HYPNACEiE.] 82 [Hypnum. 



yellowish. Branch-leaves close, erecto-patent, concave, ovato-lanceolate, 

 not twistingf at point, sharply serrate all round ; nerve J length, the 

 point excurrent at back. Perichsetial bracts squarroso-recurved, 

 gradually long-pointed, nerveless; seta red-brown, densely verrucose. 

 Capsule cernuous, yellowish-red, ovate ; lid convex with a long deflexed 

 yellow beak, peristome deep yellow, with long pale points. Male infl. 

 not squarrose, bracts nerveless, inner broadly ovate, suddenly pointed. 



Hab. — Moist banks and rocks, not uncommon. Fr. 12 — 3. 



This distinct species has been regarded by Bridel and Schimper, followed 

 by most continental authors, as a variety of H. distans {pralongum Schimp.), 

 from which however it is sufficiently distinct by the habit and form of leaf. 

 It varies considerably in the width of leaf anJ also in the length of its short 

 acute point and the colour of the plants when growing among herbage in 

 exposed places is generally more or less yellowish. 



13. HYPNUM SCHLEICHERI Hedw.fil. 



Dioicous ; stem creeping, fasciculate-branched. Stem-leaves dense, 

 divergent, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, half-twisted at apex : branch- 

 leaves lanceolate, all finely serrulate. Perich. bracts suddenly narrowed 

 into a long serrate subula. Seta short, rough. Capsule cernuous, lid 

 conic, rostrate. (T. C, B.) 



Syn. — Hypnum prcelongum y8. abbreviatum Turn. Muse. Hib. 160 (1804). Sm. F1. Brit. 1299 

 {1804). Brid. Sp. Muse. II, 103 (1812), Bry. univ. ii, 401 (1827). 



Hypnum Schleicheri Hedw. fil. in Wee. Mohr. Beitr. i, 128, t. 7 (1805). Brid. Sp. 

 muse. II, no (1812). 



Hypnum fiUicens Brid. Sp. muse. II, 170 (1812). 



Hypnum pralongum ^filescens Steudel Nomencl. t. 215 (1824). 



Eurhynchimn prcelongum ^ abbreviatum Br. ScH.Bry. Eur. fasc. 57 — 61, Mon. 8 & 10, t. 7, 

 fig. E (1854). Schimp. Synops. 560 var. 2 (i860). ■ Husn. Muse. gall. 341 (1893). 



Eurhynchium abbreviatum Brcckm. Laubm. Meckl. 126 (1869). Hartm. Skand. fl. 10 ed. 

 (1871). Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 674 {1876). 



Eurhynchium Schleicheri Milde Bry. siles. 306 (1869). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. 

 Laubm. iii, 202 (1897). 



Rhynchostegium Schleicheri Vent. & Bott. Enum. erit. 7 (1884). 



Eurhynchium Swartzii 'abbreviatum Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 419 (1S96). 



Dioicous; densely tufted, glossy yellowish-green. Stem creeping, 

 irregularly pinnate with fasciculate shoots; branches short, erect; 

 paraphyllia none. Stem-leaves dense, divergent, slightly decurrent, 

 ovate-lanceolate, with long points half-twisted at apex, finely serrulate. 



