NECKERACEiE.] 2C» [Homalia. 



obtuse or apiculate, with a short nerve or none. Capsule symmetric, erect ; 

 lid rostrate ; calyptra cucullate ; peristome hypnoid. — Der. o/miXo? flat 



Of this genus 62 species are recorded, and our species is very closely allied 

 to Nechera complatiata, the chief distinction being in the endostome, which in 

 Homalia has a high basal membrane nearly half the length of the outer teeth. 



HOMALIA TRICHOMANOIDES (Schrd,:) Brid. 



Autoicous ; irregularly pinnate. Leaves complanate, decurved, Ungu- 

 late, obtuse, margin serrulate in upper half ; nerve thin, reaching middle ; 

 capsule erect, cylindraceous. (T. CXX, C.) 



Syn. — Hypnum repens fib'cifolium romosum, ramulis surreciis et minus contplanaiis Dili. Cat. Giss. 

 218 (1718), et in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 87. 



Hypnum pennatum, trichomanoides, spltndens, ramosum Diix. Hist muse. 269, t. 34, f. 8 

 (1741), et Herbar. 



Hypnum complanatum var. /S. HuDS. Fl. AngL 419 (1762). 



Hypnum trichomanoides Schreb. Spic. Fl. Lips. 88 (1771). Hoffm. Deutsch. FI. ii, 56 

 (1795). Wither. Bot. arrang. 3 ed. iii, 844 (1796). bMiTH Fl. Brit. 1287 (1804), Eng. 

 Bot. t. 1493. Torn. Muse. Hib. 143 (l8iQ4). P. Beauv. Prodr. 71 (1805). Hook. Tayl. 

 Muse. Brit. 91 (1818), Fl. Seot. P. II, 141 (1821). Gray Nat. arrang. Br. pi. i, 752 (1821). 

 C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 229 (1851). 



Hypnum complanatum j3. obtusum Ehrh. Hann. Mag, 1780, p. 237. 



Leskea trichomanoides Leyss. FI. Hal. 267 (1783). Roth Fl. Germ. 463 (1788). Sibth. FI. 

 Oxon. 303 (1794). Swartz Muse. Suec. 58 (1799). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 36 (1801), 

 Sp. muse. II, SI (1812), Mant. 143 (1819). Schultz Fl. Starg. 311 (1806). Hkdw. Sp. 

 muse. 232 (1801). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 216 (1807). Roehl. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 85 



(1813). SCHWAEG. Suppl. 1, P. II, 163(1816). FUNCK MoOSt. 54, t. 35 (182I). HuEBEN. 



Muse. Germ. 579 (1833). De Not. Prodr. 61 (1838). Rabenh. D. fcr. fl. II, s. 3, 252 (1848). 



Fuscina trichomanoides Schrank Bayer. Fl. ii, 451 (1789). 



Leskea Omalia trichomanoides Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 329 (1827). 



Neckera trichomanoides Hartm. Skand. Fl. 5 ed. 338 (1849). 



Homalia trichomanoides Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fasc. 44 — 45, p. 3, t. I (1850). WiLs. Bry. 

 Brit. 410 (1855). Berk. Handb. 72, t. 4 (1863). Milde Bry. Siles. 284 (1869). De Not. 

 Epilogo 198 (1869). ScHiMP. Synops. 472 (i860), 2 ed. 571. Hobk. Synops. 182 (1873). 

 BouL. Muse. Fr. 149 (1884). Husn. Muse. Gall. 293, t. 83 (1892). Dix. James. Stud> 

 Handb. 362 (1896). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 715, f. 335 (1895). 



Autoicous ; growing in glossy light green cushions, repeatedly dis- 

 tichously branched and with basal stolons. Leaves distichous, the central 

 and intermediate rows usually obsolete, complanate and decurved, un- 

 symmetric, from a narrow base, cochleariform-lingulate, obtuse or shortly 

 apiculate ; margin inflexed on one side at base, eroso-serrate in the upper 

 part ; nerve thin, reaching middle, single or forked, sometimes none ;. 

 cells small, roundish-hexagonal and rhombic above, rhomboidal at middle, 

 linear at base, quadrate at angles. Inner perich. bracts convolute, pointed ; 

 seta red ; capsule erect, symmetric, cylindraceous, reddish-brown ; calyptra 



