Hypnace^.] 71 [HypTMm. 



serrulate apiculate, nerve vanishing below apex. Seta rough, capsule 

 ovate-oblong, cernuous, lid conic, apiculate. (T. XCVIII, B.) 



Syn, — Muscus terrestris, surcuUs basi geniculatis aut illecebrce esmulis, foliis subrotundis 

 sqiiamatim incumbentibus. Vaill. Botan. Paris, 137, t. 25, f. 7 (1727). 



Hypnum cupressifurme rotundius vel illecebra cemidum p.p. Dill. Hist. muse. 311, t. 40, 

 fig. 46c (1741). 



Hypnum illecebrum (non L. nee Hedw.) P. Beauv. Prodr. 65 (1805). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, 

 P. II, 225 (1816). Brid. Mant. 60 (i8ig), Bry. univ. ii, 428 (1827). Hueben. IVIusc. 

 germ. 649 {1833). De Not. Syllab. 22 (1838). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 288 (1848). 

 C. Muell. Synops. ii, 376 (1851). WiLS. Bry. brit. 343, t. 35 (1855). Berk. Handb. 84 

 (1863). HoBK. Synops. 151 (1873). BouL. Muse. Fr. 120 (1884). Lesq. James lUoss 

 N. Amer. 347 (1884). 



Hypnum Touretii Brid. Sp. Muse. II, 185 (1812), Mant. 173 (1819). 



Hypnum blandum Lyell Mss. Hook, in Fl. Lend, new ser. Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. 

 2 ed. 176, t. V, suppl. (1827). Hook. Br. Fl. ii, 88 (1833). 



Hypnum illecebrum p. Touretii Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 429 (1827). . 



Scleropodium illecebrum Be. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 45-46, p. 3, t. 2 (1853). Schimp. Synops. 

 547 (i860), 2 ed. 659. HoBK. Synops. 2 ed. 202 (1884). HusN. Muse. gall. 330, t. 95 

 (1893). LiMPR. in Raben. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 143 (1897). 



Brachythecium illecebrum De Not. Epilogo 112 (1869). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 409 

 (1896). 



Eurhynchiiim illecebrum Milde Bry. siles. 305 (1869). 



Dioicous ; in rather dense procumbent tufts, glossy bright or 

 yellowish green ; branches ascending, short, decurved, obtuse, julaceous. 

 Leaves dense imbricated when dry, erecto-patent when moist, ovate 

 very concave, rounded with a short recurved apiculus, minutely serrulate 

 towards point ; nerve slender about f length of leaf, excurrent in a dorsal 

 mucro; cells very narrow, vermiform, more elongated at base, 

 rectangular at the impressed slightly decurrent angles. Perichsetium 

 laxly imbricated, inner bracts lanceolate-subulate nerved to middle, seta 

 purple, strongly verrucose, capsule horizontal or cernuous, light brown, 

 turgidly ovate, lid conical, apiculate ; peristome yellow. Male infl. 

 gemmiform, bracts broadly ovate, acuminate. 



Hab. — Damp stony banks, not common. Fr. 11 — i. 



Cadnam Lane, New Forest {Lyell), Holyhead and Aberffraw, Anglesey {Wilson 1830) ! ! 

 Douglas, Castletown and Peel, Isle of Man. Killiney and Howth, Ireland. Maresfield 

 and Aldrington beach, Sussex (Davies 1865) ! ! Mousehole cliff and Penzance 

 (CuRNOW 1S65) ! ! Plymouth {Holmes). Queenstown, Cork (Carroll). Exwick {Parfitt). 

 Derbyshire {Bagnall). Sallagh Braes {Waddell). Little Baddow, Essex {Greemaood 

 1845). Nesscliffe, Salop {Hamilton & Benson i8g8) ! 1 



The Mediterranean form, reaching 6 in. in length, closely resembles 

 H. puriim, but the colour and form of branches are very different, yet the two 

 were confounded by most of the old botanists. The smooth seta of the latter 



