HvPNACEiE.] 6i [Amhlystegium. 



Hab. — In similar localities on wood. 



Var. y. subsphseriearpon (Schleich.). 



More robust, much branched, the branches simple incurved at points ; 

 leaves larger, very concave, with incurved margins, falcato-secund, nerved 

 to f their length. Capsule short, turgid oval. 



Syn. — Hypnum subspharicarpon Schleich. Cent. Plant. II, n. 46. Brid. Sp. muse. II, 232. 

 Bry. univ. ii, 641. Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 302. 



Limnobium palustre Var. subsphcsricarpon Bry. eur. 1. c. 



Limnobium subsphcericarpon De Not. Epilogo 162. 



Hab. — In more alpine situations, not common. 



Ochil glen {Lyle 1852). Helk's wood, Ingleton {Wilson). Pentland hills {GrevilU). 

 Portree, Skye and Marple, Cheshire (Hunt 1863) ! ! Grasmere (Barnes 1868) ! i Stocl< 

 Ghyll Force (Whalley 1885). Near Carrickfergus (Rev. C. A. yohns). 



So polymorphous is this species that a long series of varieties might be 

 set up, without much benefit, as they do not appear to maintain their stability, 

 and even two forms of nerve may be found in leaves from the same plant. 



37. AMBLYSTEGITJM EUGYRIUM {ScUmp.) Lindb. 



Autoicous ; in depressed yellow-green tufts, much branched. 



Leaves crowded, secund, erecto-patent, oblongo-lanceolate, acuminate, 



nerve none or two short faint lines ; auricles orange, of rectangular 



cells. Perich. bracts lanceolate, dentittulate at apex. Capsule arcuate, 



cylindric, annulus large. (T. XCV, F.) 



Syn. — Limnobium eugyrium Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 62 — 64, Suppl. t. i (1855). 



Hypnum eugyrium Schimp. Synops. 639 (i860), -^ ed. 781. Berk. Handb. xxxv (1863). 

 MiLDE Bry. siles. 373 (1869). Hoek. Synops. 177 (1873). Boulay Muse. Fr. 21 (1884). 

 Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 401 {1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 411, t. 119 (1894). Dix. 

 James. Stud. Handb. 484 (1896). 



Amhlystegium eugyrium Lindb. Muse, scand. 33 (1879). 



Autoicous ; in bright yellow-green soft depressed tufts ; stems much 

 branched. Leaves variable in form, crowded, cauline turned to two 

 sides, oblongo-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, concave, margin often 

 incurved above, apex minutely denticulate; nerve none, or very short, 

 bifurcate and faint ; cells short linear, the basal angular cells large 

 inflated, orange-brown or hyaline, forming small well-defined auricles ; 

 ramuline secund, flexuoso-falcate, elongato-lanceolate, curved. Perich. 

 bracts patulous from the middle, the inner long whitish, erect, lanceolate, 

 plicate, nerved above middle, denticulate at apex. Capsule cernuous, 

 oblong, turgid, yellow-brown, annulus very broad, of 2 — 3 rows of cells, 



