Hypnace^.] • 140 [Hylocomitm. 



Hyfinum filiclnum, Tamarisci follis majbribus sfleiulenlibus Dill. Hist. muse. 274, t. 35, 

 f. 13 (1741) et Herbar. 



Hypmim ramis planopennatis, continuata serie extensis L. Fl. Lapp. p. 319, n. 406 (1737). 



Hypniim proliferum L. Fl. Suec. 2 ed. 1020 (1745), Mantissa ii, 507 (1771). Huds. Fl. 

 Angl. 422 (1762). Weber Spic. Goett. 61 (1778). Curtis Fl. Lond. t. g {1777). 

 ViLL. PI. Dauph. iii, 899 (1786). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 68 (1801). Schultz 

 Fl. Starg. 316 {1806). Wahlenb. Fl. Lapp. 373 (1812), Fl. Suec. 2 ed. ii, 721. 



Hypnum parietinum L. Syst. Veg. 1590. HuDs. Fl. Angl. 422 (1762). Weiss Cr. Goett, 

 232 (1770). Neck. Meth. muse. 175 (1771). Schmidel Icon, et Anal. t. 58, f. 3 (1776) 

 Wither. Bot. arrang. ii, 684 (1776). Lightf. Fl. Scot, ii, 751 (1777). Hedw, 

 Fundam. ii, 94, t. 4, f. 13 (1782). Relhan Fl. Cant. 410 (1785). Roth Tent. fl. Germ, 

 i, 467 (1788). HoFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 60 (1796). Swartz Muse. Suee. 73 (1799) 

 Hull Br. fl. P. II. 271 {1799). 



Hypnum splendens Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 295 (1794). Host Syn. pi. Austr. 591 (1797). 

 Hedw. Sp. muse. 262, t. 67, fg. 6—9 (1801). Sm. Fl. Brit. 1296 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 

 1424. Turn. Muse. Hib. 156 (1804). P. Beauv. Prodr. 72 (1805). Web. Mohr Bot. 

 Tasch. 338 (1807). VoiT Muse. herb. 105 (1812), et in Sturm Fl. Germ. II, fase. 13. 

 Briu. Sp. muse. II, 137 (1812), Mant. 163 (1819), Bi^. univ. ii, 435 (1827). Roehl. 

 Deutseh. fl. iii, 101 (1S13). Schwaeo. Suppl. I, P. II, 237^(1816). Hook. Tayl. Muse, 

 brit. 103 (1818). Hook. Fl. Scot. 144 (1821). Fukck Moost. 60, t. 42 (1821). Gray 

 Nat. arrang. i, 759 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 656 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 17 

 (183S). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 267 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 457 (1851). 

 WiLS. Bry. Brit. 381 (1855). Berk. Handb. no, t. 9 {1863). HoBK. Synops. 180 (1873). 

 BouL. Muse. Fr. g (1884). 



Hylocomium sfleiidmsBB. Sch. Bry. Eur. fasc. 49 — 51, p. 5, t. i (1852). Schimp. Synops. 

 652 (i860), 2 ed. 798. Milde Bry. Siles. 377 (i86g). De Not. Epilogo 93 (iS6g). 

 Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 232 (18S4). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 407 (1884). HusN. 

 Muse. gall. 422, t. 122 (iS94). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 493 (1896). Limpr. in 

 Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 577, f. 436 (1901). 



Thuidium sflendens Brockm. Laubm. Meeklenb. 118 (1869). 



Hyloconvnm proliferum Lindb. i.i Acta Soc. sci. fenn. x, 20 (1S71). 



Dioicous ; yellowish or olivaceous green, glossy. Stem 3 — 6 in. 

 long, erect or ascending, interruptedly bi-tri-pinnate, rising by arcuate 

 stages, the branches slender and acute. Paraphyllia numerous with very 

 slender divisions. Stem-leaves imbricated, broadly ovate, suddenly 

 narrowed into long flexuose points, slightly plicate, concave, roughish 

 towards apex at back with distant spinules, margin recurved below, 

 serrulate above, nen'es two, \ length of leaf; cells small, orange at base, 

 narrow oval. Branch-leaves oval, pointed. Perich. bracts convolute, 

 broadly lanceolate, with slender recurved points ; seta purple, smooth, 

 capsule ovate, cernuous, castaneous, lid conico-rostellate ; teeth united at 

 base, yellow, cilia 2 — 4. 



Hab. — Heaths and woods, common. Fr. 4, rare. 



Linnaeus strangely confounded this species with Thuidium tamariscifoUum 

 and also with H. parietinum as evidenced by his herbarium, and this led to 

 similar misunderstanding among some of his immediate successors, so that it is 

 very difficult to clear up the synonymy of the three species. 



Sect. B. PLEUROZIUM. Stem regularly pinnate, without paraphyllia. 

 Stem-leaves ovate. 



