HYPNACEiE.] 179 \Plapothecium. 



Autoicous ; in dense yellowish-green glossy tufts ; stems rigid, prostrate, 

 ascending, with fasciculate erect branches, attenuated at points. Leaves 

 crowded above, patent squarrose and secund, decurrent and subcordate 

 at base, ovato-lanceolate, gradually subulate, concave, serrulate, faintly 

 two-nerved at base ; cells at basal angles inflated, oval in 5 — 6 rows, 

 upper very narrow. Perich. bracts erect, lanceolate, suddenly subulate, 

 flexuose and serrated ; seta red ; capsule suberect, cylindric with a long 

 neck, slightly curved, castaneous, striated when dry ; lid obtusely conical ; 

 peristome pale yellow, inner whitish ; processes cleft between the articu- 

 lations, cilia two. 

 Hab. — Alpine rocks, not rare. Fr. 6 — 7. 



On most of the Breadalbane and Clova mountains. Glen Prosen (JFergusson) ! ! Ben 

 Luyal {Hooker 1808). Llyn Ogwen, N. Wales {Holmes). 



2. PLAGIOTHECIUM LATEBRICOLA {Wils.) Br. Sch. 



Dioicous ; in small shining tufts, the stems slender, ascending, with 

 i^'^ branches. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, subsecund, entire, with two faint 

 nerves at base, margin slightly reflexed. Capsule erect, longish-oval, 

 tapering at base; lid conical, pointed. (T. CXVII, C.) 

 Snju.—Leskea latebricola Wils. MSS. et Bry. Brit. 329, t. 54 (1855). 



Phgiothecium latebricola Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fasc. 48, p. 6, t. I (1851). Schimp. Synops. 

 575 (i860), 2 ed. 690. LiNDB. Not. ur Saells. Fn. Fl. fenn. foerh. ix, 32 (1867). Milde 

 Bry. Silas. 321 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 160 (1873). Boul. Muse. Fr. 87 (1884). Lesq. 

 James Moss. N. Amer. 363 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 349, t. 100 (1893). Dix. James. 

 Stud. Handb. 439 (1896). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. iii, 249 (1897). 



Philoscia latebricola Berk. Handb.' Br. m. 146 (1863). 



Hypnum scitulum Austin Bull. Torr. club, vi, 44. 



Dioicous ; very small, in yellowish-green shining tufts, the stem fragile, 

 ascending, the branches erect, radiculose at base. Leaves lax, bifarious, 

 erecto-patent, ovato-lanceolate, with long acute points, rather concave, 

 decurrent ; nerves obsolete ; margin entire, reflexed ; cells very narrow, at 

 basal angles lax, rectangular and quadrate. Perich. bracts ovato-lanceolate, 

 erect, with long points ; seta red ; capsule erect, longish-oval, yellowish- 

 brown, wide-mouthed ; lid acutely conical ; teeth lineal, pale yellow ; 

 processes narrow lineal, whitish ; cilia none. Male infl. small, gemmiform. 



Hab. — Wet shady woods, on old fern stocks and decayed alders, not common. 

 Fr. I — 2, rare. 



Belton bog, Yarmouth c. fr. (Palgrave 1824). Paper-mill wood, Over, Cheshire u. fr. 

 (Wilson 1828) ! ! Warrington \Wilson). Henfield, Sussex (Borrer). Todmorden 

 {Nowell) I ! Ide hill, Sevenoaks and Chipstead {Holmes 1887). 



3. PLAGIOTHECIUM UNDULATUM (Z.) Br. Sch. 

 Dioicous ; in whitish-green prostrate patches. Leaves complanate, 



