Neckerace^.] 20S [Neckera. 



Var. p. PMllippei {Br. Sch.) Lindb. 



Plants prostrate. Leaves strongly undulate, suddenly ending in a long narrow 

 flexuose serrated point. 



Syn.— iVeci6«-a Philippeana Bry. Eur. fasc. 44 — 45, p. 11, t. 6 (1850). Schimp. Synops. 471. 



Neckera pumila vai. pili/era Jvsat. in Rabenh. Bryoth. n. 749. 



pumila var. Philippeana Wu.jm Bry, Siles. 282. Limpb. op. c. p. 706. 



—^ foniinaloides var. Pkilippei I-iudb, Muse. Scand. 40. 



Hab. — Usually with the type ; rare. 



Ash tree at Langrick Castle, Callander (McKinlay 1861) ! ! Inverarnan, Glen Falloch 

 (McKinlay 1863). Devonshire c. fr. {Dixon), 



4. NECKERA PENNATA (Z.) Hedw. 



Autoicous ; in flat glossy yellowish-green cushions. Stems pinnate, 

 with complanate branches ; leaves ovato-lanceoIatCj longish ovate, acumi- 

 nate, entire, nerveless. Capsule oblong, immersed. (T. CXXI, C.) 



Syn. — Sphagnum pennatum undulatum, vagina squamosa Dill. Hist. muse. 250, t. 32, f. 9 (1741) 

 et Herb. 



Fontinalis pennata L. Sp. pi. 2 ed. 1371 (1763). Web. Spic. FI. Goett. 37 (1778). Roth 

 Fl. Germ, i, 478 (1788). 



Hypnum pennatum Hall. Hist. st. Helv. no. 1297, t. 45, f. 2 (1768). Gmel. Syst, nat. ii, 

 1340 (1791). HoFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 57 (i79S). 



Weissia pennata Schrank Baiers. Fl. ii, 445 (1789). 



Neckera pennata Hedw. Deser. iii, 17, t. 19 (1792), Sp. muse. 100 (iSoi). Swartz Muse. 

 Suec, 70 (1799). Brid. Muse. rec. II, P. II, 2 (1801), Sp. muse. II, 23 (1812), Mant. 137 

 (1819). Web. Mohr. Bot. Taseh. 239 (1807). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 144 (1816). 

 FuNCK Moost. 52, t. 34 (1821). Grev. Seot. Cr. Fl. ii, 1. 109 (1825). Hook. Tayl. Muse. 

 Brit. 2 ed. 135, t. 4 suppl. (1827). Hueben. Muse. Germ. 570 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 69 

 (1838), Epilogo 19s (1869). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 302 (1848). Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. 

 fasc. 44 — ^45, p. 6, t. I (1850). C. MuELL. Synops. ii, 50 (1851). Wils. Bry. Brit. 414, 

 t. 34(1855). Schimp. Synops. 467 (i860), 2 ed. 565. Berk. Handb. 69 (1863). Milde 

 Bry. Siles. 281 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 183 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. fl. Oester.-Ung. 

 361 (1882). BouLAY Muse. Fr. 184 (1884). Husn. Muse. Gall. 290, t. 82 (1892). Dix. 

 James. Stud. Handb. 360 (1896). Limfr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 703 (1895). 



Pilotrichum pennatum Beauv. Prodr. 83 (1805). 



Cryptopodia pennata Roehl. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 82 (1813). 



Daltonia pennata Walk.-Arn. Disp. 54 (1825). Duby Bot. Gall. 553 (1830). 



Neckera Distichia pennata Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 238 (1827). 



Eleutera pennata Stuntz Bull. Torrey Bot. Club xxvii, 205 (1900). 



Autoicous ; growing in flat yellowish-green glossy cushions, 2 — 4 in. 

 high. Secondary stems ascending, irregularly pinnate ; branches short 

 spreading complanate. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, somewhat unsymmetric, 

 gradually pointed, the margin inflexed on one side at the base, serrulate in 

 lower half, with 3 — S faint undulations when dry, nerveless or sometimes 

 with two short nerves ; cells above longish rhombic, below narrow and 

 linear, roundish-quadrate at angles. Perich. bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 



