Hypnace^e.] io6 [Hypnum. 



cernuous, longish cylindric, curved, lid conical, teeth 3-ellow. Male infl. 

 gemmiform, the bracts ovate, acuminate. 



Hab. — On the ground in grassy places, rare. Fr. 12 — 2, 



Newchurch, Over, Cheshire {Wilson 1837). Hurstpierpoint and Maresfield, Sussex 

 {Mitten 1856) ! ! Poynings common (Mitten). Wakehurst {Davies 1862) ! ! 



A moss very close to H. plitmosum, but with the aspect of H. glareosum, 

 but the leaves are larger and less attenuated at points, and the seta is 

 always more or less rough at the upper end. It very rarely bears fruit, and 

 thus no doubt has been probably overlooked, as several other species 

 resemble it in the form of leaf. 



34. HYPNTJM GLACIALE I^Br. Sch.) Hartm. 



Autoicous ; in loose soft, creeping tufts. Stem-leaves erecto-patent, 

 broadly-ovate, suddenly with a lanceolate subula, plicate, nerved above 

 half-wa}-, feebly serrate, cells quadrate and rectangular at angles. Seta 

 rough ; capsule horizontal, ovate, gibbous. (T. CV, A.) 



Syn. — ? Hypnum Funckii Hornsch. in sched. C. Muell. Synops. ii, 429 (1851). 



Brachythecium glaciale Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 52 — 54, p. 11, t. 8 (1853). Schimp. 

 Synops. 541 (i86o), 2 ed. 652. De Not. Epilogo 124 (i86g). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. ig8 

 (1884). HusN. Muse. gall. 328, t. 94 (1892). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 405 (i8g6). 

 LiMFR. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, no (i8g6). 



Hypnum glaciale C. Hartm. Skand. Fl. 9 ed. g (1864). Boulay Muse. Fr. 128 (1884). 



Brachythecium Funckii (non Schimp.) De Not. Cronaca II, 21 (1867), Epilogo 125 (1869). 



Autoicous ; in extended loose and soft yellowish -green glossy tufts. 

 Stem creeping, with red radicles and short curved distant branches. 

 Stem-leaves erecto-patent, loosely imbricated, from a slightly decurrent 

 base, broadly ovate, suddenly with a somewhat oblique lanceolate point, 

 plicate, the margin faintly serrate, recurved at base, nerve lost at § the 

 length ; cells at basal angles quadrate and rectangular. Branch-leaves 

 subsecund, ovato-lanceolate, acute, faintly plicate, serrate. Perich. bracts 

 erect, outer ovate, apiculate, inner sheathing, convolute, suddenly 

 narrowed into a slender point, entire, nerveless or with a faint nerve. 

 Seta purple, rough with blunt warts, capsule horizontal, gibbous ovate, 

 without a neck, reddish-brown, black when old, lid long, conical, pointed; 

 peristome brownish-yellow, inner yellow, the processes split into two legs. 

 Male infl. small, the bracts ovate, pointed, nerveless. 



Hab. — Rocks at summit of higher mountains, very rare, 



Ben Lawers, on rocks, c. fr. {Dr. Nichol 1855) ! I Ben Cballum {McKinlay 1863) ! in 

 Herb. Schimper ? 



\'ar. /3. Huntii Schimp. 



