Hypnace^.] 72 [Hypnum. 



will also distinguish, but the fruit is not common in either. Hedwig's H. 

 illecehrum is the American H. Boscii Schwaeg. 



4. HYPNTJH C^SPITOSUM WUs. 



Dioicous ; stems creeping, densely matted, with many short 

 incurved branches. Leaves spreading and subsecund, ovato-lanceolate, 

 gradually pointed, serrulate, nerved to middle. Seta rough, capsule 

 suberect, oblong, curved ; lid conico-rostellate. (T. XCVIII, C.) 



Syn. — Hypnum ccespitosum WiLS. in Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2878 (1843), Bry. brit. 344 (1855). 

 Berk. Handb. 83 (1863). Hobk. Synops. 151 (1873). BouL. Muse. Fr. 120 (1884). 

 Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 346 (1884). 



Hypnum cespitans C. Muell. Synops. ii, 354 (1851). 



ScUropodium caspitosum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 45-46, p. 2, t. i (1853). Schimp> 

 Synops. 547 (i860), 2 ed. 658. Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 202 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 331. 

 t. 95 (1893). LiMPR. in Raben. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 142 (1897). 



Eurhynchium caspitosum Milde Bry. siles. 305 (1869). 



Brachythccium caspitosum Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 408 (1896). 



Dioicous; densely caespitose, depressed, soft, bright or dull green. 

 Stem rooting, densely ramulose, the branches short erect and incurved. 

 Stem-leaves patent, divergent on all sides or subsecund, when dry laxly 

 imbricated, broadly ovato-lanceolate, acutely acuminate; nerve yellowish, 

 J length of leaf, sometimes forked, cells at base two rows quadrate, at 

 decurrent angles yellow and rectangular ; ramuline oblongo-lanceolate, 

 all concave, minutely serrulate, the margin recurved towards base. 

 Perich. bracts lanceolate, acuminate, subserrate and recurved at point, 

 faintly sulcate, with a short thin nerve ; capsule on a minutely tuber- 

 culate red seta, purple suberect, oblong and a little incurved ; lid conic, 

 rostrate, peristome yellow. Bracts of male infl. ovate suddenly pointed. 



Hab. — Sandstone walls and about tree-roots and stones, not common. Fr. 

 11-12. 



Near Warrington and between Frodsham and Helsby, Cheshire (Wilson) ! ! By the Ouse 

 at York {Spruce). By the Mole, Burford bridge and Stoke Dabernon [Borrer). Henfield 

 and Hurstpierpoint (Mitten) ! Wembury, S. Devon (Holmes 1871). Near Cheetham 

 (Borrer 1844). By the Wye, Erwood, Brecon (Binstead 1H94). Doward Hills (Rev. 

 Aug. Ley). Miller's dale and Dovedale, Derby (Holt). Holywell, Forge Mills and 

 Curdworth, Warvvick (Bagnalf). Penshurst (Holmes 1875). 



Sect. 3. PANCKOWIA Neck. Stems creeping or ascending, more or 

 less pinnate. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, pointed, often longitudinally 



