Hypnace^.] 132 [Myurella. 



This elegant little moss was confused by C. Mueller with Clasmatodon 

 paruuhts (Hampe) Sulliv. and called by him Nechra pcrptisUla Synops. ii, 666, 

 and Schimper in the Bryol. Eur. also united them under the new name 

 Anisodon perpusillus. The two plants are very much alike, but dififer sufficiently 

 in the fruit to represent two genera. The headquarters of our moss are in 

 Italy, where it grows on olive and orange trees and fruits freely, and it is 

 reported to have been found with j-oung fruit at Finlarig, near Killin, by 

 McKinlay. It still exists on the plane tree in front of Killin hotel, where 

 Schimper detected it. 



Subf. 3. STEREODOXTE^. Plants small or taU, stems creeping or 

 ascending, vaguely or pinnately branched, sometimes dendroid. Leaves 

 compressed or equal on all sides, with t^vo nerves or nerveless, the cells narrow, 

 smooth, or projecting at apex, the basal angular often short and dense. Capsule 

 inclined or cemuous, lid often with a short beak, processes of endostome rarely 

 perforate, with or without cilia. 



A. Thelie^e. Plants slender, Leskeoid in habit, the leaves papillose. 



It is unfortunate that on account of the difference in neuration, this group 

 should be separated from the Leskeas, with which they have the most natural 

 affinity. In Thelia the leaves have ciliated margins. 



12. MYURELLA Br. Sch. 



Bryol. Eur. fasc. 46 — 47 (185 1). 



Plants very small and slender, densely tufted, with fragile julaceous 

 stems, often stoloniferous, and few erect branches. Lea\es crowded, 

 imbricated, rounded or ovate, very concave, nearly smooth or papillose at 

 back, ner\-es two, ver}- short, or none. Calyptra cucullate. Capsule 

 siiberect, oval ; teeth of peristome lanceolate-subulate, endostome with a 

 high basal membrane, processes lanceolate, cilia short binate. — Der. 

 Named from resembling a mouse's tail. 



Cl.wis to the species. 



In loo&e tufts. Leaves with a recurved point, cells papillose. iencrrima. 



In dense cushions. Leaves obtuse, closely imbricated. jiUacea. 



I. MYUEELLA TENERRIMA {Brid.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; in laxer light green tufts. Leaves laxly imbricated or 

 divergent, suddenly terminating in a recurved apiculus, ovate, concave, 

 denticulate at margin. Capsule erect, longish, ochreous. (T. CIX, A). 



Syn. — Pterygynandrum? tenerrimum Brid. Mant. 132 (1819], Bry. univ. ii, ig6 (1827). 

 Hypniim moniliforme var. apiculatum SoMH. Suppl. Fl. Lap. (1826). 



