Hypnace^.; 76 [Hypnuin. 



filiform point, faintly nerved half-way ; seta red, smooth ; capsule 

 inclined, oblong, nifo-ferruginous, lid conic with a subulate beak; 

 peristome brown, inner yellow. Male plant similar. 



Hab. — Shady calcareous rocks and roots of trees, not common. Fr. 12 — 3. 



Mucruss, Killarney {VVilsmi). Arundel Park (Mitten) ! ! St. Vincent's rocks and Leigh 

 woods, Bristol (Borrer 1845) ! Plymouth (Holmes) ! ! Billacombe (Holmes), all in 

 fruit. 



8. HYPNTIM STRIGOSUM Hopn. 



Dioicous ; stems creeping, subpinnate, branches suberect, attenu- 

 ated. Leaves crowded, divergent, broadly cordate-ovate, gradually 

 pointed, serrated, nerved above half-way. Capsule longish ovate, 

 cernuous, lid rostrate. (T. XCIX, B.) 



Syn. — Hypnum strigosum Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 76 (1796). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 321 

 (1807). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 381 (1812). Roehl. Deutch. fl. iii, no (1813). Schwaeg. 

 Suppl. I, P. II, 268 (i8i6). ScHULTZ Fl. starg. suppl. 79 (1S19). Funck Moost. 63, 

 t. 46 (1821). Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 446 (1827). Hueben. Muse. germ. 662 (1833). 

 De Not. Syllab. 17 (1838). Raeenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 283 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. 

 ii, 428 (1851). WiLS. Bry. Brit. 353 (1855). Berk. Handb. br. m. 90 (1863). Hobk. 

 Synops. 152 {1873). BouL. Muse. Fr. n6 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 

 351 (1884). 



Hypnum thuringicum Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 99, t. 3, f. 2 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 14 

 (1812), Mant. 164 (1819). P. Beauv. Prodr. 71 (1805). 



Hypnum pulchellum Hedw. Sp. muse. 265, t. 68, f. i — ^4 (1801). 



Hypnum velutinoides VoiT in Sturm D. Fl. II, pt. 11 (1810), Muse, herbip. 99 (1812). 



Eurhynchium strigosum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fase. 57 — 61, t. i (1854). Schimp. Synops. 550 

 (i860), 2 ed. 663. Milde Bry. siles. 300 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 203 (1884). 

 HusN. Muse. gall. 334, t. g6 (1893). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 424 (i8g6). Limpr. in 

 Rab. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 157 (1897). 



Rhynchostegium strigosum De Not. Cronaca II, 11 (1867), Epilogo 80 (1869). 



Rhynchostegium Progelii Sauter Fl. Herzog. Salzb. iii, 62 (1870). 



Dioicous; resembling H. vehitinum, in flat stiff, slightly glossy 

 yellowish-green tufts. Stem creeping with descending stolons, inter- 

 ruptedly pinnate, branches erect slender; paraphyllia roundish, serrate. 

 Stem leaves divergent, ovato-cordate, gradually narrowed to an acute 

 point, sharply serrulate, indistinctly sulcate, nerve slender, \ length of 

 leaf and ending at back in a short point, cells very narrow, about lo 

 times long as wide, angular cells few, quadrate and oval. Branch- 

 leaves lanceolate with a short more or less obtuse point, indistinctly 

 sulcate, sharply serrate. Perich. bracts squarrose, inner lanceolate, 

 suddenly ending in a recurved serrate subula, nerve faint or none. Seta 

 red, smooth, capsule horizontal, subcylindric, reddish-brown, lid conic, 

 shortly rostrate ; peristome brown, inner yellow. Male plantlets 

 nestling on the radicles of the female. 



