Hypnace^.] 74 [Hypnum. 



Eurhynchium striatum Schimp. Coroll. iig (1856), Synops. 553 (i860), 2 ed. 666. Milde 

 Bry. siles. 301 {1869). Hoek. Synops. 2 ed. 204 (1884). HuSN. Muse. gall. 336, t. g6 

 (1893). LiMPR. in Rabenh. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 165 {1897). Dix. James. Handb. 425 (1896). 



Rhynchostegimn striatum De Not. Cronaca Bri. ital. II, 11 (1867), Epilogo 76 (1869). 



Hylocomium striatum Kinds. Laubm. Schwed. & Norw. 43 (1883). 



Dioicous ; in lax depressed, irregular incoherent tufts, bright or 

 pale green. Plants long, rambling arcuato-prostrate, sometimes sub- 

 dendroid, the branches elongate, erect, subflexuose, attenuate at apex. 

 Cauline leaves densely crowded, divergent and multistriate, cordato- 

 lanceolate, somewhat obtuse and scariose, branch-leaves obovate- 

 lanceolate, all concave, plane at margin and sharply serrate, nerve 

 vanishing below apex, angles excavate, slightly decurrent, with 

 rectangular cells, the upper vermicular ; paraphyllia rounded-ovate, 

 concave. Perich. bracts pale squarrose, nerveless, inner sheathing 

 with a long recurved apiculus ; seta purple long and smooth, capsule 

 cylindraceous, more or less arcuate, lid conic with a very long curved 

 beak and a very broad annulus, peristome long, yellow, cilia 2 — 3, 

 appendiculate. 



Hab. — On the ground in woods, common in calcareous districts. Fr. 11 — 3. 



A fine moss which at first was regarded as a variety of rutabiilum, but 

 readily known by the harsh patent deeply sulcate leaves and long-beaked 

 operculum. 



6. HYPNTJM MEEIDIONALE Schimp. 



Dioicous; in dense dull brownish-green tufts with many short 

 branches. Leaves crowded, squarrose, triangular-cordate, acutely 

 acuminate. Capsule and seta shorter. (T. XCVIII, E.) 



Hypnum meridionale Schimp. in litt. Sendtner in Flora 1848, p. 65. 



Hypnum JiUscens C. Muell. Synops. ii, 462, p.p. (1851). 



Eurhynchium longirostre /3. meridionale Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 57 — 61, t. 5, fig. B (1854). 



Hypnum striatum Var. Dtirieui Mont, in Durieu PI. Astur. No. 139. 



Eurhynchium striatum Var. meridionale Schimp. Coroll. 1x9 {1856), Synops. 554 (i860), 

 2 ed. 667. HuSN. Muse. gall. 336 (1893). Boul. Muse. Fr. 113 (1884). 



Eurhynchium meridionale De Not. in PiccoN. Elenco Muse. Hgur. n. 32 (18C3). Limpr. 

 in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 167 (1897). 



Rhynchostegium meridionale De Not. Cronaca II, 11 (1867), Epilogo 77 (1869). 



Hylocomium meridionale Kindb. Eur. and Amer. Bry. 41 (1897). 



Dioicous ; in dense creeping dull yellowish or brownish-green tufts 

 with descending stolons. Branches dense short and thick, curved when 



