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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

LESKEA (82). Perist. outer of 16 narrow barred teeth, inner
 without (rarely with) intermediate cilia, leaves mostly ovate,
 nerved or nerveless, entire, spreading every way.                  143.

 CLIMACIUM (80). Caps. oblong, erect; lid adhering to the
 persistent columella; outer teeth linear-lanceolate, confluent
 at base, trabeculate, with a medial line; inner alternate and
 longer than outer, lacunose without cilia, the two segments of
 each process united only at apex; stem dendroid, erect.            142.

 ISOTHECIUM (79). Caps. oval, sub-erect, symmetrical; lid not
 adhering to columella; outer teeth 16 barred, with a medial
 line; inner with intermediate cilia, two or three together;
 stem dendroid drooping; branches fasciculate or pinnate.           142.

                      * * Caps. unequal, cernuous.

 HYPNUM (83). Caps. cernuous, sometimes nearly erect, rarely
 pendulous, ovate or oblong, more or less curved, and sometimes
 slightly apophysate; outer teeth 16 equidistant lanceolate
 acuminate, barred, inner alternating, often perforate, with
 intermediate cilia, one, two or three together.                    145.

                 _c._ Inner perist. a reticulated cone.

 DICHELYMA (90). Peristome like _Fontinalis_; caps. scarcely
 exserted; calyptra long twisted; leaves nerved.                    185.


                     DIV. II. _Calyptra mitriform._

 HOOKERIA (86). Caps. ovate or elliptical, cernuous, lid with a
 straight beak; perist. as in _Leskia_; calyptra not fringed at
 base; leaves complanate, loosely reticulated.                      184.

 DALTONIA (87). Caps. erect oval-oblong, obscurely apophysate;
 calyptra fringed at base; leaves spreading every way; inner
 perist. divided nearly to base.                                    184.

 CRYPHÆA (88). Caps. oval-oblong or roundish, sub-sessile,
 immersed; calyptra conical small, not fringed; peristome as in
 _Neckera_.                                                         184.

 FONTINALIS (89). Caps. ovate or oval, immersed, sub-sessile;
 calyptra conical, crenate or slightly lacerate at base, small;
 outer teeth 16 linear-lanceolate, very long, cohering at apex
 in pairs, barred, twisted; inner a plicate cone, with 16
 angles, consisting of filiform cilia, united by crossbars.         185.




                 DIVISION I. ACROCARPI. (Genera 1–72.)


                            1. ANDREÆA. Ehr.


                          _a._ _L. nerveless._

1. A. PETROPHILA. Ehr. (_A. rupestris_ Hedw.) St. ¼ inch loosely tufted,
with fastigiate branches; l. erect imbricate, with a sheathing base,
generally secund, ovate or ovate-subulate, tapering above, and rather
obtuse; papillose, areolæ dotted; per. l. larger; all reddish brown.

Sub-alpine rocks, frequent. V. VI.

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