Hypnace^.] 8 [Thuidium. 



Sect. 3. ELODIUM S«//. Stem tall, erect, pinnate ; densely tomentose, 

 branches arranged in a single row on each side ; growing in bogs. 



6. THUIDIUM BLANDOWII {Weh. Mohr) Schimp. 



Autoicous ; stem erect, densely villose, pinnate. Leaves imbricated, 

 subcordate, spreading at base, acute, carinate, serrulate, nerved. 

 Capsule oblong, curved, cernuous, lid conic. (T. LXXXVI, B.) 



Syn. -Hypntim Blandovii Weber Mohr Bot. Tasch. 332 (1807). Sturm Deutsch. fl. II, 9 

 (1809). Brid. Sp. Muse. II, 132 (1812), Mant. 163 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 576 (1827). 

 RoEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 105 (1813). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 233, et II, P. I, 158, t. 

 142. Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. 104 (1818). Schultz Fl. starg. Suppl. 76 (1819). Gray 

 Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 760 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 660 (1833). Hook. Br. fl. li, 87 

 (1833). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 263 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 454 (1851). 

 WiLS. Bry. br. 378 (1855). Berk. Handb. Br. m. no (1863). Hobk. Synops. 145 

 (1873). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 326 (1884). 



Hypnum abietinum SwARTz Muse. suee. 54 (1799). Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 2037 (spec. c. fr.). 



Hypnum affine Crome Samml. Nachlief. 2, n. 20. 



Hypnum abietinum p. paludosum Wahlenb. Fl. suee. ii, 6g8 (1826). 



Hypnum laricinum Wils. M.S. in Hook. Br. fl. ii, 87 (1833), Eng. Bot. t. 2760. 



Thuidium Blandowii Schimp. Bry. eur. F. 49 — 51, p. 10, t. 6 {1852), Synops. 500 (i860), 

 2 ed. 616. Milde. Bry. siles. 268 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 194 (1884). Husn. 

 Muse. gall. 310, t. 89 (1892). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 841 (1895). 

 Dix. & James. Stud. Handb. 382 (1896). 



Autoicous ; tall and densely csespitose, deep green above, yellowish 

 at base. Stem pinnate, erect, 2 — 3-partite, densely villose with much 

 branched pale paraphyllia ; branches distichous, crowded, divergent, 

 sub-flagelliform, flexuose. Cauline leaves large, soft, imbricated, 

 decurrent, carinate, patent at base and subsquarrose, cordate-acuminate, 

 with irregular longitudinal plaits, nerve thin, vanishing near apex ; 

 margin reflexed, faintly serrate, bearing long branched paraphyllia at 

 basal angles ; cells elongated rhombic, smooth in front, with long papillae 

 at back. Branch leaves broadly ovate-acuminate, serrate, sulcate, 

 somewhat twisted when dry, the nerve f the length. Perich. bracts 

 ovato-lanc. acuminate, erect, toothed at apex; seta orange. Caps, 

 oblongo-cylindric, ferruginous, subarcuate, cernuous; lid conic, pointed, 

 annulus broad ; teeth of peristome orange, long, densely articulate, 

 endostome yellowish, processes nearly entire, cilia 3, long and perfect. 

 Male infl. small, bracts erecto-patent, acuminate. 



Hab. — Moorland bogs, rare. Fr. 5. 



Tunbridge, Kent (Woods). Knutsford moor, Cheshire, c. fr. (Wilson 1832) ! ! Terrington 

 Carr (Spruce) ! ! now extinct. 



