Hypnace^.] 66 [Amblystegium. 



suec. 62 (1799). Roth Fl. germ, iii, P. I, 325 (1800). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 172 

 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 130 (1812), Mant. 161 (i8iq), Bry. univ. ii, 568 (1827). Smith Fl. 

 brit. 1303 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 2405. Turn. Muse. hib. 164 (1804). P. Beauv. 

 Prodr. 71 (1805). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 320 (1807). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 380 (1812). 

 RoEHL. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 106 (1S13). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 212 (1816). Hook. 

 Tayl. Muse. Br. 97 (1818). Schultz Fl. starg. Suppl. 75 (1819). Funck Moostasch. 

 57, t. 38 (1821). Gray Nat. arr. i, 755 (1821). Wallr. Fl. cr. germ, i, 241 (1831). 

 Hook. Br. fl. ii, 79 (1833). Hueben. Muse. germ. 645 (1833). Mackay Fl. hibern. 39 

 (1836). De Not. Syllab. 21 (1838). Rabenh. D. kr.fl. II, s. 3, 290 (1848). C. Muell. 

 Synops. ii, 378 (1851). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fase. 57—61, p. 49, t. 34 (1854). WiLS. 

 Bry. Br. 373 (1855). Scrimp. Synops. 646 (i860), 2 ed. 792. Berk. Handb. 103, t. 7, 

 f. 4 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 369 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 178 (1873). Boulay Muse. 

 Fr. II (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 405 (1884). Husnot Muse. gall. 417, 

 t. 121 (1894). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 487 (i8g6). 



Amblystegium stramineum De Not. Epilogo 137 (1869). 



Dioicous; plants soft filiform nearly simple, in lax pale green or 

 straw-coloured glossy tufts. Stems 2 — 5 in. high, weak, simple or 

 divided, ramuli none or few short terete and pointed. Leaves erecto- 

 patent, imbricated, ovate-oblong, obtuse and subcucuUate, concave, 

 lightly plicate, excavate at angles and forming hyaline decurrent auricles 

 of large rectangular cells, the upper cells narrowly linear-rhomboidal, 

 nerve thin, reaching to | length of leaf. Perich^tium on a rooting 

 branch, elongated, laxly imbricated, bracts acutely acuminate, inner 

 eroso-dentate at point, with a very thin nerve, not plicate. Capsule on 

 a long thin orange seta, small, cernuous, turgidly oblong or incurvo- 

 cylindraceous, castaneous ; annulus none ; peristome yellow, densely 

 trabeculate, endostome whitish, with 1—2 cilia. 



Hab. — In marshy heaths and among Sphagnum. Fr. 5 — 6. 



Not uneommon in the north. Fruit rare, Stansfield moor, Todmoiden (Nowell) 1 ! 

 Stayley Brushes and Prestwich, Manehester (f. Tinker). Sands of Barry, Dundee 

 (Gardiner). Castle Kelly Glen, Dublin (Taylor). Hale moss, Cheshire (Hunt 1863) 1 I 

 Barloch, Milngavie (McKinlay 1862). 



This moss is remarkable for its long flaccid simple innovations, and is 

 attached to peaty swamps, or the sandy hollows or gutters on the moors, and 

 it is only in the latter kind of places that we may expect to find fruit. The 

 leaves often throw out radicles from the tips. 



42. AMBLYSTEGIUM TRIFARIUM {Web. Mohr) De Sot. 



Dioicous ; in rigid lurid green tufts. Stem erect, scarcely 

 branched. Leaves imbricated, 5-farious, ovate, rounded at apex, 

 concave, nerved to middle. Capsule ovate-oblong, cernuous. 

 (T. XCVII, B.) 



Syn. — Hypnum trifarium Web. Mohr Reise dureh Schweden 177, t. 2 (1804), Bot. Taseh. 319 

 (1807). RoEHL. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 105 (1813). Brid. Sp. muse. II, 127 (1812), Mantissa 

 162 (i8ig), Bry. univ. ii, 567 (1827). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 381 (1812), Fl. suec. ii, 701 

 (1826). FuNCK Moostasch. 57, t. 38 (1821). Schultz Fl. stargard. Suppl. 76 (1819). 



