Hypnace^.] 58 [Amblystegium. 



Autoicous ; dull green, in very soft loose tufts. Stems long, slender, 

 without radicles, naked at base, simple or but little branched, readily 

 falling asunder. Leaves patent on all sides, very soft, not glossy, 

 elliptic-oval, contracted at insertion, gradually narrowed to an acute or 

 muticous point, feebly serrulate at apex ; nerve cleft or split into 3 — 5 

 unequal divisions, the longest reaching middle ; cells thinner, shorter, 

 linear-fusiform, short at apex, at slightly auriculate angles quadrate 

 with orange walls. Lower perich. bracts patulous from middle, inner 

 erect, broad, elongate, gradually acuminate, serrulate at apex, nerveless, 

 not sulcate. Capsule on a short seta, turgid oval, incurvo-cernuous, 

 annulus very broad. Male infl. numerous, thick, ovate, bracts imbricated, 

 ovate, obtuse with a crenulate margin. 



Hab. — Stones in mountain streams. Fr. 8. 



Cairngorum (Herb. Borrer) ! Ben Nevis (Hooker) ! ! Ben Mac Dhui (Hunt 1868) ! ! 



Var. )S. ScMmperi Lorentz. 



More slender, in dense, olivaceous, soft turgid tufts. Leaves J smaller, 

 more acuminate, obtuse, nerves shorter. 



Syn. — Hypnum Schimperianum Lorentz Moosstudien 123, t. 5 (1864). 

 Hyp. molU Var. Schimferiantim Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 775. 

 Amblystegium molle Var. Schimperi Lindb. Muse, scand 33. 



Hab. — Lochnagar {Fergussori). 



This species and the last are very closely allied, and have been much 

 confused with each other and with A. alpestre Swartz, they have however a 

 very diflferent habit, colour and texture, and should I think be kept distinct. 

 A . alpestre has the habit of 7noUe, but the leaves are very concave, oval with a 

 short recurved apiculus, the median cells very long and linear, and those of 

 the basal angles orange large and rectangular. I have not seen the variety 

 Schimperi. 



35. AMBLYSTEGIUM OCHBACEXTM {Turn.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; stems suberect, taller, flaccid, little branched. Leaves 

 secund, ovato-lanceolate, concave, rather obtuse, with a forked nerve, 

 reaching middle. Perich. bracts recurved, capsule cernuous, with a 

 longish neck. (T. XCV, D.) 



Sys.— Hypnum ochraceum Turner in Herb. Wils. Bry, brit. 400, t. 58 (1855). Schimp. 

 Synops. 639 (i86o), 2 ed. 782. Berk. Handb. br. m. 126 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 

 375 (1869). HoBK. Synops. 177 (1873). Boulay Muse. Fr. 20 (1884). Lesq. James 

 Moss. N. Amer. 401 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 411, t. 119 (1894). Dix. Jaues. Stud. 

 Handb. 485 (1896). 



