Hypnace^.] 53 [Amblystegium. 



Hab.— Southport {Holt 1881) ! ! 



Very distinct as a variety and readily known by the short falcate leaves, 

 with short cells and nerve. 



Var. S. intermedium Schimp. 



Submersed, yellowish-green ; stems elongated, sparingly and irregularly 

 pinnate. Leaves very variable, oblong-ovate, lanceolate, cuspidate, scarcely 

 secund, nerved above half-way ; the ramuline subfalcate, ovate, shortly 

 acuminate ; median cells very long, linear. 



Syn. — Hypnum aduncum Var. hitermedium Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 727. Bry. eur. Suppl. fasc. 

 3 — 4, t. 1, B I — 8. Sanio Beschr. Harpid. 27. 



Hab. — Strensall common, York {Holt 1886) ! ! Southport and Hale moss 

 {Holt 1882) 1 ! a very lax form. 



Var. e. polycarpon Bland. 



Stems procumbent, with numerous slender branches, vaguely ramulose. 

 Leaves patent or erect, or subsecund, rather distant, falcato-secund at apex, 

 broadly ovate at base, lanceolate, cuspidate, nerved to or beyond middle, 

 median cells very long and linear, suprabasal lax, quadrate. 



Syn, — Hypnum polycarpon Blandow in Sturm Deutsch. FI. Crypt, fasc. 14. Hueben. Muse, 

 germ. 6go. 



Hyp. aduncum Var. polycarpon Schimp, Bry. eur. et Synops. Sanio, Renauld, &c. 



Hab. — Henfield Level, Sussex {Mitten). 



Var. ^. pungens H. Muell. 



Stems divided into simple branches or slightly ramulose, the apical 

 leaves convolute in a long cuspidate point, the lower ovato-lanceolate, patent, 

 upper ovate, acutely cuspidate, subimbricated, nerve J length of leaf, basal 

 cells but little dilated, upper long and linear. 



Syn. — Hyp. Kneiffii S. pungens H. Muell. in Milde Bry. siles. 351. 

 Hyp. aduncum Var. pungens Sanio, Renauld, &c. 



Hab. — Pits near Knutsford, Cheshire {Holt 1895) ' ' 



Var. 17. pseudofontanum Sanio, 



Stems elongated, very slender, floating, pinnate with very short branches 

 or nearly simple. Leaves falcato-secund at apex, cauline leaves distant, 

 patent, fiexuose, denticulate at margin, from an ovate base, lanceolate and 

 extended into a very long slender twisted acumen, or very narrowly 

 lanceolate-acuminate ; nerve | length of leaf, basal cells rectangular, lax and 

 incrassate. 



Hab.— Oakmere, Cheshire {Holt 1887) ! ! 



Var. 6. paternum Sanio, 



