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A Synopsis of the British Mosses: Containing Descriptions of All the Genera and Species, (With Localities of the Rarer Ones) Found in Great Britain and Ireland, Based Upon Wilson's "Bryologia Britannica," Schimper's "Synopsis," Etc.Hobkirk, Charles C. P. (Charles Codrington Pressick)

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A Synopsis of the British Mosses: Containing Descriptions of All the Genera and Species, (With Localities of the Rarer Ones) Found in Great Britain and Ireland, Based Upon Wilson's "Bryologia Britannica," Schimper's "Synopsis," Etc.

Name: A Synopsis of the British Mosses: Containing Descriptions of All the Genera and Species, (With Localities of the Rarer Ones) Found in Great Britain and Ireland, Based Upon Wilson's "Bryologia Britannica," Schimper's "Synopsis," Etc.
Author: Hobkirk, Charles C. P. (Charles Codrington Pressick)

Hobkirk, Charles C. P. (Charles Codrington Pressick)

Mosses -- Great Britain

AULACOMNION (47). Caps. oval or oblong apophysate, cernuous on
 a flexuose seta; perist. outer 16 teeth, lanceolate-subulate,
 barred; inner a thin membrane divided half way into 16
 carinate lacunose processes, with cilia two or three together.
 Branches bearing terminal globular masses (_pseudopodia_) of
 rudimentary leaves or gemmæ.                                       105.

 BARTRAMIA (61). Caps. globose, rather large, erect or
 cernuous, rarely pendulous, not apophysate; perist. double,
 single, or wanting; outer 16 equidistant lanceolate teeth;
 inner a membrane divided into 16 carinate lanceolate
 processes, splitting along the middle, alternating, sometimes
 with cilia; calyptra small dimidiate; leaves papillose or
 muriculate.                                                        128.

                   _f._ Caps. smooth, mostly pyriform.

 PALUDELLA (54). Caps. oval-oblong, slightly curved, cernuous
 or sub-erect, lid mammillate; peristome as in _Bryum_, inner
 without cilia; leaves squarrose.                                   125.

 TIMMIA (46). Caps. obovate, cernuous; perist. outer 16 teeth,
 inner, a membrane divided half way into 64 filiform processes;
 variously united at the summits; leaves sheathing, rigid,
 lanceolate; barren fl. axillary, gemmiform. Infl. monoicous.       104.

 ORTHODONTIUM (48). Caps. clavoto-pyriform, inclined; perist.
 outer 16 teeth indexed when dry; inner deeply divided into 16
 narrow carinate processes; leaves very tender, narrow, not
 sheathing; barren fl. axillary, gemmiform, aggregate. Infl.
 monoicous.                                                         106.

 LEPTOBRYUM (49). Caps. and perist. as in _Bryum_; stems of
 annual growth without innovations; leaves almost setaceous.
 Infl. synoicous.                                                   106.

 BRYUM (50). Caps. pyriform cernuous or inclined; perist. outer
 16 teeth, inner a membrane divided half way into 16 carinate
 segments with or without cilia; stems perennial, with
 innovations below the terminal flower; barren fl. gemmiform or
 naked.                                                             106.

 MNIUM (51). Caps. oblong pendulous; perist. as in _Bryum_;
 stems with innovations from the lower part; leaves large;
 barren fl. discoid; infl. dioicous or synoicous.                   121.

 CINCLIDIUM (52). Caps., leaves and stem as in _Mnium_, outer
 teeth 16 short, inner cupuliform.                                  124.


                        SECT. I. _b._ CLADOCARPI.

             Fruit terminal on very short lateral branches.

                        DIV. I. _Peristome none._

 SPHAGNUM (2). _vide ante p. 1._

                      DIV. II. _Peristome single._

 MIELICHHOFERIA (53). _vide ante p. 8._

 FISSIDENS (71) partly. _vide ante p. 10._

 CINCLIDOTUS (28) occasionally. _vide ante p. 12._


                         SECT. II. PLEUROCARPI.

                      Fructification truly lateral.

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A Synopsis of the British Mosses: Containing Descriptions of All the Genera and Species, (With Localities of the Rarer Ones) Found in Great Britain and Ireland, Based Upon Wilson's "Bryologia Britannica," Schimper's "Synopsis," Etc.

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