Hypnace.e.J 113 [Hypnum. 



More robust, trailing, usually polygamous, in lax glossy golden green 

 tufts, branches few, somewhat complanate. Leaves patent, straight scarcely 

 plicate, flat and entire, broadly ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, entire or 

 with a few distant teeth toward apex. 



Syn. — Hypnum Mildeanum Schimp. Synops. 694 (i860). 



Brachythecium Mildeanum Milde in Bot. Zeit. 1862, p. 453 ; Bry. Siles. 330. Limpr. 

 op. c. 66. 



Hypnum acittum Mitt, in Journ. Lin. Soc. viii, 33, t. 6 (1865). Sulliv. Icon. muse. 

 Suppl. 99, t. 73. 



Brachythecium salebrostim y, palustre Schimp. Syn. 2 ed. 641 (1876). Dix. James. Stud. 

 Handb. 401. Husn. Muse. Gall. 324. 



Hypnum plumosum Var. Mildei Kindb. Laubm. Schwed. and Norw. 36 (1883). 



Brachythecium salebrosum Var. Mildeanum Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 198. 



Hab. — Wet places in clay fields and sand by the sea shore. 



Sands at Southport (Marrat 1854) ! ! Hayle sands (Curnow 1862) ! ! Fourdoun, 

 Kincardine and St. Pallides, Aberdeen (Sim 1870) ! ! Auchinblae, Kincardine (Hunt 

 1870). Tents Muir, Fife (Howie 1834). 



I have tried in vain to distinguish this specifically from H. plumosum, 

 although Lindberg and others keep it distinct. 



39. HYPNUM ALBICANS Neck. 



Dioicous ; in lax whitish-green tufts, stems ascending, irregularly 

 branched. Stem-leaves crowded, imbricated, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 entire, plicate, nerved above half-way. Seta smooth, capsule cernuous, 

 oval, lid conical. (T. CIV, C.) 



Syn, — Hypnum ierrestre erectum hiimilius albicans ramulis teretibus Dill, in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 

 83 (1724). 



Hypnum sericeum gracile albicans, capsulis subrotundis Dill. Hist. muse. 328, t. 42, f. 63 

 (1741), et Heibar. 



Hypnum albicans Neck. Meth. muse. 180 (1771). Wither. Bot. arrang. Br. veg. ii, 688 

 (1776). HoFFM. Deutsch. Fl. ii, 68 (1795). Hedw. Muse, frond, iv, 13, t. 5 (1797), Sp. 

 muse. 251 (1801). SwARTZ Muse. suec. 64 (1799). Roth Fl. Germ, iii, P. 1, 302 (1800). 

 Brid. Muse. ree. II, P. II, 163 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 188 (1812), Mant. 174 (1819), Bry. 

 univ. ii, 492 (1827). Smith Fl. Brit. 1309 (1804). Eng. Bot. t. 1300. Turn. Muse. Hib. 

 171 (1804). ScHULTZ Fl. Starg. 333 (1806). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 330 (1807). 

 RoEHL. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 112 (1813). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 214 (1816). Hook. 

 Tayl. Muse. Br. loi (1818). Gray Nat. arrang. Br. pi. i, 758 (1821). Hook. Fl. 

 Scot. P. 2, 144 (1821), Brit. Fl. ii, 84 (1833). Funck Moostasch. 57, t. 39 (1821). 

 HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 635 (1833). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 294 (1848). C. Muell. 

 Synops. ii, 360 (1851). Wils. Bry. Br. 337 (1855). Berk. Handb. 78, t. 5 (1863). 

 Hobk. Synops. 149 (1873). 



Neckera albicans WillDk Prod. Fl. Berol. n. 940 (1787). 



Hypnum flavescens Roth Fl. Germ, iii, P. I, 303 (1800). 



Brachythecium albicans Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fase. 52 — 54, p. ig, t. ig (1853). Schimp. 

 Synops. 534 (i860), 2 ed. 644. De Not. Epilogo 116 (1869). Milde Bry. Siles. 338 

 (i86g). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 198 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 337 (1884). 

 HusN. Muse. Gall. 324, t. 93 (i8g2). Dix. James Stud. Handb. 4Q0 (1896). Limpr. in 

 Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Lauljm. iii, 124 (i8g6). 



