Hypnace^.] 83 \Hypnum. 



nerved to f the length, cells very narrow, 8 — 12 times long as wide ; 

 branch-leaves divergent, lanceolate, acute, finely serrate, all plicate. 

 Perich. bracts squarrose, sheathing, suddenly narrowed into a long 

 serrate subula, with a faint nerve or none. Seta short, deep red, 

 verrucose ; capsule cernuous, reddish-brown, ovate, lid conic rostrate ; 

 peristome yellow. 



Hab. — On clay soil in woods, not common. Fr. 11 — 2. 



Shanklin Chine, I. of Wight (Davies i860). Maresfield, Sussex (Davies 1861). Hereford- 

 shire and Monmouth (Rev. A. Ley). Oxford (Boswell). Woodchester, Stroud 

 (Holmes) ! Shere, Surrey (Dr. Capron) ! ! Eardisley, Hereford (Binsiead 1893) ! ! 



Differing much from H. Swartzii in habit, and in the short robust 

 branches with densely crowded leaves, so that it is much more worthy to be 

 retained as a species than some others of this group. 



14. HYPNUM SPECIOSUM Brid. 



Synoicous ; stem creeping, with erect, simple, subcomplanate 

 branches. Leaves ovate subacuminate, serrulate, nerved nearly to 

 apex. Seta rough, capsule ovate, tapering at base, cernuous, lid 

 rostrate. (T. C, C.) 



Syn. — Hypnum refens filicinum, triangularibus parvis foliis, prcelongum. Var. longior. Dill. 

 Hist. muse. 279, t. 35, fig. 15 C (1741) et Herbar. 



Hypnum speciosum Brid, Sp. muse. H, 105 (1812), Mant. 156 (i8ig). WiLs. Bry. Brit. 

 34y (1855). Berk. Handb. 86 (1863). Hobk. Synops. 155 (1873). Boul. Muse. Fr. 

 102 (1884). 



Hypnum riparioides Var. speciosum Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. H, ig6 (1816). 



Hypnum prcelongum Var. ^speciosum Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 403 (1827). 



Hypnum Starckii C. Muell. Synops. ii, 432 (1851). 



Hypnum androgynum WiLs. MS. 



Rhynchostegium androgynum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 52—54, Suppl. t. i (1853). 



Eurhynchium prcelongum Var. 2. macrocarpum Bry. eur. fasc. 57 — 61, t. 7, 2 (1854). 



Eurhynchium androgynum Schimp. Corol. 119 (1856), Synops. 558 (i860). 



Eurhynchium speciosum Milde Bry. siles. 312 (1869). Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 672 (1876). 

 HoBK. Synops. 2 ed. 204 (1884). Husn. Muse. gal. 340, t. 98 (1893). Dix. James. 415 

 (1896). LiMPR. in Rabenh. D. kr. il. Laubm. iii, 189 (1897). 



Rhynchostegium speciosum Vent. & Sott. Enum. crit. 7 (1884). 



Eurhynchium uliginosum Warnst. Moosfl. Branden. 68 (1885). 



Synoicous ; in loose depressed tufts, bright green or yellowish 

 green with a silky gloss. Stem rambling, irregularly branched or 

 subpinnate ; paraphyllia none. Stem-leaves lax, divergent, subscariose. 



