Hypnace^.] 12 \Anomodon. 



when moist, appressed when dry, sometimes subsecund, from a cordate- 

 ovate base, gradually lanceolate, concave, biplicate, entire, the margin 

 recurved below; nerve vanishing below apex. Cells hyaline, lepto- 

 dermous, roundish-hexagonal, quadrate at base, papillose on both sides. 

 Perich. bracts sheathing, elongated at points and the cells elongated. 

 Capsule on a red seta, erect, cylindraceous, slightly arcuate, much con- 

 tracted below the orange mouth when dry, leptodermous, yellowish- 

 brown ; Hd pointed, conical, annulus of 2—3 rows of cells. Peristome 

 yellowish-white, strongly incurved, the teeth lineal; processes of 

 endostome lineal-subulate, cilia wanting. Male infl. gemmiform, bracts 

 broadly oval, short, obtuse. 



Hab. — About tree roots in damp places by streams. Fr. 5 — 6. 



Var. /?. paludosa {Hedw.) Schimp. 



More robust, with longer obtuse branches, leaves larger, less crowded, 

 patulous. Capsule longer, reddish-brown. 



SYtt.—Leskea paludosa Hedw. Muse, frond, iv, 1, t. i (1793), Fl. danica t. 1662. Brid. Sp. 

 muse. II, 15, Mant. 147, Bry. univ. ii, 315. Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 246. Schwaeg. 

 Suppl. I, P. II, 172. RoEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 85. 



Hypnum palustre Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 64. 



Hypnum inundatum Dicks. Crypt, fasc. IV, 17. Sm. Fl. brit. iii, 1281, Eng. Bot. t. 

 1922. Turn. Muse. hib. 143. 



Hypnum paludosum P. Beauv. Prodr. 67. 



Leskea palustris Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 38. 



Leskea polycarpa Var /3. paludosa Schimp. Synops. 486. 



Hab.— On tree roots liable to inundation ; the variety where moisture is 



more permanent. 



From the nature of the locality it is seldom, that clean specimens can be 

 obtained, a coat of fine mud being usually deposited upon them. 



3. ANOMODON Hook. Tayl. 



Muse. brit. 79 (1818). 



Primary stem creeping stoloniform, with small leaves ; secondary 

 stems erect or ascending, with few irregular ramuli, without paraphyllia. 

 Leaves opake, crowded, patent or subsecund, minutely areolate, 

 papillose on both sides. Fruit on the secondary stems ; capsule oblong 

 or cylindraceous, regular, coriaceous, not contracted below the mouth. 

 Annulus narrow or none. Calyptra cucullate. Peristome of i6 teeth, 

 pale, lineal-lanceolate, without lamellas, or yellowish with faint lamellas ; 



