXXVII, B.) 



Syn. — HypHum repens filkinum ramosum, ramulis surrectis et minus complanatis Dill. Cat. 

 Giss. 218 (1718). 



Hypnum arboreum erectum, friiticuli specie, ramulis compressis Dill. op. c. 220. 



Hypnum filicinum sericeum, molle et pallidum, mucronibus aduncis. Var. non splendens 

 Dill. Hist. muse. 287, t. 36, f. 22 C (1741), et Herbar. 



Hypnum heterofihyllum aquaticum, polycephalum, repens. Var. rigidior et ramosior Dill. 

 op. c. 293, t. 37, f. 27 B. et Herbar. 



Hypnum attenuatum Schree. F1. lips. 100 {1771). Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 67 (1796). 

 C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 473 (1851). 



Lcslica attciiuata Hedw. Muse, frond, i, 33, t. 12 (1787), Sp. muse. 230(1801). Roth. Fl. 

 germ, iii, P. I, 333 (1800). Brid. muse. ree. II, P. II, 39, t. 3 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 76 

 (1812), Mant. 147 {1819), Bry. univ. ii, 317 (1827). Schultz. Fl. starg. 311 (1806). 

 Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 249 (1807). Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 87 (1813). Schwaeg. 

 Suppl. I, P. II, 172 (1816). De Not. Syllab. 65 (1838). Boulay Muse. Fr. 165 (1884). 



Anomodon aitenuatus Hueeen. Muse. germ. 562 (1833). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 255 

 (1848). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 44—45. '• 2 (1850). Schimp. Synops. 490 (i860), 2 ed. 

 600. MiLDE Bry. siles. 262 (1869). De Not. Epilogo 250 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 140 

 (1873). HusN. Muse. gall. 304, t, 86 (1892). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 

 774 (1895). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 375 (i8g6). 



Neckera attenuata Myrin Coroll. fi. upsal. (1834). 



