Hypnace.e._ 100 [Hypnitm. 



28. HYPNUM VELUTINUM L. 



Autoicous ; stems creeping, with short erect branches. Leaves 

 spreading, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate in upper half, nen-ed 

 above half-way. Seta rough, capsule ovate, cernuous ; lid conical, 

 apiculate. (T. CIII, E.) 



Syn. — Muscus tirrestrh, vulgaris minor, Adianti aurei capiUtlis Ray Synops. 18 (i6go). 



Hypnum repens iricliodes terrestre viriditis minus, capitulis iumidioribus cernuis Dill. Cat. 

 Giss. 216 (1718), et in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 84 (1724). 



Hypnum velntinum capsulis ovatis cernuis Dill. Hist. muse. 326, T. 42, f. 61 (1741) 

 et Herb. 



Hypnum velutinum L. Sp. plant. 1129 {1753). HuDS. Fl. Angl. 428 (1762). Weiss Crypt. 

 Goett. 225 (1770). Neck. Meth. muse. 172 (1771). Wither. Bot. arrang. ii, 689 

 (1776). LiGHTF. Fl. seot. ii, 763 (1777). Weber Spic. Fl. Goett. 96 (1778). Relhan 

 Fl. Cantab. 416 (1785). Roth Fl. Germ, i, 471 (1788). Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 301 (1794). 

 HoFFM. Deutscb. fl. ii, 85 (1795). Hedw. Muse, frond, iv, 70, t. 27 (1797), Sp. muse. 

 272 (iSoi). SwARTz Muse. suec. 66 (1799). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 105 (1801), Sp. 

 muse. II, 166 (1812), Mant. 169 {1819), Bry. univ. ii, 457 (1827). Smith Fl. Brit. 1305 

 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 2421. Turn. Muse. Hib. 167 (1804). Schultz Fl. Starg. 300 

 (i8c6). WtB. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 310 (1807). Wahl. Fl. lapp. 381 (1812), Fl. carp. 

 362 {1814). RoEHL. Deutseh. fl. iii, loS (1813). Hook. Tay. Muse. br. 105 (1818). 

 Hook. Fl. scot. P. II, 145 (1821), Br. Fl. ii, 89 (1833). Funck. Moost. 61, t. 44 (1821). 

 Gray Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 761 (i8ii). Hukben. Muse. germ. 637 (1833). De Not. 

 Syllab. 25 (1838). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 299 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 399 

 (1851). WiLS. Bry. Brit. 342 (1855). Berk. Handb. 79, t. 5 (1863). Hobk. Synops. 

 149 (1873). BouLAY Muse. Fr. 126 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 339 (1884). 



Hypnum intricaUim Schreb. Spic. Fl. Lips. (1771). 



Leskea velutina Schrank Baier. Fl. iii, 461 (1789). 



Brachythecium velutinum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 52 — 54, p. 5, t. 4 (1853). Schimp. 

 Synops. 536 (i860), 2 ed. 648. De Not. Epilogo 125 (1869). Milde Bry. Siles. 331 

 (18G9). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 198 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 329, t. 95 (1892). Dix. 

 James. Stud. Handb. 406 (1896). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 103 (1896). 



Hypnum declivum Mitt. Journ. Lin. Soc. viii, p. 33, t. 6 (1865). 



Autoicous ; in depressed interwoven bright green tufts, slightly 

 glossy. Stem creeping, irregularly pinnate, branches curved, ascending. 

 Stem-leaves lax and spreading, from a narrow base, ovato-lanceolate, 

 acuminate in a long point, ner\-e slender, f length of leaf, margin plane, 

 almost entire, basal angular cells few, quadrate, upper long and narrow ; 

 branch-leaves divergent, narrowly lanceolate, margin plane, distantly 

 serrate, nerved above half-way. Perich. bracts pale, erecto-patent, inner 

 ovate, serrate, with a long subulate point ; seta purple, coarsely verrucose, 

 capsule cernuous and horizontal, gibbous ovate, glossy brown, lid convex- 

 conic, pointed, annulus of two rows, teeth lanceolate-subulate, orange, 

 papillose at point. Male infl. gemmiform, the bracts acuminate, serrate 

 at point, nerveless. 



Hab, — On grassy banks, stones and in woods, very common. Fr. 12 — 4. 

 Var. j8. prselongum Schimp. Bry. eur. f. 52—54, t. 4, fig. p. 



