Hypnace^.] 144 [Itylocomium. 



setaceous points ; seta purple, capsule horizontal or drooping, castaneous, 

 ovate and gibbous, lid red, acutely conical. 



Hab. — Banks and woods, common. Fr. 11 — 12, scarce. 

 Var. /J. calyescens Wils. 



Resembling H. brevirostre ; stems procumbent at base, pinnate, the branchesj 

 arched, decurved and attenuated at points. Leaves broadly cordate-acuminate, 

 amplexicaul, serrated, with two short nerves ; cells at basal angles more 

 numerous, quadrate and rectangular. 



Syn. — Hypnum calvescens Wils. Bry. Erit. 387, in adnot. 



Hypnum subpinnatum Lindb. in Hartm. Skand. fl. g ed. 13. Milde Bry. Siles. 344. 



Hylocomitim subpinnatum Lindb. in Hedwigia 1867, p. 41, et in Notis. ur Saellsk. Fl. et. 

 Faun. fenn. foerh. 1868, p. 271. 



Hylocomitim calvescens Lindb. Muse, scand. 37. 



Hylocomium squarrosiim ji, patuluin JUR. Brockm. Laubm. Meckl. 149. 



Hylocomium squarrosum Var. subpinnatum Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 803, 



Pleurozium calvescens Kinds, in Rev. bryol. 1895, P- 82. 



Hylocomium squarrosum Var. B. calyescens Hobk. Synops. z ed. 23.4. Limpr. in Rabenh. 

 D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 596. 



Hab. — Wet rocky places in subalpine districts. 



Rowes wood {Wilson 1848)!! Whaley bridge {Whitehead 1863). Long Sleddale and 

 near Kendal (Binstead 1885) ! I Stock Ghyll {Stabler 1887). 



8. HYLOCOMIUM LOREUM (L.) Br. Sch. 



Dioicous; in lax expanded tufts, irregularly pinnate. Stem-leaves 

 subsecund, ovato-lanceolate, gradually extended into a long subulate 

 recurved acumen, plicate below, faintly two-nerved. Capsule ovate, 

 lightly striate when empty. (T. CXI, C.) 



Syn. — Hypnum repens, triangularibus reflexis foliis majus Dill. Cat. Giss. 219 (1718), et in 

 Ray Synops. 3 ed. 82 (1724), Hist. muse. 303 t. 39, f. 38 (1741) et Herbar. 



Muscus erectus major, foliis angustioribvs acutis Ray Synops. 2ed. 337 {1696). 



Hypnum repens surcuUs magis erectis, foliis reflexis langioribus cinctis, operculo capituli 

 magno Dill, in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 82 (172,1). 



Hypnum loreum montanum, capsulis subrotundis Dill. Hist. muse. 305, t. 39, f. 40 (1741) 

 et Herbar. 



Hypnum loreum L. Sp. plant. 1127 (1753). HuDS. Fl. Angl. 425 (1762). Weiss Cr. 

 Goett. 244 (1770). Neck. Meth. muse. 170 (1771). Wither. Bot. arr. ii, 687 (1776). 

 Relh. Fl. Cantab. 413 (1785). Roth Fl. Germ, i, 470 (1788). Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 

 297 (1794). HoFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 66 (1795). Swartz Muse. Suee. 59 (1799). 

 Hedw. Sp. muse. 294 (1801). Brid. Muse. rec. H, P. II, 143 (1801), Sp. muse. H, 

 206 (1812), Mant. 177 (1819), Bry. univ. ii. 515, {1827). Sm. Fl. Brit. 1324 (1804), Eng. 

 Bot. t. 2072. Turn. Muse. Hib. 185 (1804). Schultz Fl. Starg. 329 (1806). Web. 

 MoHR Bot. Tasch. 253 (1807). Wahlen. Fl. Lapp. 374 (1812). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, 



