Hypnace^.] i6o [Stereoion. 



397 (1855). Br. Sch. Biy. Eur. fasc. 57—61, p. 25, t. 14, 15 (1854). Schimp. Synops. 

 625 (i860), 2 ed. 755. Berk. Handb. 125, 1. 11 (1863). Milde Bry. Siles. 361 (1869). 

 HoBK. Synops. 173 (1873). Boulay Muse. Fr. 31 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. 

 Amer. 394 (1884). HusN. Muse. Gall. 404, t. 116 (1894). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 

 470 (i8g6). LiMPR. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 484 (1899). 



Neckera cupressiformis Willd. Prodr. fl. Berol. 936 (1787). 



Hypnum nitens Timm. Prodr. fl. Megap. no. 828 (1788). 



Hypniim decipiens Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 73 (1796). 



Hypnum nigro-viride Dicks. Fasc. crypt. IV, 18 (1801). 



Hypnum Stereodon cupressiforme Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 605 (1827). 



Dioicous ; growing in flat expanded tufts, glossy, pale green, 

 olivaceous or brownish, sometimes blackish green. Stem creeping, 

 ascending or suberect, distantly or regularly pinnate, branches ascending 

 more or less falcate at point, with very few subulate paraphyllia. Leaves 

 dense in two rows, imbricated, falcato-secund or hooked, lanceolate, 

 gradually running out into a long subulate point, slightly decurrent at 

 base, concave, not plicate, margin often recurved on one side above the 

 base, entire or serrulate in the point, nerves none or two very short ones. 

 Cells linear-vermiform 10 — 15 times long as broad, incrassate and 

 rectangular at base, at angles a group of 5 — 6 rows of vesicular hyaline, 

 incrassate quadrate cells, often opake with granules ; branch-leaves smaller 

 and narrower. Perich. bracts pale, outer divergent, inner sheathing, 

 elongate lanceolate, acuminate, nerveless, seta purple ; capsule cernuous 

 or suberect, cylindraceous, lightly curved, castaneous; lid convex, 

 rostellate, annulus orange of two rows, teeth united at base 

 rufous, endostome yellowish, papillose, processes perforated, cilia 2 — 3. 

 Male infl. gemmiform, the bracts ovate, with long subulate recurved 

 points. 



Hab. — On the ground, stone walls, thatched roofe, tree-trunks, very common. 

 Fr. 10 — 2. 



Var. p. tectorum Bry. eur. 1. c. t. 15, f. B. 1—2. 



In dense tumid, yellow-green and brownish tufts, with flac margins. 



Stems stout, trailing, pinnate, the branches close, curved, erect. Leaves 



densely imbricated, oval, acuminate, secund and decurved at points. Capsule 

 shorter, incurved, lid rostellate. 



Hab. — On roofs and walls. 



Sand hills, St. Annes, Lane. (Bcesley 1901) 1 1 



Var. y. breTisetum Schimp, Synops. 626. 



In dense yellow-green cushions, with many unequal, short sti£F and pointed 

 branches. Leaves scarcely secund, longish-oval, concave, with a fine point, 

 entire. Capsule on a short seta, lid acute. 



