Hypnace^.] 93 [Hypnum. 



Rhynchosteghim cirrosum et Funchii De Not. Cronaca II, 12 (1867), Epilogo 82 (i86g). 



Eurhynchium histrio Mol. Ba5'ern. Laubm. 224 (1875). 



Hypnum Tommasimi /8. julaceuni Boulay Muse. Fr. 109 (1884). 



Hypnum (Scleropodium) cirrosum Boulay op. c. 121. 



Eurhynchium cirrosum Husnot Muse. gall. 338, t. 97 (1893). Dix. James, stud. Handb. 

 413 (i8g6). LiMPR. in Raben. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 182 (1897). 



Cirriphyllum cirrosum Grout in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club xxv, 223 (1898). 



Dioicous ; in soft glossy pale yellowish-green tufts. Stem 

 decumbent, stoloniferous, the shoots turgid julaceous, simple or with 

 few short acute branches. Leaves imbricated and appressed, 

 cochleariform-concave, slightly decurrent, longish oblong-ovate, abruptly 

 contracted into a long subulate point, margin involute above, indistinctly 

 denticulate, nerve vanishing at or below middle, sometimes forked ; 

 cells linear above, incrassate and quadrato-hexagonal at angles ; lower 

 leaves fuscous, smaller and narrower, acutely pointed, nerveless. 

 Perichffitial bracts longish, nerveless, suddenly contracted into a 

 recurved serrulate subula ; seta purple, verrucose, capsule horizontal, 

 gibbous-oval, castaneous, annulus of 3 rows of irregular cells, lid 

 acute, conico-rostellate, peristome yellow. Male plant unknown. 



Hab. — Mountain rocks. Summit of Ben Lawers {Dr. Amott 1823) ! ! 



The branches resemble H. piwum, but the leaves are like those of 

 H. piliferum ; the fruit is very rare but has been found in the Tyrol, Bavaria 

 and Switzerland, and by the short lid approaches Brachythecium. Limpricht 

 describes three distinct varieties, and several other forms appear to exist. 



23. HYPNUM RUSCIFORME Nech 



Autoicous ; in deep green, rigid tufts. Stem decumbent or floating, 

 with long arched branches. Leaves spreading, broadly ovate, serrated, 

 nerved nearly to apex. Seta smooth ; capsule ovate, cernuous ; lid 

 rostrate. (T. CII, C.) 



Syn. — Hypnum repens, iriangularibus minoribus foliis, pediculis et capitulis brevioribus et 

 tumidioribus majus Dill, in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 80 (1724). 



Hypnum foliis rusciformibus, capsulis subrotundis Dill. Hist. muse. 298, t. 38, fig. 31 A 

 (1741) et Herbar. 



Hypnum aquaticum, flagellis et teretibus, et pennatis Dill. Hist. muse. 308, t. 40, fig. 44 

 A— C, et Herb. 



Hypnum rusciforme Neck. Delic. gallo-belg. ii, 481 {1768). Weiss Crypt. Goett. 225 

 (1770). Light. Fl. Scot, ii, 746 (1777). Roth Fl. Germ, i, 466 (178S). Schrank 

 Baiers. fl. ii, 477 (1789). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 173 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 190 (1812), 

 Mant. 174 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 497 (1827). P. Beauv. Prodr. 69 (1805). Schultz 

 Fl. Starg. 334 (1806). De Not. Syllab. 34 (1838). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 425(1851). 

 Boulay Muse. Fr. 94 (1884). 



