HvPNACEiE. 92 [Hypnum. 



Eurhynchiutn piliferum Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fasc. 57 — 5i, p. 16, t. 13 (1854). Schimp. 

 Synops. 557 {i860), 2 ed. 671. Milde Bry. siles. 304 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 204 

 (1884). HusN. Muse, gall! 339, t. 97 (1893). Limpr. in Raben. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 188 

 (1897). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 414 (i8g6). 



Rhynchostegium pilifeium De Not. Cronaca II, 11, (1867), Epilogo 82 (1869). 



Cirriphyllum piliferum Grout in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club xxv. 225 (i8g8). 



Dioicous ; in lax irregular bright or pale green glossy tufts. Stem 

 depressed, elongated, spreading, without stolons, irregularly divided, 

 arched and pinnate with divergent branches and no paraphyllia. Stem- 

 leaves crowded, erecto-patent, decurrent, broadly ovate, rounded at 

 apex and extended into a long filiform subula, very concave, not plicate, 

 distantly serrulate, nerved to middle; cells pointed, linear-rhomboid 

 above, laxer, transparent and rectangular at decurrent angles. Branch- 

 leaves smaller with a long acute acumen. Perichaetial bracts erect at 

 base, squarrosely recurved, the inner longly subulate, nerveless, faintly 

 serrate, seta purple, verrucose ; capsule cernuous, with a distinct neck, 

 longish-oval, fulvous, incurved when dry, lid conic, subulate, annulus 

 broad; teeth yellow, red at base, cilia 2 — ^3, filiform. Male plants less 

 branched, infl. ovate, bracts nerveless. 



Hab. — Shady woods and grassy places, not common. Fr. rare, 3 — 4. 



A fine moss, readily known by its straggling growth and leaves suddenly 

 tipped by a long flexuose subula. 



22. HYPNTTM CIRROSUM Schwaeg. 



Dioicous ; stems erect or procumbent, with long simple or sparingly 

 branched shoots, turgid, cylindric. Leaves imbricated, elliptic-oblong, 

 with flexuose filiform points, concave, nerved to middle. Seta rough, 

 capsule ovate, lid conic-rostellate. (T. CII, B.) 



Syn. — Hypnum cirrosum Schwaeg. in Schultz Reise auf der Glockner ii, 365 (1804), Suppl. I, 

 P. II, 214 (1816). Brid. Sp. muse. II, 130 (1812), Mant. 174 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 495 

 (1827). FuNCK Moost. 57, t. 39 (1821). HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 647 (1833). Rabenh. 

 D. kr. fl. II, s. 3, 288 (1848). C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 377 (1851). Wils. Bry. brit. 347 

 (1855). Berk. Handb. 87 (1863). Hobk. Synops. 154 (1873). 



Eurhynchiutn Vaucheri fS.julaceum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 57 — 61, p. 15, 1. 12 /?. (1854). 



Brachythecium cirrosum Schimp. Synops. 696 (i86o), 2 ed. 806. Molendo Moos-Stud. 

 Algauer Alp. 92 (1865), et Bay. Laubm. 246 (1S75). Hobk. Syr.ops. 2 ed. 201 (1884). 



Brachythecium Funckii Schimp. Synops. 697 (i860). 



Myurium ? herjedalicum Schimp. Synops. 696, 2 ed. 808. 



Hypnum herjedalicum Hartm. Skand. Fl. g ed. 



Etirhynchium Vaucheri p. cirrosum Lorentz Bry. Notizb. 70 (1865). 



Brachythecium Molendoi Schimp. in litt. MoL. Moos-Stud. 92 (1865). 



