HvPXACE^.l 158 [Stereodou. 



secund, gradually lanceolate-subulate, serrated at point, margin reflexed 

 at base, nerves two, short, cells at base rectangular, at angles quadrate, 

 orange. Capsule C3'lindric, suberect. (T. CXIII, D.) 



Syn. — Hypnum imfonens Hedw. Sp. muse. 290,1.77 (1801). Rich, in Mich, F1. Amer. bor. ii, 

 315 (1803). Brid. Sp. muse. II, 220 (1812), Mant. 179 (1819). Schwaeg. Sappl. I, 

 P. II, 291 (1816). C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 291 et j8. chrysocytus (1S51). Br. Sch. Bry. 

 Eur. fase. 57 — 61, p. 28, t. 17 (1854). Schimp. Synops. 624 (i860), 2 ed. 754. Milde 

 Bry. Siles. 360 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 173 (1873). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 393 

 (1884). HusN. Muse. Gall. 404, t. 116 (1894). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 473 (1896). 

 LiMPR. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 470 (1899). 



Hypnum Stereodon imponens Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 618 (1827). 



Hypnum cupressiforme * imponens Boulay Muse. Fr. 34 (1884). 



Dioicous ; in spreading flat green or }-ellow-green tufts, pinnate, the 

 branches spreading in two rows, slender, hooked. Paraphyllia lanceolate 

 and palmate. Stem-leaves crowded, falcato-secund to each side, from a 

 scarce decurrent broadly ovate base, lanceolate-subulate, concave, the 

 margin reflexed at base, serrate towards point ; nerves two, verj' short, 

 cells narrow, linear, pointed, somewhat flexuose, empt}^, at base elongated 

 rectangular, yellow, at the concave angles a cluster of large orange 

 quadrate cells. Perich. bracts few, erect, inner broadly lanceolate with a 

 long subulate point, many -plicate nerveless, serrate at point ; seta reddish, 

 capsule suberect, cylindric, a little curved, castaneous; lid convex with 

 an acute point ; peristome yellow papillose. 



Hab. — On the ground on heaths and rocks, rare. 



Reigate heath, Surrey {Afi««( 1864)!! Strensal common, York (Spruce 1859). Oxshott 

 common, Surrey (M. Lnwson) ! ! Ben Lawers (Meldntm) ! ! Fritham plain, New 

 Forest [Holmes 1875). Copthorne common, Sussex (W. E. NichoIso7i). 



3. STEEEODON BAMBEEGEEI (Schimp.) Lindh. 



Dioicous; in dense tufts, fuscous, yellowish and green, erect, 

 sparingly branched. Leaves bifarious, glossy, from an erect base, 

 subcircularly recurved, oblongo-lanceolate-subulate, very concave, entire, 

 nerve short, forked or obsolete, cells at basal angles few, small quadrate, 

 orange. Capsule cylindraceous. (T. CXV, A.) 



Syn. — Hypnum Bambergeri Schimp. Synops. 698 (i860), 2 ed. 763. Braithw. in Science 

 Gossip iv, 62, fig. 47 (1868). Hobk. Synops. 173 (1873). Lesq. James Moss. N. 

 Amer. 397 (1884). HusN. Muse. Gall. 401, t. 115 (1894). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 

 476 (1896). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 473 (1899). 



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



Stereodon Bambergeri Lindb. Muse, scand. 38 (1879). 



