HYPNACEiE.] 13 [Anomodon. 



endo&tome with a short carinate basal membrane and short filiform 

 processes, with rudimentary cilia. Growing on shady ground, rocks 

 and trunks of trees. — Der. avo/xos irregular, and oSous a tooth. 



A genus of some 30 species, six of which are found in Europe. The 

 main stem is stoloniform with erect secondary stems with few branches, or 

 depressed and much branched and flagelliferous. 



Clavis to the Species. 



Leaves tongue-shaped obtuse. 



Robust, little-branched ; leaves entire. mticulosus. 



Slender, much-branched ; leaves serrulate at point. attenuatus. 

 ovato-Ianceolate, acuminate, longifoUus. 



I, ANOMODON VITICULOSUS (L.) Hook. Tayl. 



Dioicous ; robust, with erect secondary stems. Leaves spreading, 

 subsecund, ovato-lingulate, obtuse, entire ; nerve whitish, vanishing 

 below apex. Capsule erect, subcylindric, lid conico-rostellate. 

 (T. LXXXVII, A.) 



SvN.—Hypnum repens trUhodes arboreum majus, capituUs et surcuUs ereclis, minus ramosis Dill. 

 Cat. Giss. 216 {1718). 



Hypnum subhirsutum, viticulis gracUibus erectis, capsuUs teretibus Dill. Hist. muse. 307, 

 t. 39, f. 43 {1741) et Herbar. 



Hypnum viticulosum L. Sp. pi. 1127 (1753), Syst. nat. ii, 704. Huds. F1. angl. 425 (1762). 

 Weiss Crypt, goett. 241 (1770). Schreb. Spic. Fl. Lips. 94 (1771). Neck. Meth. 

 muse. 169 (1771). With. Bot. arr. ii, 686 (1776). Liqhtf. Fl. scot, ii, 754 (1777), 

 Eng. Bot. t. 265. Relh. Fl. cant. 412 (1785). Hoffm. Deuts. Fl. ii, 47 (1796). 

 C. Muell. Synops. ii, 472 (1851). 



Neckera viticulosa Hedw. Fund. II, 93 (1782), Sp. muse. 209, t. 48 (1801). Sibth. FI. 

 oxon. 304 (1794). SwARTz Muse. suec. 71 (1799). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 15 (1801), 

 Sp. muse. II, 37 (1812), Mant. 138 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 231 (1827J. Sm. Fl. brit. 1275 

 (1804). Turn. Muse. bib. 103 (1804). Schultz Fl. starg. 307 (1806). Web. Mohr 

 Bot. Tasch. 240 (1807). Voit Muse. herb. 69 (1812). Roehl. Deutseh. fl. iii, 83 (1813). 

 Wahlen. Fl. earpat. 355 (18x4). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 149 (1816). Mart. Fl. cr. 

 erl. 51 (1817). 



Anomodon mticulosus Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 79, t. 22 (1818). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 

 748 {1821). Hook. Fl. scot. II, 138 (1821). Spreng. (L.) Syst. Veg. 16 ed. iv, 186 

 (1827). HuEBEN, Muse. germ. 564 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 73 (1838), Epilogo 250 

 (1869). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. ii, 3, p. 250 {1848). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 44 — 45, t. 3 

 (1850). WiLS. Bry. brit. 318, t. 22 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 490 (i860), 2 ed. 601. 

 Berk. Handb. br. m. 151, t. 13 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 262 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 

 140 (1873). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 306 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 304, t. 86 

 (1892). LiMPR. in Raben. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 772 (1895). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 

 375 (1896). 



Leskea viticulosa Spruce Ann. Mag. Nat. hist. 2 ser. iii, 289 (1849). Boulay Muse. Fr. 

 164 (1884). 



Dioicous ; robust in dense-leaved rigid tufts, deep green or yellow- 

 green above, ochraceous below. Primary stem elongated, creeping 

 simple, with small leaves, secondary erect or geniculate-ascending, 

 simple or with a few innovations, stoloniferous at base. Leaves secund 



