HypnacEjE.j ii8 [Lesquereuxia. 



Nfckcra scricca Hedw. Fund. muse. II, 93 (1782). Roth F1. Germ, i, 463 (1788). Sibth. 

 Fl. Oxon. 305 (1794). 



Lcskia siricca Hedw. Descr. iv, 43, t. 17 (1794). Swartz Muse. Suec. 69 (1799). Brid. 

 Muse. rec. II, P. 11, 40 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 60 (1812), Mant. 144 (i8ig), Bry. univ. ii, 

 295 (1827). ScHULTZ Fl. Starg. 312 (1806). Roehl. Deutseh. Fl. iii, 86 (1813). 

 Wahlene. Fl. Carp. 356 (1814). Schwaeg, Suppl. I, P. II, 178 (1816). Funck 

 Moostasch. 55, t. 36 (1821). Hueben. Muse. Germ. 5S0 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 63 

 (1838). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 252 (1848). WiLS. Bry. Brit. 333 (1855). Hobk. 

 Synops. 144 (1873). 



IsotUecium scriceum Spruce Muse, pyren. n. 76 {1847). Boulay Muse. Fr. 140 (1884). 



Homalothccium sericeum Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fasc. 46 — 47, p. 3, t. i {1851). Schimp. 

 Synops. 525 (i860), 2 ed. 633. Berk. Handb. 142 (1863). Milee Bry. siles. 293 (1869). 

 De Not. Epilogo 203 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 196 (1884). HusN. Muse. gall. 

 318, t. 91 (1892). LiMPR. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 46 (1896). 



Pleiiropus scnceiis Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 395 (i8g6). 



Dioicous ; in short glossy A-ellowish-green tufts ; stem creeping, 

 irregularly pinnate with short crowded erect bifarious branches, incur\'ed 

 when dr}' ; stolons with decurrent leaves. Stem-lea^•es crowded, erecto- 

 patent, not decurrent, from a narrow ovate base, lanceolate-acuminate, 

 with 2 — 4 long plaits, margin flat or a little recurved, minutely serrated, 

 ner\'e thin, vanishing below apex ; cells narrow lineal, flexuose, oval and 

 quadrate at basal angles. Perich. bracts very long, scarcely plicate, 

 attenuated into long points ; seta reddish, very rough, capsule erect, long, 

 ovato-cylindric, narrow at mouth, ferruginous ; cal}-ptra with short erect 

 hairs at base, lid conical, rostellate ; teeth of per. yellow. 



Hab. — On boles of trees, walls and stones, common. Fr. 12 — 2. 



6. LESQUEREUXIA Br. Sch. 



Bry. Eur. fase. 46 — 49 {1851). 



Primary stem creeping, filiform, the branches forming secondary 

 stems with short ramuli, and numerous paraphyllia. Leaves erecto- 

 patent, appressed when dry, ovato-lanceolate, revolute at margin, with a 

 strong nerve; cells oval or narrowly fusiform, rectangular at base, 

 quadrate at angles, smooth or papillose. Calyptra cucullate. Capsule 

 oval and cur\'ed or regular and erect ; lid conic or rostellate, teeth of 

 peristome lanceolate-subulate, processes of endostome equalling them in 

 length, cilia abortive. Dark green or yellowish brown mosses, growing 

 on rocks or bark. — Der. after Leo Lesquereux a Swiss botanist. 



A small genus with which Pseudoleshea is united, and comprising about a 

 dozen species varying in size, but closely allied by their slender stems and 

 creeping habit. An excellent monograph of the North American species 

 by Dr. Best will be found in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for 

 May, 1900. 



