Hypnace^.] 153 [Semaiophyllum. 



Hypnum filicinum (non L.) Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 61 (1796). Roth, Schrank, 

 Beauvois, &c. 



Hypnum {Ptilitim) crhta-castrensis Sulliv. 1. c. Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laub. iii, 

 444 (1898). 



Hypnum (Ctenium) crista-castrensis Schimp. Synops. 632 (i860), 2 ed. 770. Lesq. James 

 Moss. N. Amer. 389 (1884). Boulay Muse. Fr. 27 (1884). 



Stereodon (Drepanium) crista-castrensis Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. viii, 41 (1864). 



Ptilium crista-castrensis De Not. Epilogo 101 (i86g). 



Dioicous ; in lax rigid yellow-green tufts. Stems 3 — 5 in. high, 

 suberect, simple or divided, beset with lanceolate paraphyses, pinnate, 

 the branches in two rows, close set and spreading horizontally. Stem- 

 leaves secund, from a broad ovate base, gradually lanceolate-subulate, 

 falcate, multiplicate, faintly serrate in upper half, nerves short and double 

 or none ; cells narrow and vermiform, smooth, the basal and angular 

 longer and wider. Branch-leaves secund, circinate, crowded. Perich. 

 bracts erect, pale, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, nerveless, seta 

 purple ; capsule cernuous or horizontal, cylindric, curved, brown ; lid 

 conical ; teeth orange, papillose, cilia 2 — 4. 



Hab. — In damp subalpine woods, not common. Fr. 7 — 8. 



Glen Dole, Clova (Drummond): Schehallion {Mcintosh). Finlarig burn and S. side of 



Loch Tay [Stirton) ! I Trosachs and by Loch Ard ; Glen Strae, Dalmally 



(Braithwaite)\l Head of Hawes water [Dalton 1818). Naddle Forest (Dalton). 

 Borrowdale, Cumberland {Clowes). 



19. SEMATOPHYLLUM Mitt. 



Journ. Linn. Soc. vili, 5 (1864). 



Small casspitose mosses with creeping stems, pinnately branched. 

 Leaves small, glossy, smooth, basal cells oblong, fulvous, with 3 — 6 at 

 basal angles large and conspicuous. Capsule small, oblong, on a slender 

 seta, lid conic with a long subulate beak, calyptra cucullate, peristome of 

 Hypnum. — Der. a-rjjxa a mark, and <^vX\ov a leaf. 



A great and natural genus of some 150 species, the larger number of which 

 are found in S. America. We have only three species in Europe. 



Clavis to the species. 



Autoicous; leaves lanceolate, entire. demisSUm, 



Dioicous i leaves obovate rounded, serrulate. muans. 



