HYPNACEiE.] 115 [Hypnuiii. 



capsule cernuous, ovate-oblong, gibbous, dark brown, lid conical, 

 apiculate ; teeth yellow. 



Hab. — Stony places among grass, mostly in limestone districts, not common. 

 Fr. 10, rare. 



Helk's wood, Ingleton c. fr. (Noviell) ! ! Stockton forest, York c. fr. (Spruce 1843) ! 

 Scawton Rowle, York c. fr. (Baker 1857) ! Thirsk and Shaw's gill, Yoredale (Baker 1861). 

 Cotteral wood (Hunt 1863) ! I Stroneuch rocks, Glen Lyon (Hunt 1872) ! Near Roche's 

 hotel, Glengarriff (Binstead igoo) ! ! 



Sect. 7. PLEUROPUS {Griff.) Mitt. Stems creeping or erect, with 

 acute straight branches. Leaves crowded, glossy, lanceolate, narrowed into 

 long points, with strong longitudinal plaits and nerved nearly to point. 

 Capsule cylindraceous, cernuous or erect, symmetric or curved. 



A very natural group of 24 closely allied species, and to show the 

 weakness of genera founded on a single character, Camptothecium httescens 

 occasionally bears fruit as straight as that of Hoinalothecinm sericeum 



SCHIMPER. 



Clavis to the Species. 



Stems densely coated with radicles, erect; seta smooth. , tvicholdes. 

 • not tomentose, creeping ; seta rough. 



Capsule cernuous, curved. hitescens. 



erect, symmetric. sericeum. 



41. HYPNUM TRICHOIDES Neck. 



Dioicous ; stems erect, irregularly pinnate, densely radiculose, the 

 branches short, acute, divergent. Leaves shining, erecto-patent, lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, entire, strongly plicate, nerved nearly to apex. Capsule 

 cernuous, oblong, arcuate, lid conical. (T. CVI, D.) 



Syn. — Hypnum palustre erectum trlchoides, ramulis crebris, luteo et rufo-virentibus glabris Dill. 

 Cat. Giss. 220 (1718); Hist. muse. 303, t. 39, f. 37 (1741) et Herbar. 



Hypnum trichoides Neck. F1. Gallo-belg. ii, 483 (1768), Meth. muse. 162 (1771). Poll. 

 PI. Palat. II. 1047 (1777). LiNDB. in Acta Soc. scient. fenn. X, 274 (1872). 



Hypnum nitens Schreb. Spic. Fl. Lips. 92 (1771). Weber Spic. Fl. Goett. 87 (1778). 

 Roth FI. Germ. I, 472 (1788). Dicks. PI. crypt. H, 12 (1790). Hoffm. Deutsch. Fl. 

 i'> 59 (1795). Wither. Bot. arrang. 3 ed. iii, 852 (1796). Swartz Muse. suec. 62 

 (1799). Hedw. Sp. muse. 255 (1801). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 93 (1801), Sp. muse. 

 II, 119 (1812), Mant. 159 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 560 (1827). Smith Fl. Brit. 1316 (1804), 

 Eng. Bot. t. 1646. ScHULTz Fl. Starg. 319 (i8o5). Wee. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 314 

 (1807). Wahlenb. Fl. Lapp. 381 (1S12), Fl. Carp. 360 (1814). Roehl. Deutsch. Fl. 

 iii, 105 (1813). Schwaeq. Suppl. I, P. II, 228 (1816). Hook. Tayl. Muse. Br. 100 

 (1818). Gray Nat. Arr. i, 757 (1821). Funck Moostasch. 59, t. 40 (1821). Hook. 

 Fl. scot. P. II, 144 (1821), Br. Fl. ii, 83. Hueben. Muse. Germ. 652 (1833). De Not. 

 Syllab. 30 (1838). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 297 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 381 

 (1851). WiLS. Bry. Brit. 337 (1855). Schimp. Bry. Eur. fasc. 57 — 61, p. 53, t. 39 

 (1854). Berk. Handb. br. m. 76 (1863). Hobk. Synops. 147 (1873). Boulay Muse. 

 Fr. 139 (1884). 



