Hypnace^.] 79 [Hypnum. 



Dioicous ; very small and slender, resemhVmg Ambl. serpens, in small 

 interwoven tufts, soft, bright or yellowish green, not glossy. Stems 

 creeping filiform, laxly pinnate, branches divergent on two sides, with 

 slender points. Stem leaves lax, erecto-patent, not decurrent, rather 

 concave, opake, ovato-lanceolate with long points, flat at margin, 

 minutely serrulate ; nerve | of length, excurrent at back in a point, cells 

 short, chlorophyllose, a few quadrate at basal angles ; branch leaves 

 lanceolate. Perichaetial bracts few, erecto-patent, inner from an ovate 

 base suddenly long-pointed, nearly entire, nerveless. Seta red, coarsely 

 verrucose, capsule cernuous, oval gibbous, orange-red ; lid pale, convex 

 rostrate ; peristome reddish, inner yellow, papillose, cilia two. Male 

 infl. gemmiform, bracts ovate, acute, with a short nerve or nerveless. 



Hab, — Shady rocks and hedge-banks, not common. Fr. ii — 3. 



Near Cork {Wilson 1829). Romantic rocks, Matlock {Wilson 1833). Woodmancote, 

 Sussex {Borrer 1837). Winwick quarry, Warrington (Wilson 1842)!! Near Bangor 

 (Wilson 1843). Penzance (Curnow 1863) ! ! Bolton Abbey (Hunt 1863) ! Tore cascade 

 (Carrington). Shere, Surrey (Capron 1869) ! ! Bagley wood, Oxon (Boswell 1863). 

 Bamford wood, Lanes. (Holt). Ingleboro and Todmorden (Nowell). Lyd Hole and 

 Haughmond hill (Hamilton). Rolston Scar and Richmond (Baker 1853). Middleton, 

 Warwick (Bagnall), and many other places. 



Often mistaken for H. Teesdaki but very different in habit and easily 

 separated by the short nerve. 



II. HYPNDM PRiEIONGUM L. 



Dioicous ; stem arched, pinnate or sub-bipinnate with attenuated 

 branches, and simple stolons. Stem-leaves widely cordate, acuminate 

 squarroso-recurved, branch-leaves lanceolate-acuminate, all nerved above 

 half-way and serrate. Capsule oval-oblong subcernuous, lid with a 

 long beak. (T. XCIX, E.) 



Syn. — Muscus vulgaris Jlagellis tenuibus,foliis minimis, Doody, Ray Synops. App. 244 (1690). 



Muscus terrestris parvus supinus, Filicis mode interdum pematus Ray Synops. 2 ed. 38 (1696). 



Hypnum repens filicinum, triangularibus parvis foliis prcelongum Dill. Cat. Giss. 2ig 

 (17 18), et in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 80 (1724), Hist. muse. 278, t. 35, fig. 15 A (i74i),et Herbar. 



Hypnum pn^longum h. Sp. pi. 1125 (1753). Huds. F1. angl. 422 (1762). Lightf. F1. 

 scot, ii, 751 {1777). Relhan Fl. cant. 411 (1785). Sibth. Fl. oxon. 295 (1794). Swartz 

 Muse. suec. 54 (1799). Brid. p. p. muse. rec. n, P. II, 82 (1801). Sp. muse. II, 102 

 (1812), Mant. I56'(i8i9), Bry. univ. ii, 399 (1827). Smith Fl. brit. 1299 (1804), Ens;. 

 Bot. t. 2035. Turn. Muse. hib. 160 (1804). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 336 {1807). 

 ScHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 277 {1816). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. p. p, 103 (1818). Gray 

 Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 760 (1821). Wils. Bry. brit. 348 (1855). Berk. Handb. Br. m. 87 

 (i86g). 



Hypnum pseudo-delicatulum Raddi in Opusc. sgient, Bologna II, 360, 



