Hypnace^.] 103 [Hypmm. 



lanceolate-subulate, finely serrate at margin, nerved to apex. Perichatial 

 bracts squarrose, inner sheathing, lanceolate-subulate and recurved in 

 upper half, with a faint nerve half-way ; seta purple, rough in upper half; 

 capsule cernuous, castaneous, oval, gibbous, lid conical, acute, teeth 

 yellow. 



Hab — Damp walls and stones and on tree-roots. Ft. i — 3. 



A number of varieties have been described by Schimper, but with us the 

 plant appears to be pretty constant, but varies in colour, sometimes being of 

 a beautiful whitish green. 



31. HYPNUM REFLEXUM Stavke. 



Autoicous ; slender, creeping, pinnate, with short incurved branches. 

 Leaves crowded, decurrent, broadly deltoid-ovate, suddenly lanc.-subulate, 

 serrated, nerved to point. Seta rough, capsule globose-oval, horizontal, 

 lid conic, pointed. (T. CIV, D.) 



SYN.—Hypnum reflexum Starke MSS. Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 306 & 476 (1807) Brid 

 Sp muse. II 170 (1812) Mant. 170 (1819), Bry univ. ii, 461 (1827). Schwaeg. Suppl! 

 I, P. II 269 (1816), et II, PI, 161 t. 143 (1823). Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. 95 (1818). 

 Hook. F1. seot. P. 2, 142 (1821), Br. Fl. li, 78 (1833). Gray Nat. Arr. i, 754 1821 

 FuNCK Moost. 62, t. 46 1821 . HuEBEN. Musc. germ. 639 (1833). De Not. SvUab 

 26 (1838). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 281 (1848). C. Muell.^ Syriops. ii, 448 (1851) 

 WiLS. Bry. brit. 342 (1855). Berk. Handb. 80 (1863). Hobk. Synops. ilq }i87,) 

 Boulay Muse. Fr. 124 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 342 (1884). 



Leskea laxifoUa Hook. Muse. exot. t. 30 (1818). 



Brachythecmm refiixum Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fase. 52-54, p. 8,-t. 5 (1853). Schimp. Synops. 

 539 (i860), 2 ed. 650. MiLDE Bry. siles. 332 (1869). De Not. Epilogo 126 ifi86o) 

 Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 199 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 327,1. 94 {1892). Dix. James.' 

 Stud. Handb. 405 (1896). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 114 (1896). 



Hypnum subtenue James in Proe. Ac. Phil. 1855, p. 447. 



Rigodium reflexum Kindb. Laubm. Schwed. u. Norw. 14 (1883). 



Autoicous ; in creeping interwoven dingy-green tufts, often blacl< at 

 base. Stems slender, filiform, rooting at points, pinnate, the branches 

 filiform, simple and incurved. Stem-leaves crowded, divergent, from a 

 wide decurrent deltoid base, cordate-ovate, suddenly lanceolate-acuminate, 

 often oblique at point, not sulcate, with plain serrulate margins ; nerve 

 nearly reaching apex, cells firm, longish hexagonal at base, very numerous, 

 small and quadrate at the excavate angles. Branch leaves ovato- 

 lanceolate, nerved to point, serrated at margin. Perich. bracts pale, 

 nerveless, ovato-lanceolate, subulate and squarrosely recurved, inner 

 erect ; seta purple, rough, capsule roundish-ovate, horizontal, small, 

 blackish-brown, lid conical, acuminate. Male infl. gemmiform, ovate. 



