Hypnace^.] 141 [Hylocomium. 



5. HYLOCOMIUM PARIETINUM (L.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; stem erect, simply pinnate, red, without paraphyllia, 

 branches slender, curved. Leaves imbricated, shining, yellowish green, 

 elliptic, obtuse, entire, two-nerved at base ; perich. bracts erect, acutely 

 pointed. Capsule ovate-oblong, curved, cernuous ; lid conical. 

 (T. CX, D.) 



Syn. — Muscus erectus, foliis angusiis caulibus appressis Doody, Ray Synops. 2 ed. App. 337 

 (i6g6). 



Hypnum longum erectum, foliis angustis caul. app. Dill, in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 83, No. 20 

 (1724). 



Hypnum cupresiiforme tenuius et compressius Dill. Hist. muse. 312, t. 40, f. 47 (1741) et 

 Herbar. 



Hypnum parietinum L. Fl. Suec. 2 ed. no. 1200 (1755), FI. Lapp. no. 406. 



Hypnum cwpidatum jS. inerme Weiss Crypt. Goett. 253 (1770). Weber Spic. Fl. Goett. 59 

 (1778). 



Hypnum compressum Schreb. Spic. Fl. Lips. 96 (1771). Neck. Meth. muse. 159 (1771). 

 Del. gallo-belg. ii, 477 (1778). Wahlenb. Fl. Lapp. 373 (i8i.i), Fl. Carpat. 357 

 (1814). 



Hypnum Schreberi Willd. Prodr. Fl. Berol. 325, No. 955 (1787). Roth Fl. Germ, i, 

 469 (1788). Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 295 (1794). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 88 (1801), Sp. 

 muse. II, 122 {1812), Mant. 159 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 420(1827). Sm. Fl. Brit. 1315 

 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1621, Turn. Muse. Hib. r76 {1804). P. Beauv. Prodr. 65 (1805). 

 Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 340 (1807). Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 104 (1813). Schwaeg. 

 Suppl. I, P. II, 227 (1816). Hook, Tayl. Muse. Brit. 96 {1818). Hook. Fl. Scot. P. 2, 

 143(1821). Gray Nat. arr. i, 755(1821). Funck. Moost. 58, t. 40 (1821). Hueben. 

 Muse. germ. 650 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 21 (1838). Hartm. Skand. fl. 4 ed. 420 

 (1843). Raeenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 288 (1848). C. Muell. Synop. ii, 384(1851). Br. 

 ScH. Bry. Eur. fasc. 57 — 61, p. 51, t. 37 (1854). WiLS. Bry. Brit. 376 (1855). Schimp. 

 Synops. 645 (i860), 2 ed. 790. Berk. Handb. 108 (1863). Milde Bry. Siles. 371 

 (i8Eg). Hobk. Synops. 179 (1873). Boulay Muse. Fr. 13 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. 

 N. Amer. 404 (1884). Husnot Muse. gall. 418, t. 61 (1894). Dix. James. Stud. 

 Handb. 491 (i8g6). 



Hypnum purum p. Huds. Fl. angl. 504 (1762). 



Hypnum inerme Schrank Baier. fl. ii. No. 149 (1789). 



Hypnum muiicum Geuns. PI. Belg. spic. 46 (1788). Swartz Muse. Suec. 60 (1799). 



Stereodon Schreberi Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. viii, 42 (1865). 



Pleurozinm Schreberi Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. xii, 537 (1869). 



Hylocomium Schreberi De Not. Epilngo 92 (1869). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. 

 iii, 587 (1901). 



Hylocomium parietinum LiNDB. in Acta Soe. sc. fenn. x, 62 (1878), Muse, Scand. 

 37 (1879)- 



Dioicous ; in yellowish-green glossy lax tufts. Stem erect, simply 

 pinnate, red, without paraphyllia, 4 — 6 in. high, the branches divergent, 

 attenuated and curved downward. Stem-leaves imbricated, suberect, 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, entire, margin incurved toward apex and faintly 

 crenulate at point, nerves two, very short ; cells linear, at basal angles 



