HvpNACEiE.] 164 [Sterecdon. 



Branch-leaves smaller. Seta purple, flexuose ; capsule horizontal, strongly 

 contracted below mouth. 



Hab. — Rocks near summit of Ben Lawers [Jameson 1890) ! ! 



The fruit of this moss has only been found twice — near Heilingenblut by 

 Molendo, and by Jeanbernat in the Pyrenees. A closely allied and more widely 

 distributed species, — SUr. fastigiatus Brid. — ought also to be found here, but is 

 more attached to calcareous localities. 



7. STEEEODON CAHARIENSIS Mitt. 



Dioicous ; csespitose, the stem procumbent, pinnate. Leaves falcato- 

 secund compressed ; ovato-lanceolate, gradually acutely pointed, margin 

 of the upper half sharply serrulate, the cells narrow, linear, at angles 

 quadrate, hyaline. Perich. bracts erect, elliptic-lanceolate, serrulate at 

 apex ; capsule short, oval unequal, horizontal ; lid conic acuminate. 

 (T. CXIV, C.) 



Syn. — Stereodon Canariensis Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. viii, 5 (1864). 



Hypnum Canariense Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 222 (1884). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 477 

 (i8g6). LiMPR. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 472 (i8gg). 



Hypnum subcupressiforme Hampe. 



Hypnum WagJioniei Kindb. Cat. Canad. Muse. 234 (1892). 



Dioicous ; in flat dense tufts, rather glossy, bright green or light 

 fuscous in old plants ; stem creeping, pinnate, the branches spreading 

 horizontally, pointed, paraphyllia lanceolate. Stem-leaves crowded, 

 slightly falcato-secund, not decurrent, from an ovate base, gradually 

 lanceolate, acuminate, margins plane, sharply serrate above the middle, 

 nerves indistinct or none ; cells narrowly linear above, yellow and 

 rectangular at base, quadrate and rectangular, hyaline and about 25 at 

 basal angles. Perich. bracts erect, divergent and serrate at points, 

 lanceolate-acuminate ; seta red, capsule cernuous or horizontal, castaneous, 

 ovate, not curved, wide-mouthed ; lid convex with an acute point, 

 annulus of 2 — 3 rows ; teeth united at base, orange, incurved when dry, 

 pale and papillose at point, endostome smooth, processes split in the 

 middle, cilia two. 



Hab. — Wet rocks. 



Tore mountain, Killarney c. fr. (Wilson i82g) ! Cromaglown {Hunt 1867) ! On tree- 

 trunks, O'Sullivan's cascade (Ltndberg 1873) ! ! 



By both the former bryologists this moss was referred to 5. cupressiforme, 

 and more recently confusion has arisen between it and the next species, as it 

 appears that the range of the two at Killarney is identical. The capsule in 



