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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

DIV. I. _Calyptra dimidiate._

                      SUB-DIV. I. _Peristome none._

 ANŒCTANGIUM (72). Caps. oval or obovate, erect, with a short
 slightly inflated neck; lid conico-convex with a long slender
 oblique beak; stems erect, cæspitose.                              139.

               SUB-DIV. II. _Perist. single, of 16 teeth._

 HABRODON (77). Caps. oval-oblong erect, calyptra large, lid
 conical; st. sub-erect, l. spreading, nerveless, soft and
 opaque; per. teeth simple, linear, inserted below mouth of
 caps., remotely articulate: dioicous.                              141.

                SUB-DIV. III. _Peristome almost single._

            _a._ _inner peristome very short and indistinct._

 LEUCODON (73). Caps. oval erect, on a short pedicel; calyptra
 large; outer teeth 16 bifid or perforate, not hygroscopic;
 surculi erect simple; leaves plicato-striate, nerveless.           139.

 PTEROGONIUM (78). Caps. oblong erect, on a long seta; calyptra
 small; outer teeth 16 simple, hygroscopic; surculi dendroid,
 with fasciculate curved branches; leaves not striate.              141.

 LEPTODON (75). Caps. oval on a very short seta; calyptra and
 vaginula hairy; teeth 16 linear-lanceolate, entire or fissile,
 not hygroscopic; surculi pinnate; branches curled when dry;
 leaves very obtuse.                                                140.

                    SUB-DIV. IV. _Peristome double._

                    _a._ _Inner perist. of 16 cilia._

 ANTITRICHIA (74). Caps, oval, regular, on a short curved seta;
 calyptra rather large smooth; inner peristome of 16 filiform
 processes; outer 16 tapering teeth with a medial line; surculi
 procumbent, pinnate.                                               140.

 ANOMODON (76). Caps. oval-oblong erect, on a long seta; lid
 obliquely rostrate; calyptra small; perist. as in last: stems
 erect with erect branches, cæspitose; leaves of close texture
 acuminate, nerved.                                                 140.

 CYLINDROTHECIUM (81). Caps. cylindrical, regular, erect; outer
 teeth 16 inserted below mouth of capsule; inner of 16 narrow
 carinate processes; lid shortly rostellate; stem procumbent
 pinnate; leaves ovate concave, faintly two-nerved at base.         142.

 NECKERA (85). Caps. oval-oblong, immersed or pedicillate; lid
 obliquely rostrate, outer teeth 16 linear-subulate, long,
 connivent into a cone; inner as above; stems pinnate; leaves
 complanate. St. sub-erect from a creeping rhizome.                 182.

   _b._ _Inner peristome a membrane divided half way into 16 carinate
                    segments with or without cilia._

                * Caps. symmetrical, erect or sub-erect.

 OMALIA (84). Leaves complanate smooth, falciform, obtuse,
 serrulate at apex, not undulate (allied to _Neckera_).

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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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