Hypnace^.] 163 [Stereodon. 



Perich. bracts erect, attenuated, entire, seta pale red ; capsule erect or 

 inclined, cylindric, ferruginous, lid with a long slender beak. 



Hab. — Walls, rocks and tree trunks, not uncommon. Fr. 10 — 12. 



Mr. Beesley finds it very fine and frequent about Preston, Lanes. It is 

 rare on the continent, except in Jutland, and coasts of Holland and France. Its 

 chief distinction from cupvessiformis lies in the direction of the leaves and their 

 symmetric form, as well as the rostrate lid, but the var. longivostris comes 

 very close ; it has however a distinctly different aspect. 



Var. jS. tenuis Hook. 



Stems very slender, the leaves narrowly lanceolate, only slightly curved ; 

 capsules long and narrow, lid rostrate. 



Syn. — Hypnum cupressiforme Var. tenue Hook. Muse. Brit. 113 (1818) 



Hab — Trunks and branches of trees. 



Frequent near Muckross Abbey, Killarney, and I have found it in fine 

 fruit, by the Orchy above Dalmally. Corresponds to var. fiUfovme of last 

 species. 



6. STEREODON REVOLUTUS. Mitten. 



Dioicous ; densely tufted, the stem procumbent, pinnate. Leaves 

 falcato-secund oblong-oval, shortly and broadly acuminate, with many 

 longitudinal plaits, nerves two very short, margin entire, revolute, cells 

 linear-vermiform short with blunt ends, at angles many, small and 

 quadrate. (T. CXIV, B.) 



Syn. — Stereodon revolutus Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. i, Suppl. 97 (1859). 



Hypnum cupressiforme Var. implexum Sendtn. MS. 



Hypnum Heufleri Juratz. in Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 1861, p. 431. De Not. Epilogo 

 176 (i86g). ScHiMP. Synops. 2 ed. 760 (1876). BouLAY Muse. Fr. 38 (1884). HusN. 

 Muse. Gall. 402, t. 116 (1894). 



Hypnum revolutum Lindb. in Hedwigia 1868, p. 108. Limpr. in Raeenh. D. kr. fl. 

 Laubm. iii, 479 (1899). 



Dioicous ; in dense tufts, yellowish-brown above, ochraceous at base, 

 rather glossy. Stems erect, fasciculate, pinnate, and with simple stems 

 intermixed, some subulate or lanceolate paraphyllia in the axils of the 

 leaves ; branches turned to one side, hooked at points. Stem-leaves 

 densely crowded falcato-secund, ovate at base, gradually lanceolate- 

 subulate, concave, irregularly plicate, nerves two, short, margin entire, 

 revolute ; cells linear-vermicular, with obtuse ends, 4 — 7 times long as 

 broad, yellowish at base, at angles a group of yellow quadrate cells. 



