Hypnace^.J 105 [Hypmm. 



narrowed into a recurved point, nerveless ; seta purple, rough with pointed 

 tubercles ; capsule horizontal, brown or black when old, thick and ovate, 

 lid hemispheric, with a conical point ; teeth reddish yellow. Male infl. 

 thick, ovate with ovate pointed bracts. 



Hab. — On rocks in alpine districts, and on rotten trees, very rare. Fr. 

 12—3. 



Ben Lawers {Dr. Stirton i858) ! ! 



This species, curium and glaciale have been so confused and so closely 

 resemble each other that I have found the utmost difficulty in separating them, 

 and unless helped by Limpricht's careful descriptions should have felt 

 disposed to unite them. Schimper evidently did not understand them, and 

 C. Mueller mixed mt^ Starkei •vtiih H . {RhyncJiostegium) speciosum; itomnflexum 

 it is easily separated by the form of the leaf. 



33. HYPNUM CAMPESTRE Bmch. 



Autoicous ; in lax spreading pale green tufts. Stem spreading with 

 ascending branches; stem-leaves dense, erecto-patent, ovato-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, multiplicate, nerved to middle, cells quadrate at angles. 

 Seta rough above, smooth below, capsule cylindric, curved. (T. CV, B.) 



Syn. — Hypnum campestre Bruch in schedis. 



Hypnmn rutabulum Var. campestre C. Muell. Synops. ii, 368 {1851). 



Brachytheciiim campesire Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 52 — 54, p. 12, t. 11 {1853). Schimp. 

 Synops. 543 (i860), 2 ed. 654. Milde Bry. Siles. 334 (i86g). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 

 200 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 344 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 323, t. 92 

 (1892). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 402 (i8g6). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 

 83 (1896). 



Brachytheciiim Schimperi Klinggr. Hob. Kr. Preuss. 168 (1858). 



Brachythecium Arnoldianum MoL. in Lorentz Moosstud. 120 (1864). 



Brachytheciiim stibalbicans De Not. Cronaca II, 20 (1867), Epilogo 118 (i86g). 



Autoicous ; closely resembling H. plumosum HuDS., growing in loose 

 irregular soft tufts, pale green and rather glossy. Stem repeatedly divided, 

 not stoloniform, the branches distant, unequal, pointed. Stem-leaves 

 crowded, erecto-patent, when dry loosely imbricated, elongated, ovato- 

 lanceolate, gradually line-pointed, irregularly sulcata, margin plane, entire 

 or faintly serrate at point, nerved to middle ; cells thin, without chloro- 

 phyl, quadrate and rectangular at base. Branch-leaves elongate 

 lanceolate, with two faint folds, sharply serrate above. Perichsetium 

 squarrose, the inner bracts suddenly narrowed into a long flexuose 

 recurved subula, with a few teeth at point, and a short faint nerve ; seta 

 red, flexuose, rough in the upper part with scattered tubercles ; capsule 



