Hypnace^.] 88 [Hypnum. 



i8. HYPNUM CURVISETUM Brid. 



Autoicous ; 3'ellowish-green, rather glossy, with short ascending 

 branches. Leaves erecto-patent, narrow, lanceolate, acute, nerve 

 slender, reaching middle of leaf; cells laxer narrowly fusiform. Seta 

 rough, c3'gneous; capsule with a distinct neck, longish ovate, lid 

 rostrate. (T. CI, C.) 



Syn. — Hypnum curvisetum Brid. Sp. muse. II, iii (1812). 



Hypnum SchUicheri Var. fS. curvisetum Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 241 (1816). Brid. Bry. 

 univ. ii, 404 (1827). 



Hypnum tenellum (non Dicks.) Schwaeg. Suppl. II, P. I, 161, t. 144 (1823). 



Hypnum laxopinnaUim Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 405 ut synon. (1827). 



Hypnum rutabulum Var. tenerrimum Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 488. 



Hypnum Schleicheri Spreng. (L.) Syst. veg. 16 ed. iv, P. I, 208 p.p. (1827). De Not. 

 Syllab. 32 (1838). 



Hypmim Teesdalei (non Sm.) Hueben. Muse. germ. 6x8, p.p. (1833). 



Hypnum Teneriffce Mont. Hist. nat. lies-Can. Crypt. 3, t. 3 (1840). 



Hypnum rigidulum Bruch MS. Rabex. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 286 (1848). 



Rhynchostegium Teesdalei Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 49 — 51, p. 6, t. 3, excl. syn. (1852). 

 ScHiMP. Synops. 566 (i860). De Not. Epilogo 87 (1869). 



Eurhynchium Teesdalei Milde Bry. siles. 313 p.p. (i86g). 



Hypnum [Rhynchostegium) curvisetum Lindb. in Journ. Lin. Soe. Bot. xiii, 68 (1872). 



Rhynchostegium curvisetum Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 6S1 (1876). 



Eurhynchium curvisetum HusN. Muse. gall. 341, t. 98 (1893). Drx. James. Stud. Handb. 

 420 (1896). 



Rhynchostegiella curviseta Limpr. in Rab. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 211 (1897). 



Autoicous ; in closely interwoven softish tufts, bright or yellowish 

 green, rather glossy. Stems prostrate, irregularly pinnate, with short 

 ascending equal branches, having a few rounded or lanceolate para- 

 phyllia at base. Stem-leaves erecto-patent, narrowly lanceolate, acute, 

 flat and entire at margin ; nerve slender, vanishing about middle ; cells 

 without chlorophyl, rectangular at base, narrow and fusiform above. 

 Branch-leaves similar, faintly serrate. Perichaetial bracts pale, erect, 

 inner twice the length of the cylindric vaginula, ovate with long acute 

 points, nerveless. Seta red, cygneous above, coarsely verrucose ; 

 capsule horizontal or ascending, with a distinct neck, longish ovate, pale 

 brown ; lid pale, conic rostrate ; teeth of peristome yellow, inner with 

 I — 2 cilia. 



