Hypnace^.] 109 [Hypnim. 



Brit. 1320, excl. syn. Ehrh. (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1647, et 1261. Turn. Muse. hib. 179 

 (1804). ScHULTz Fl. Starg. 302 (180?). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 304 (1807). 

 RoEHL. DeutschTFl. iii, 107 (1813). Schvv.<.eg. Suppl. I, P. II, 248 (1816). Hook. 

 Tay. Muse. Brit. 105 (1818). Hook. Fl. scot. P. 2, 145 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 

 632 (1833). C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 367 {1851). WiLS. Bry. Brit. 345 (1855). Berk. 

 Handb. 80 (1863). Boulay Muse. Fr. 129 (1884). Hoek. Synops. 149 (1873). 



Hypnum ndabuUforme Gray Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 761 (1821). 



Brachythecium rutabulum Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fasc. 52 — 54, p. 11, t. g — 10 (1853). Schimp. 

 Synops. 542 (i860), 2 ed. 653. Milde Bry. Siles. 334 (i86g). De Not. Epilogo 109 

 (1869). Husn. Muse. gall. 323, t. 92 (1892). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 402 (1896). 

 LiMPR. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 106 (1896). 



Autoicous ; in loose glossy yellowish-green tufts. Stems trailing, 

 with irregular erect straight branches. Stem-leaves spreading from a 

 narrow shortly decurrent base, broadly ovate, shortly pointed, faintly 

 plicate, the margin plane, finely denticulate all round, or nearly entire, 

 nerved to § the length ; cells leptodermous, about 10 times long as broad, 

 the basal angular oval, hyaline. Branch-leaves more divergent, gradually 

 pointed, distantly serrulate. Perichsetial bracts squarrose, vaginant, 

 suddenly recurved with a long subulate point, entire, nerveless ; seta 

 purple, very rough with obtuse warts. Capsule cernuous, subcylindric, 

 curved, reddish-brown, contracted below mouth ; lid convex-conic, pointed, 

 annulus of two rows of cells, teeth purple, inner yellow with 2 — 3 cilia. 



Hab. — On the ground, stones, walls and hedge-banks, very common. 

 Fr. 12—2. 



Var. /3. longisetum Brid. 



Stems and setae elongated, the branches elongated, pinnate, lax-leaved ; 

 capsules longer and more curved. 



Syn. — Hypnum longisetum Brid. Sp. muse. II, 183. Bry. Eur. t. 10, fig. y3. Limpr. op. c. 108. 



Hab. — In moist pasture fields. 



Var. y. flavescens Schimp. 



Having habit of last, stout, pale, yellowish-green, leaves broadly ovate, 

 short pointed. 



Syn.— Bry. Eur. t. 10 y. Limpr. 1. e. 



Hab. — Grassy banks in limestone districts. 

 Var. I. plamulosum Schimp. 

 Smaller with short branches, leaves ovato-lanceolate with slender points. 



Syn. — Bry. Eur. t. 10, 2 Limpr. 1. c. 

 Has. — On rotten trees. 



