HvPNACEiF.] 89 [Hypnum. 



Hab. — Wet shady rocks and stones ; rare. Fr. i — 2. 



Hurstpierpoint {Mitten) ! Wakehurst, Sussex (Davies 1856) ! ! Near Wells and Wormiston, 

 Somerset [Binstead 1886) ! ! 



This moss was confounded with Teesdalei on the continent, but it is really 

 much nearer to litoreiim, from which it differs chiefly by the form of the leaf ; 

 this tapers into an acute point, obscurely serrated, and not acutely acuminate, 

 the leaf-cells also being longer and laxer. It was first found by Bridel, at 

 Rome in 1806. 



19. HYPNUM LITOREUM De Not. 



Autoicous, resembling R. Algirianum ; stem creeping with short 

 erect branches. Leaves spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, nerve 

 vanishing at middle. Inner perichsetial bracts long and lanceolate, 

 entire ; seta rough with small tubercles ; capsule oval with a tapering 

 neck, lid rostrate. (T. CI, D.) 



Syn. — Hypnum Utoreum De Not. Syllab. 31 (1838). 



Rhynchostegium mediterraneum Jurat, in Verb, zool-bot. Gesells. Wien xxiv, 378 (1874). 

 Rhynchostegium curvisetum Var. Utoreum Vent. & Bott. Enum. crit. 7 (1884). 

 Rhynchostegium Utoreum Bottini in N. Giom. bot. ital. xxii, 260 (i8go). 

 Rhynchostegium scabreUum Mitt. Mss. 



Eurhynchium teneUum (3. scabreUum Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 421 (i8g6). 

 RhynchostegieUa Utorea Limpr. in Raeenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 214 (1897). 



Autoicous ; in small entangled bright green glossy tufts. Stem 

 creeping, irregularly pinnate with short erect branches. Stem-leaves 

 divergent, elongate lanceolate, tapering into long fine points, flat and 

 entire, nerve slender, reaching middle of leaf; basal cells rectangular, 

 upper narrow, incrassate. Branch-leaves smaller becoming more 

 elongated towards the apex, where they are often secund. Perichaetial 

 bracts ig- times length of vaginula, erecto-patent, pale, the 3 inner 

 elongated lanceolate, entire, nerveless ; seta arched at top, red, 

 moderately rough with small tubercles, sometimes the upper half and 

 more rarely the whole is quite smooth. Capsule horizontal, castaneous, 

 oval with a short neck ; lid convex, rostrate, yellowish, teeth of 

 peristome, narrow lanc.-subulate, yellow. 



Hab. — Near the S. coast, on sandstone and trunks of trees. Fr. i — 3. 



Hurstpierpoint (Mitten 1861) ! ! On stumps and branches of trees, Ashcombe, Lewes 

 {W. E. Nicholson 1896) ! ! Near Uxbridge (Benbow). 



