Hypnace^.J ioi [Hypnum. 



In large pale or bright green patches, not glossy. Stems elongated, 

 slender, with distant bifarious branches, the leaves distant, longer and 

 narrower, capsule longer. 



Hab. — Shady woods. Conham, Bristol {Thwaites, 1841) ! ! 



Var. y. intricatum (Hedw.) 



Syn. — Hypnum intricatum Hkdw. Descr. iv, 73, t. 28 (1797). Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 461. 



Tufts smaller, dense, interwoven, glossy. Stems short, with numerous 

 branches incurved at apex. Leaves crowded, secund, subfalcate, narrower, 

 more serrated. Seta short, capsule short, roundish. 



Hab. — On rocks and in clay fields, not uncommon. 



One of our commonest mosses, varying much in habit and colour. 

 When growing on damp shaded walls it is often of a blackish green tint. 



29, HYPNUM PSEUDOPLUMOSUM Brid. 



Autoicous ; in dense bright green tufts, subpinnate. Leaves crowded 

 erecto-patent, subsecund, ovate-acuminate, concave, entire or serrulate at 

 apex, nerved above half-way. Seta rough in upper half, capsule cernuous, 

 ovate, lid conical, acute. (T. CIV, A.) 



Syn. — Hypnum plumosum (non HuDS. nee Hedw.) Swartz Disp. musc.suec. 66 (1799). Smith 

 Fl. Brit. 1310 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 2071. Turn. Muse. hib. 98, t. 25 (1804). Hook. 

 Tayl. Muse. br. 98 (1818). Funck Moostasch. t. 43, f. 38 (1821). Schwaeg. Suppl. HI, 

 P. I, t. 225 (1827). HuF.BEN. Muse. germ. 642 (1833). WiLS. Bry. br. 340 (1855). 

 Berk. Handb. 82, t. 5, f. 3 (1863). Hobk. Synops. 151 (1873). Boulay Muse. Fr. 131 

 (1884). 



Hypnum pseudoplumosum Brid. Muse. ree. H, P. H, 108 exel. syn. (1801), Sp. muse. H, 

 159 (1812), Mant. 170 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 472 (1827). P. Beauv. Prodr. 68 (1805). 

 C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 350 (1851). 



Hypnum flagellars (non Dicks.) Hedw. Sp. muse. 282, t. 73, f. 1 — 3 (1801). 



Hypnum ckrysostomum Michx. Fl. Bor. — Amer. ii, 319 (1803). 



Hypnum alpinum Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1496. 



Brachythecinm plumosum Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fase. 52 — 54, p. 4, t. 3 (1853). Schimp. 

 Synops. 545 (i860), £ ed. 657. De Not. Epilogo 120 (1869). Milde Bry. siles, 335 

 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 201 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 345 (1884). 

 HusN. Muse. gall. 326, t. 94 (1892). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 407 (1896). Limpr. in 

 Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 87 (1896). 



Brachythecium Maximilianum Guemb. Moosf. Rheinpf. 87 (1857). 



Brachythecium Molendoi (non Schimp.) Lorentz in Saut. Fl. Herzog. Salzb. iii, 60 (1870). 



Autoicous ; in large glossy bright green tufts. Stems depressed, 

 pinnate, with simple erect or curved branches. Stem-leaves crowded, 

 erecto-patent, somewhat decurrent, ovato-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 

 not plicate, entire with plain margins, often subserrulate at apex and 

 subsecund, nerve reaching above middle ; cells rectangular at base, 



