Hypnace^.] 139 [Hylocomiunu 



A fine moss very like Hypnmn striatum, but easily known by the villose stems, 

 and the suddenly contracted acumen to the stem-leaves ; the lid varies in the 

 length of the point, 



3. HYLOCOMIUM PYEENAICUM (Spruce) Lindb. 



DioicouE ; stems pinnate, with abundance of branched paraphyllia, 

 branches arched and distant. Leaves imbricated, broadly ovate with a 

 short acute serrated point, plicato-striate. Perich. bracts acuminate, 

 squarrose, capsule ovate, cernuous, lid conic, rostellate. (T. CX, B.) 



S\ti.—Hypnum Pyrenaicum Spruce Muse. Pyr. No. 4 (1847), ^t in Am. Mag. Nat. Hist, iii, 

 129, t. I (1849). C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 456 (1851). Boulay Muse. Fr. 6 (i88<)). 



Hypnum Oakesii SuLLiv. in Gray Man. Bot. U.S. 673 (1848), at in Mem. Amer. Aead. 

 new ser. iv, 173, t. 5 (1849). leon. muse. 159, t. 102 (i86^). WiLS. Bry. Brit. 383, 

 '■ 57 (1855). Berk. Handb. 112 (1863). Hobk. Synops. 181 (1873). Lesq. James 

 Moss. N. Amer. 408 (1884). 



Hypnum fimbriatum Hartm. Skand. fl. 5 ed. 330 (1849). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 465 

 (1851). 



Hylocomium fimbriatum Schimp. Bry. Eur. fasc. 49 — 51, p. 7, t. 3 (1852). 



Hylocomium Oakesii Schimp. Coroll. 139 (1856), Synops. 654 (i860), 2 ed. 800. Milde 

 Bry. Siles. 378 (i86g). De Not. Epilogo 94 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 233 (1884). 



Hylocomium Pyrenaicum Lindb. Muse, scand. 37 (1879). HusN. Muse. Gall. 423, t. 123 

 (1894). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 495 (1896). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laulim. iii, 

 582 (1901). 



Dioicous ; robust, yellowish-green, growing in depressed lax glossy 

 tufts. Stem arched, irregularly and distantly pinnate, beset with large 

 much-branched paraphyllia ; leaves imbricated, suberect broad longish- 

 oval, very concave, with a short broad point, plicato-striate, serrated in 

 upper half, with a single or forked nerve to middle ; cells uniform, linear- 

 serpentine, orange at insertion ; branch-leaves narrower, more acuminate, 

 less concave. Perich. bracts suddenly narrowed at middle into a 

 squarrosely recurved acumen ; seta purple, capsule ovate, cernuous, 

 gibbous, ferruginous, lid conic, rostellate, teeth reddish. 



Hab. — Alpine rocks. Very rare and sterile. 



Near summit of Ben Lawers {Lyon 1850) ! I Aberdeenshire {Fergussoit). 



4. HYIOCOMIUM PROLIFERUM (L.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; in lax yellowish shining tufts. Stem reddish, bi-tri-pinnate, 

 with branched paraphyllia ; leaves imbricated, longish-ovate, with a long 

 cirrhose acumen, serrated, with two short nerves. Capsule ovate, 

 cernuous, lid shortly rostrate. (T. CX, C.) 



Syn. — Hypnum repens filicinum, veluti spicatum Dill. Cat. Giss. 217 (1718), in Ray Synops. 

 3 ed. 86 (1724). 



