NECKERACEiE.] 202 \Neckera. 



Syn. — Muscus vufffaris minor cauUculis compressis Ray Syuops. 244 (1690). 



JUuscus ierrestris surculis compressis, tenuior ei minor Ray Synops. 2 ed. 39 (1696). 



Hypnum rtpens filicifolium ramosum, ramub's appressis et ntagiscomplanatis Diix. Cat. Giss. 

 218 (1718), et in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 87 (1724). 



Hypnum pennaium, compressum et spkndens, capsulis ovab's Dill. Hist. muse. 268, t. 34, 

 f. 7 (1741) et Herb. 



Hypnum complanaium L. Sp. plant. 1123 (1753). Huds. FI. Angl. 419 (1762). Weiss 

 Crypt. Goett. 218 (1770). Neck. Meth. muse. 155 (1771). Wither. Bot. arrang. ii, 

 681 (1776). LiGHTF. Fl. Seot u, 742 (1777). Web. Spic. FI. Goett. 49 (1778). Relh. 

 Fl. Cant. 408 (1785). Roth Tent. FI. Germ. 464 (1788). Hoftm. Deutsch. Fl. ii, S7 

 (1795)- Sm. Fl. Brit. 1286 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1493. Turn. Muse. Hib. 154 (1804). 

 P. Beauv. Prodr. 62 (1805). Hook. Tayu Muse. Br. 91 (1818), H. Seot. II, I4I (1821). 

 Gray Nat. arrang. i, 752 (1821). 



Hypnum omithopodioides Scop. FL Cam. 150 (1760). 



Leskea complanata Hedw. Fund. muse. II, 93, t. 10, f. 62—65 (>782), Sp. muse. 281 (1801). 

 SiBTH. Fl. Oxon. 302 (1794). Swartz Muse. Suec. 68 (1799). Brid. Muse. rec. II, 

 P. II, 34, t. I, f. 2 (l8oi), Sp. muse. II, 50 (1812), Mant. 143 (1819). Schultz Fl. Starg. 

 68 (1806). Web. Mohr Bot. Taseh. 243 (1807). Roehl. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 85 (1813). 

 Wahlenb. FI. Lapp. 567 (1812). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 163 (1816). Flnck Moost. 

 54, t. 35 (1821). De Not. Syllab. 61 (1838). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, s. 3, 252 (1848). 



Leskea Omalia complanata Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 327 (1827). 



Neckera complanata Hoeben. Muse. Germ. 576 (1833). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 43 (1851). 

 Br. ScH. Bry. Eur. fase. 44 — 45, p. 9, t. 5 (1850), Wils. Bry. Brit. 411 (1855). ScaiHP. 

 Synops. 470 (i860), 2 ed. 569. Berk. Handb. 71, t. 4 (1863). Milde Bry. Siles. 283 

 (1869). HoBK. Synop. 182 (1873). Boulay Muse. Fr. 184 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. 

 N. Amer. 200 (1884). HusN. Muse. Gall. 292, t. 83 (1892). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 

 361 (1896). LiHPR. in Rabenh. D. kr. 11. Laubm. ii, 710 (1895). 



Homalia complanata De Not. Epilogo 199 (1869). 



Eleutera omithopodioides Sthntz in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club zxvii, 209 (1900). 



Dioicous ; growing in lax pale green glossy tufts ; stems very slender, 

 the secondary ascending, pinnate, the branches often lash-like at end, 

 with a few lanceolate paraphyllia. Leaves unsymmetric, complanate, not 

 undulate, oblong-lingulate, obtuse with a short apiculus, finely serrulate 

 at apex, the margin inflexed on one side at base ; cells rhombic above, 

 linear below, and oval at the decurrent basal angles ; nerve none, or short 

 and forked ; leaves of the flagella ovato-lanceolale. Inner perich. bracts 

 long and sheathing, lanceolate-acuminate ; seta rather short, stramineous ; 

 capsule erect, elliptic-oval, reddish-yellow ; lid obliquely rostrate, half length 

 of capsule ; calyptra naked, or with a few scattered hairs ; teeth of peri- 

 stome pale yellow, narrow and lineal ; processes of endostome half as long. 

 Hab. — Trunks and branches of trees, sometimes on rocks. Fr. 11 — 12. 



Var. p. tenella Schimp. 



Very small and creeping. Leaves only half as large, obovate-lanceolate, short- 

 pointed, nerveless ; all the cells wider, rhombic. 



Bry. Eur. CoroU. 100 (1856). Limpr. Laubm. ii, 711. Neckera tenella Kindb. Laubm. 

 Sehwed. u. Norw. 5 (1883). 



Hab.— Near Casde Mill, Ringway ( Wilson 1833) ! Near Ladbrook, Warwick 

 {Bagnall 1876). 



Sect. 2. RHYSTOPHYLLUM Ehrh. Leaves transversely undulated. 



