Mypnace^.] I43 [HytocomiuiH. 



at back in the upper part with minute spinulose papillas, multiphcate^ 

 margin serrulate, nerves two, slender, | — f length of leaf, cells narrow and 

 linear, lax, rectangular and yellow at base. Perich. bracts not plicate, 

 appressed, suddenly subulate and squarrosely recurved; seta purple, 

 capsule roundish -ovate, cernuous, castaneous, gibbous, lid conical, 

 peristome orange. 



Hab. — Woods and hedges, common. Fr. 12 — 2. 



A fine moss not often found in fruit. Sometimes the leaves are more or 

 less secund, and a form also occurs, especially on sandy places by the sea, in 

 dense dark green tufts, with short stems, and crowded leaves. St. Anne's, 

 Lancashire [Beesley 1901). 



7. HYLOCOMIUM SftUARROSUM (L.) Br. Sch. 



Dioicous ; erect, slender, irregularly pinnate. Stem-leaves crowded, 

 ovato-acuminate, squarrose and recurved, faintly striate, serrulate, 

 two-nerved at base. Capsule roundish-ovate, cernuous, lid conical. 

 (T. CXI, B.) 



Syn. — Hypnum refens triangularibus reflexis foliis minus. Dill, in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 82 (1724), 

 Hist. muse. 304, t. 39. f. 39 (1741) et Herbar. 



Hypnum squayrosum L. Sp. pi. 1127 (1753). HuDS. Fl. Angl. 425 (1762). Weiss Ciypt. 

 Goett. 242 (1770). Neck. Meth, muse. 171 (1771). Wither. Bot. anang. ii, 686 

 (1776). LiGHTF. Fl. Seot. 755 (1777). Web. Spic. fl. Goett. 70 (1776). Hedw. Fund. I, 

 94 (1782), Sp. Muse. 282. Relh. Fl. Cant. 413 (1785). Roth Fl. Germ, i, 469 

 (1788). SiBTH. Fl. Oxon. 299 (1794). HoFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii. 65 (1795). Swartz 

 Muse. Suec. 59 (1799). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 146 (1801), Sp. Muse. II, 204 (1812), 

 Mant. 176 (i8ig), Bry. univ. ii, 511 (1827). Sm. Fl. Brit. 1323 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1593. 

 Turn. Muse. Hib. 184 (1804). Schultz Fl. Starg. 329 (1806). Wee. Mohr Bot; 

 Tasch. 353 (1807). Wahlen. Fl. Lapp. 374 (1812), Fl. Carpat. 359 (1814). Schwaeg. 

 Suppl. I, P. II. 282 (i8i5). Hook. Tayl. Muse. Brit. 108 (1818). Hook. Fl. Scot. P. -.:, 

 146 (1821). Gray Nat. Arr. i, 763 (1821). Funck Moost. 64, t. 48 (1821). Hueben. 

 Muse. Germ. 667 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 40 (1838). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II. S. 3, 278 

 (1848). C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 443 (185 1). WiLS. Bry. Brit. 386 {1855). Berk. 

 Handb. 113, t. 10 (1863). Milde Bry. Siles. 343 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 181 {1873). 

 BouLAY Muse. Fr. 3 (1884). Lesq. James RJoss. N. Amer. 409 (1884). 



Hylocomiiim squarrosum Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fasc. 49—51, p. 9, t. 6 (1852). Schimp. 

 Synops. 656 (i860), 2 ed. 802. Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 233 (1884). Husn. Muse. Gall. 

 425, t. 123 (1894). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 497 (1896). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fi. 

 Laubm. iii, 594 (1901). 



Dioicous ; in lax soft tufts, bright or yellowish green. Stems red, 

 slender erect irregularly pinnate, the branches distant and unequal. 

 Stem-leaves squarrose and recurved, crowded, ova,te at base, concave, 

 becoming narrow and lanceolate, smooth at back, serrulate at apex, 

 nerves none or two very short ones ; cells pointed, linear, rectangular at 

 base, at angles oval. Branch-leaves narrower, less squarrose. Perich. 

 bracts not plicate, outer recurved, inner erect, lanceolate with long 



