Neckerace^.] 203 \Neckera. 



2. NECKERA CRISPA (Z.) Hedw. 



Dioicous ; robust, in large lax tufts. Stem pinnate ; leaves com- 

 planate, strongly undulate, ovate-oblong, apiculate, with a short faint nerve 

 at base. Capsule on a short seta, erect, roundish ovate. (T. CXXI, A.) 



Syn. — Muscus terrestris major, rantulis compressis foliis superficie crispis Doody. Ray Synops. 

 2 ed. 337 (1696). 



Hypnum repe»s crispum ramuUs compressis, Jilicinorum more dispositis Dill. Cat. Giss. 217 

 (1718), et in Ray Synops. 3 ed. 89 (1724). 



Hypnum pennatum undulaium crispum, seiis ei capsulis brevibus Dill. Hist. muse. 273, t. 36 

 f. 12 A. B. (1741) et Herb. 



Hypnum crispum h. Sp. plant. 1124(1753). HuDS. Fl. Angl. 420(1762). Weiss -Crypt. 

 Goett. 221 (1770). Neck. Math. muse. 153 (1771). Wither. Bot. arrang. ii, 682 (1776). 

 LiGHTF. Fl. Seot. ii, 745 (1777). Web. Spie. Fl. Goett. 54 (1778). 



Neckera crispa Hedw. Fund. muse. II, 93, t- 12, f. 47 — 48 (1782), Sp. muse. 206 (1801). 

 Roth Fl. Germ, i, 462 (1788). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 11 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 27, 

 (1812), Mant. 138 (1819). SwARTZ Muse. suee. 70 (1799). Sm. Fl. Brit. 1273 (1804^, 

 Eng. Bot. t. 617. Turn. Muse. Hib. loi (1804). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 238 (1807). 

 Roehl. Deutseh. fl. iii, 83 (1813). Wahlenb. Fl. Carp. 355 (1814). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, 

 P. II, 147 (1816). Hook. Tayl. Muse. Brit. 78(1818). Schultz Suppl. Fl. Starg. 74 

 (1819). FuNCK Moost. S3, t. 33 (1821). Hook. Fl. Scot. II, 138 (1821). Gray Nat. 

 arrang. i, 748 (1821). Hueben. Muse. Germ. 573 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 68 (1838). 

 Epilogo 194 (1869). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 302 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. ii, 54 

 (1851). Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fase. 44—45, p. 9, t. 4 (1850). Schimp. Synops. 469 (i860), 

 2 ed. 568. WiLS. Bry. Brit. 412 (1855). Berk. Handb. 70, t. 4 (1863). Milde Bry. 

 Silas. 283 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 183 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. flora Oestar.-Ung.'364 

 (1882). BouLAY Muse. Fr. 181 (1884). Husn. Muse. Gall. 291, t. 82 (1892). Dix. 

 James. Stud. Handb. 360 (1896). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 707, Fig. 333 

 (i«9S). 



Leskea crispa Schrank Prim. Fl. Salisb. 835 (1792). 



Neckera Disiichia crispa Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 246 (1827). 



Dioicous ; growing in large robust tufts, glossy, yellowish or brownish 

 green, ferruginous at base. Secondary stem 4 — 8 in. long, irregularly 

 pinnate, ascending at points. Leaves erecto-patent, unsymmetric, inflexed 

 on one side at base, broadly Ungulate, with a short apiculus, and 5 — 6 

 transverse semicircular striae, serrate at point ; nerve none, or short and 

 forked ; cells rhombic above, linear below, roundish at basal angles. 

 Perich. bracts lanceolate, the inner convolute, tubular, longly acuminate, 

 nerved to middle ; seta thrice as long, pale yellowish ; capsule erect, 

 roundish-ovate, yellowish-brown ; calyptra slightly hairy when young, lid 

 long as capsule, with a subulate beak. Peristome pale yellow, teeth 

 narrow linear-lanceolate, endostome a narrow basal membrane with pro- 

 cesses subulate and half as long as teeth. 



Hab. — Trunks of trees and rocks, not uncommon. Fr. 11 — 3. 



Var. p. faloata £oul. Muse. Fran. 181 (1884). 



Branches denser, shorter, hooked at point. Leaves concave, falcato-secund, 

 dark lurid green, less undulated. 



