HYPNACEiE.J II [Leskea. 



Leskea rupestris Berggr. Bidrag till Skand. Bry. 8 (1867). 



Anomodon rigidulus Kinds. Laubm. Schwed. 11 (1883). 



Lescurcsa rigidula Kinds. Enum. n. 23 {1888). 



Leskea catenulata Var. rupestris Bryhn in Norsk. Mag. naturw. xxxii (i8gi). 



Dioicous ; in dense blackish-greeri or brown depressed tufts. Stem 

 creeping, pinnate, without paraphyllia ; branches crowded, erect. Leaves 

 densely crowded, patent when moist, imbricated when dry, often sub- 

 secund, from an ovato-cordate base,-narrowly lanceolate, recurved at point, 

 margin entire, recurved; nerve ending in the apex. Cells smooth, 

 roundish-hexagonal, rectangular at base, quadrate at angles. Branch- 

 leaves smaller with flat margins and oval cells. Inner perich. bracts 

 suddenly and longly pointed. Capsule on a purple seta, erect, cylindric, 

 regular, brown ; lid conic, rostellate ; peristome small yellowish, teeth 

 lineal-lane, processes of endostome irregular, cilia abortive. 



Hab. — On rocks and tree-stems in mountains, very rare and sterile. Fr. 6. 



Ben Lawers (Stirton 1866) ! 



Sect. 2. EULESKEA Lindb. Capsule narrow, cylindraceous, slightly 

 arched, leptodermous ; teeth whitish ; plants more robust. 



3. LESKEA POLYCARPA Ehr. 



Autoicous ; stem creeping, with erect branches, and subulate 

 paraphyllia. Leaves dingy green, erecto-patent, ovato-lanceolate, 

 entire, nerve vanishing below apex ; cells roundish, papillose. Capsule 

 cylindric, leptodermous. (T. LXXXVI, E.) 



Syn. — Hypnmn repens trichodes arboreum medium, capitulis erectis Dill. Cat. Giss. 216 (1718). 



Hypnum trichodes, capsulis oblongis, in setis brevioribiis Dill. Hist. muse. 331, t. 42, f. 65 



(1741) et Herbar. 

 LesTcea polycarpa Ehrh. Dec. crypt, No. g6 (1788). Roth F1. germ, iii, P. I, 334 fi8oo). 



Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 43, t. i (1801), Sp. muse. II, 74 (1812), Mant. 146 (1819), 



Bry. univ. ii, 314 (1827). Hedw. Sp. muse. 225 (1801). Schultz FI. starg. 509 (1806}. 



Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 2^7 (1807). Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 80 (1813). Schwaeg. 



Suppl. I, P. II, 171 (1816). FuNCK Moost. 54, t. 35 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 584 



(1833). De Not. Syllab. 65 (1838), Epilogo 244 (i86g). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 253 



(1848). Br. Sch. Bry, eur. fasc. 44-45, p. 2, t. i (1850). Wils. Bry. brit. 332 (1855). 



ScHiMP. Synops. 486 (i860), 2 ed. 594. Berk. Handb. br. m. 153 (1863). Milde Bry. 



siles, 259 (i86g). Hobk. Synops. 144 (1873). Boulay Muse. Fr. 168 (1884). Lesq. 



James Moss. N. Amer. 301 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 301, t. 85 {1892). Limpr. in 



Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 762 (1895). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 373 (i8g6). 

 Hypnum medium Dicks. Crypt, fase. II, 12 (1790). W^ither. Bot. arr. 3 ed. iii, 847 



(1796). Turn. Muse. hib. 142 (1804). Sm. Fl. brit. iii, 1280 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1274. 



Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. 93 (i8i8). Gray Nat. arr. i, 753 (1821). 



Hypnum polycarpum Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 67 (1796). Dicks. Fase. crypt. II, 12 (1790). 

 C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 46g (1851). 



Autoicous; in wide soft dingy green tufts. Stem trailing, with 

 erect branches and short filiform paraphyUia. Leaves erecto-patent 



