Hypnace.e.1 120 [Lesquereuxia. 



2. LESaUBREUXIA FILAMENTOSA {Dicks.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; in dull green depressed mats. Branches irregular, 

 suberect and incurved ; leaves imbricated, secund, ovato-lanceolate, 

 oblique at points, margin flat, recurved, nerve vanishing in the apex. 

 Capsule subcernuous, subcylindric, curved, lid conical. (T. CVII, D.) 



SyK.—Hypniim filamcntosiim Dicks. Fasc. Crypt. II, 11 (1790), exd. syn. Dillen. Sm. F1. Brit. 

 1308 (1804). Brid. Sp. muse. II, 156 (1812), Mant. 167 (i8ig). Bertol. Amoen. 438 

 (1819). C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 478 (1851). 



Lcskea iiicurvata Hedw. Sp. muse. 216, t. 53 {1801). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 248 (1807). 

 Brid. Sp. muse. II, 80, Mant. 147, Bry. univ. ii, 320. Wahlenb. F1. Lapp. 368 (1812), 

 Fl. Carpal. 356 (1814). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 177 (1816). Hueben. Muse. germ. 

 588 (1833). Ue Not. Syllab. 64 (1838). 



Hypnum atroviremt (non Dicks.) Sm. Fl. Brit. 1307, Eng. Bot. t. 2422. Turn. Muse. 

 Hib. 169 (1804). Hook. Tayl. Muse. Brit, iro (1818). Hook. Fl. Scot. P. II, 147 

 (1821), Br. Fl. ii, 93 (1833). Gray Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 764 (1821). WiLS. Bry. Brit. 

 359 (1855)- 



Hypnum inctirvaUim P. Beauv. Prodr. 65 (1805). 



Leskea atrovirens Hartm. Skand. Fl. 5 ed. 337 (1849). 



Pseiidoleskea atrovirens Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fase. 49—51. p. 2, t. i {1852). Schimp. 

 Synops. 491 {i860), 2 ed. 603. Berk. Handb. 138 (1863). De Not. Epilogo 242 (1869). 

 MiLDE Bry. Siles. 269 {1869). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 191 (1884). Husn. Muse. Gall. 

 305, t. 87 (1892). LiMPR. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 809 (1895). Dicks. James. 

 Stud. Handb. 380 (1896). 



Lesquereuxia JilamcHiosa Linde. Muse. Scand. 36 (1879). 



Leskea filamentosa Kindb. Laubm. Schwed. & Norw. 12 (1883). 



Dioicous ; in rigid wide spreading brownish green mats, ferruginous 

 at base, irregularly branched, the branches short and incurved ; para- 

 phyllia very small. Leaves more or less secund, ovato-lanceolate, 

 oblique-pointed, concave, brownish, margin flat with t\\o striae between it 

 and the continuous ner\e ; cells uniform, oval — 4 to 6 sided, often 

 projecting like papillae at both sides of a cell-angle, at middle of base 

 shortly rectangular ; branch-leaves smaller, margin toothed above. 

 Perichcetial bracts sheathing, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, acute ; seta 

 red smooth, capsule horizontal, oval, gibbous, reddish-brown, incurved, 

 lid conic with a narrow annulus ; teeth of peristome united at base, pale 

 brown, endostome yellow with lanceolate-subulate processes. 



Hab. — Rocks and stones. Fr. 3 — 4. 



Ben Lawers, near Loch-na-Chat ! ! Ben Cniachpen. Loch Brandy, Clova {Fergusson 

 1868) 1 ! 



This species and the next, were united by Hooker under the name 

 atrovirens, the descriptions in Dickson's work being too brief for certain 

 identification, and in the early part of the century, minute description was 



