IIypnace^.J 138 IHylocomium. 



Hab. — On stones and walls in alpine woods, not common. Fr. 4. 



Clova mountains {Wilson 1S2S) \ Glen Dole (Urummoiirf) ! ! Trossachs {Mrs. Robertson). 

 Borrowdale, Westmoreland {Wright 1856). S. side of Loch Tay {Dr. Stirton) ! ! Near 

 Lodore and Grasmere {Biitstead) ! ! Keswick c. fr. {Miss Wright 1856). Mardale 

 {Stabler 1887). 



2. HYLOCOMIUM BREVIROSTRE {Ehrh.) Br. Sch. 



Dioicous ; stems ascending, arched, irregularly bipinnate, with 

 branched paxaphyllia. Stem-leaves squarrose, cordate plicato-striate, 

 suddenly contracted into a narrow acumen, branch-leaves ovate, 

 acuminate, all serrulate, two-nerved at base. Capsule ovate-oblong, 

 cernuous, lid conical, rostellate. (T. CIX, E.) 



Syn. — Hypnum brevirostrum Ehrh. PI. crypt, exs. No. 85 (1788). Roth. F1. Germ, iii, P. I, 

 317 (1800). P. Beauv. Prodr. 61 (1805). Schultz F1. Starg. 331 (1806). Brid. Sp. 

 muse. II, 195 (1812), Mant. 175 (i8ig), Bry. univ. ii, 506 (1827). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, 

 P. II, 279 (1816), et III, P. I, t. 225 (1827). Hook. F1. Scot. P. 2, 146 (1821). 

 FuNCK. Moost. 64, t. 48 (1821). Hook. Tayl. Muse. Brit. 2 ed. 182 (1827). Grev. 

 Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 337 (1828). Hueben. Muse. germ. 669 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 38 

 (1838). Hartm. Skand. fl. 4 ed. 429 (1843). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 278 (1848). 

 C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 459 (1851). WiLS. Brj'. Brit. 383 (1855), et in Eng. Bot. Suppl. 

 t. 2865. Berk. Handb. 113 (1863). Hobk. Synops. 181 (1873). Boulay Muse. Fr. 7 

 (1884). 



Hypnum irlquetrum j3. minus Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 354 (1807). Hook. Tayl. Muse. 

 Brit. 108 (1818). 



Hylocomium brevirostre Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fasc. 49—51. P- 10. *• 7 (1852). Schimp. 

 Synops. 655 (i860), 2 ed. 801. Milde Bry. Siles. 378 (iSfig). De Not. Epilogo 96 

 (1869). HoBK. Synops. 2 ed. 233 (l88t). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 407 (1884). 

 HusN. Muse. Gall. 424, t. 123 (1894). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 495 (1896). Limpr. 

 in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 584 (1901). 



Dioicous; in large, lax, somewhat rigid, glossy dark green tufts. 

 Stems erect, arched above and irregularly bipinnate, the branches 

 subdendroid, unequal; paraphyllia short and much branched. Stem 

 lea\-es subsquarrose, broadly cordate, auricled at base, plicate, suddenly 

 contracted into a long narrow acumen, margin plane, serrulate all round, 

 nerves two, short ; cells narrow, orange and rectangular at base ; branch- 

 leaves spreading, broadly lanceolate, serrated. Perich. bracts subvaginant, 

 not plicate, suddenly narrowed into a long, serrated recurved subula. 

 Seta purple, capsule cernuous or horizontal, longish ovate, reddish-brown, 

 shining, lid conical, obliquely rostellate ; peristome orange, processes of 

 endostome with oval apertures, cilia 2 -3. 



Hab. — Stony subalpine woods, not common. Fr. 1 1 — 2. 



New Forest {Lyell). Lydford, Devon. {Holmes) ! ! Tyn-y-Groes, S. Wales {Holt 1S85) I I 

 About Killarnev, plentiful (Wilson) ! ! Manchester {Hobson). Chirlesworlh Coombs 

 and Cheedale, Derby {Whitehead). Langdale {Barnes), Windermere {Clowes). Stock 

 Ghyll, Barro V Field, Kentmere Hall, Staveley, Naddle Forest, &c. (StabUr). 



