Hypnace^.] 104 [Hypniim. 



Hab. — Mountain rocks, rare. Fr. 4 — 5. 



Ben Nevis. Ben Lawers (Amott) ! ! Clova (Don 1807) ! ! Glen Callater {Fergusson 1868) ! ! 

 Var. p. micropns (Schimp.) 



Plants smaller and more slender. Leaves more gradually acuminate. 

 Seta short, only slightly rough ; calyptra large, enclosing the whole capsule, 

 teeth of peristome perforated at apex. 



Syn. — Brachythecium micropus Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 52—54, p. g, t. 6, Synops. 539; 

 2 ed. 650. 



Hab.— Ben Lawers {Dr. Niclwl 1855) ! ! 



The species has leaves very distinct, both in form and areolation, and the 

 var. has still more slender stems with smaller leaves. Bottini considers 

 micropus to be a hybrid between reflexum and populeutn. 



32. HYPNDM STAEKEI Brid. 



Autoicous ; in trailing dark green tufts, pinnate. Stem-leaves 

 spreading, decurrent and cordate at base, ovato-lanceolate, nerved half- 

 way, margin serrate ; cells oval-hexagonal, quadrate and rectangular at 

 angles. Seta rough, capsule ovate, gibbous, brown ; lid conical. 

 (T. CIV, E.) 



SYH.—Hypnum Starkei Brid. Muse. rec. II, p. II, 107 (i8oi), Sp. muse. II, 166 (1812), Mant. 

 170 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 595 (1827). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 310 (1807). Roehl. 

 Deutsch. Fl. iii, 108 (1813). Schwaeo. Suppl. I, P. II, 251 (1816). Hukben. Muse, 

 germ. 638 (1833). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 432, p.p. (1851). Boulay Muse. Fr. 128 (1884). 



Hypnum reflexum Var. p. Starkei Hartm. Sltand. Fl. 2 ed. 346 (1832) et Var. y. umbratum 

 Myrin Corol. Fl. ups. 45, p.p. (1833). 



Brachythecium Starkei Var. /8. alpestre Schimp. Bry. eur. fase. 52 — 54, p, 10, t. 7, fig. /8. 

 (1853), et Var. robtistiim Ssmops. 540 (i860), 2 ed. 651. 



Hypnum grimsulanum Bry. eur. fasc. 52 — 54, p. 11 in obs. 



Brachythecium Starkei Milde Bry. Siles. 333, p.p. (i86g). De Not. Epilogo 124 (1869). 

 HoBK. Synops. 2 ed. igg (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 327, t. g4 (i8g2). Dix. James. 

 Stud. Handb. 404 (i8y6). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, gg {1896). 



Autoicous ; in spreading yellowish green rather glossy tufts. Stem 

 depressed, weak, pinnate with numerous arcuate branches, sometimes 

 rooting at apex, and few short ramuli ; stem-lea\es divergent, recurved at 

 point, decurrent and excavate at angles, cordate-o\ate in lower §, then 

 narrowed into an acute acumen, not plicate, margin plane, feebly toothed 

 above, nerved above middle ; cells at base o^•al-hexagonal, the angular 

 numerous, quadrate and roundish-hexagonal, above 7 — g times as long as 

 broad ; branch-leaves dense, divergent, resembling the stem-leaves, but 

 gradually shorter and twisted at point, not plicate, sharph- serrate at 

 margin. Perich. bracts subsquarrose, the inner sheathing and suddenly 



