HYPNACEyE.J 77 [Hypnum. 



Hab. — Wet banks, tree roots and rocks in shady places, rare. Fr. 12 — i. 

 Cornwall (Rev. Mr. Tozir) in Herb. Hooker. 



Var. ;8. praecox (Hedw.) Wahlenb. 



Stem short nearly bare ; branches short erect, with closely imbricated 

 broadly ovate short-pointed leaves, not plicate, the margins in the upper half 

 somewhat recurved, basal angular cells few, uppermost leaves obtuse. 



Syn. — Hypnum prcecox Hedw. Sp. muse. 249, t. 64 (1801.) Wee. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 322. 

 Brid. Sp. muse. II, 160; Mant. 168; Bry. univ. ii, 588. Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. 11 

 216. HuEEEN. Muse. Germ. 622. 



Leskea fasciciilosa Hedw. Sp. muse. 217, t. 54. 



Hypnum abbreviatum Schleich. Cent. IV. No. 25. 



Hypnum strigosum Vax.prcecox Wahlenb. F1. suae. 703. 



Eurhynchium strigosum (3. imbricatum Bry. eur. fasc. 57 — 61, t. i /3. Schimp. Synops. 

 550, 2 ed. 664. 



Eurhynchium prcecox De Not. in Piccone Elenco museh. lig, No. 29. 



Rhynchostegium pracox De Not. Cronaca II, p. 11, Epilogo 81. 



Eurhynchium strigosum Var. obtusifolium Hampe in Brockm. Laubm. Meckl. 125. 



Hab. — Dry banks, rocks and walls. Red sandstone rocks. Fern, Brechin 

 [Rev. J. Fergusson), creeping among other mosses. 



This moss is strangely absent from Britain, for we have no certain 

 locality for the species, yet both it and its variety are found through the 

 whole of N. Europe as well as in the central regions down to the Alps. 



9. HYPNUM CIRCINATUM Byid. 



Dioicous ; stems suberect, arcuate, subpinnate, branches curved 

 downwards. Leaves crowded ovate-acuminate, serrulate, nerved nearly 

 to apex. Seta smooth, capsule cernuous, ovate curved, lid rostrate. 

 (T. XCIX, C.) 



Syn. — Hypnum circinatum Brid. Sp. muse. II, 148 (1812) ; Mant. 165 (1819). C. Muell. 

 Synops. ii, 479 {1851). Wils. Bry. brit. 353 (1855). Berk. Handb. 90 (1863). Hobk. 

 Synops. 153 (1873). Boul. Muse. Fr. 114 (1884). 



Hypnum distans Brid. Sp. muse. II, 109 ; Mant. 157 ; Bry. univ. ii, 409. Schwaeg. 

 Suppl. I, P. II, 249 (1816). 



Hypnum strigosum Var. circinatum Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 447. 



Hypnum Leskea Grev. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xv, 347, t. 3, f. 7 (1826). 



Hypnum strigosum /S. minus De Not. Syll. 18 {1838). 



Hypnum Grevillei Raben. D. kr. il. II, 3, p. 281 (1848). 



Eurhynchium circinatum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fase. 57 — 61, p. 5, t. 3 (1854). Schimp. Synops. 

 551 (i860), 2 ed. 665. Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 203 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 335, t. 96 

 (1893). Dix. Jameson Stud. Handb. 423 (1896). Limpr. in Raben. D. kr. fl. Laubm. lii, 

 162 (1897). 



