Hypnace^.] 70 [Hypnum. 



Syn. — Miiscus trichodes medhis ramosus, folih albis mollibns dentimlatis dispositis Ray Synops. 

 2 ed. 39 (1696). 



Hypnum t^rrestre erectiim, ramulis icretibus foliis inter rotunda et acuta medio modo se 

 habentibus Dill. Cat. Giss. 220 (1719) et in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 81 (1724). 



Hypnum cupressiforme vulgare, foliis obfusis DlLL. Hist. muse. 309, t. 40, f. 45 (1741) et 

 Herbar. 



Hypnum illecebrum L. Fl. suec. n. 1032 (1716). Swartz Muse. suec. 61 (1799). Eng. Bot. 

 t. 2189, f. 2. Brid. Muse. Rec. II, P. II, 91 (1801). 



Hypnum pttrum h. Sf. ^\. 1128 (1753). HuDs. Fl. angl. 427 {1762). Weiss Cr. Goetf. 

 249 (1770). Neck. Meth. muse. 160 (1771), Del. gallo-belg. (1773). Wither. Bot. air. 

 ii, 588 (T776). LiGHTF. Fl. Scot, ii, 758 (1777). Weber Spic. Fl. Goett. 7S (177S). 

 Relh. Fl. cant. 414 (1785). Roth Fl. germ, i, 470 (1788). Sibth. Fl. oxon. 300 

 (1794). Abbot FI. Bedf. 250 (1798). Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 58 (1795). Swartz 

 Muse. suec. 60 {1799). Hedw. Sp. muse. 253, t. 66, £ 3 — 6 (1801). Brio. Muse. rec. 

 II, P. II, 88 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 122 (1812), Mant. 160 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 425 (1827). 

 Sm. Fl. brit. 1313 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1599. Turn. Muse. hib. 175 (1804). P. Beauv. 

 Prodr. 68 (1805). Schultz Fl. starg. 318 {1806). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 316 (1S07). 

 VoiT Muse. herb. 114 (1812). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 372 (1812), Fl. carpat. 357 (1814). 

 Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 106 (1813). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 226 (1816). Hook. Tay. 

 Muse. brit. 98 (1818). Hartm. Skand. fl. Hook. Fl, scot. P. II, 143 (1821). Gray 

 Nat. arr. br, pi. i, 756 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 64S (1833). De Not. Syll. 21 

 (1838). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, s. 3, 288 (1848). Wils. Br>-. brit. 376 (1855). Br. Sch. 

 Bry. eur. fasc. 57 — 61, t. 38 (1854). Schimp. Synops. 646 (i860), 2 ed. 791. Berk. 

 Handb. br. m. 109, t. S (1863). Mu.de Bry. siles. 371 (iS6g). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 179 

 (1S73). Boulay Muse. Fr. 16 (1S84). Husx. Muse. gall. 419, t. 122 (1894). 



Hylocomium piirum De Not. Epil. 91 (1869). 



Hypnum (Scleropodium) punim Lindb. Muse, scand. 34 (1S79). 



Brachythecivm punim Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 410 (1896). 



Scleropodium purum Limpr. Rabenh. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 147 (1S97). 



Dioicous ; in soft lax 3ellowish-green or pale tufts. Stem flexuoso- 

 prostrate or ascending, 3 — 6 in. long, more or less regularly pinnate, 

 tumid ; branches divergent, julaceous, obtuse. Stem leaves crowded, 

 laxly imbricated, narrow at insertion, decurrent at angles, broadly oval 

 or ovate-oblong, cochleariform-concave, broadly sulcate, at the rounded 

 apex with a small recurved minutely serrulate apiculus, margin recurved 

 at base ; nerve pale and thin, reaching middle, sometimes shorter and 

 double ; cells small, linear-vermicular, the angular quadrate. Branch 

 leaves narrower and smaller. Perich. bracts erect, with long subulate 

 points, nerveless, not sulcate. Seta red, smooth, capsule horizontal, 

 longish elliptic, castaneous, lid conical, pointed, peristome orange, inner 

 yellow. Male infl. with numerous ovato-lanc. bracts. 



Hab. — Dry banks in woods and pastures, common. Fr. 10 — 11. 



3. HYPNUM ILLECEBRTIM P. Beam. 



Dioicous; procumbent, irregularly branched, deep green ; branches 

 pbtuse incurved. Leaves densely imbricated, roundish-ovate, concave 



