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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. — John Shaqi

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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

2. A. ALPESTRIS. Schimp. St. taller, densely tufted, with slender
branches; l. crowded, very small, patent on all sides when moist, ovate,
or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, areolæ quadrate at margin; per. l. shorter
and more obtuse.

Damp alpine rocks. Glen Callater; Perthshire.


3. A. OBOVATA. Thed. “Densely tufted, blackish brown, tall and robust;
l. somewhat like those of _alpina_, from an imbricate base
ovate-panduriform, gradually lanceolate, nearly smooth, glossy, quite
entire at margin, areolæ much laxer.” Dr. Braithwaite, Jour, of Bot.,
VIII. p. 95.

Glen Callater.


4. A. ALPINA. Turner. St. tall 1–3in. densely tufted, with long
fastigiate branches; l. imbricate, spreading, reddish or purplish brown,
obovate, almost panduriform concave; per. l. larger elliptic sheathing,
acute, areolæ dot-like.

Alpine rocks. V. VI.


                           _b._ _L. nerved._

5. A. RUPESTRIS. Turn. (_A. Rothii_ W. & M.) St. scarcely ½ inch,
loosely tufted; l. imbricate, falcato-secund, longly subulate from an
ovate base, thickly nerved to apex, rigid almost black; per. l. larger
convolute.

Alpine and sub-alpine rocks. V. VI.


6. A. GRIMSULANA. Bruch. Much more robust than the last, rufous black;
l. lanceolate acute broader, more solid, falcato-secund; per. l. broadly
ovate not acuminate.

Brandsley Falls, Yorkshire, J. G. Baker 1858. Herb. Kew.—Ingleborough.


7. A. CRASSINERVIA. Bruch. Tufts depressed deep black, st. prostrate
ascending, fragile; l. shining falcato-secund, subulate from an oblong
base; nerve thick excurrent into the round papillose _subula_, margin
entire, cells quadrate; per. l. erecto-patent convolute nerveless.

Alpine rocks; Hebden Bridge 1865; Scotland; Snowdon 1853.


8. A. FALCATA. Schimp. Smaller than last, very fragile black; l.
falcato-secund, opaque, from a dilated obovate base abruptly
lanceolate-subulate, nerve flattened, ending at or below the apex, which
is erose at margin.

Snowdon 1865 and Cader Idris (Schimper); Perthshire (McKinlay).


9. A. NIVALIS. Hooker. St. longer tufted slender, l. reddish brown,
falcato-secund, lanceolate-subulate, acute, gradually tapering and
nerved to apex.

Alpine rocks at limit of perpetual snow; Ben Nevis, &c. Summer.


                           2. SPHAGNUM. Dill.

  [Dr. Braithwaite is at present publishing in the “Monthly
        Microscopical Journal” a Monograph of this genus, but as he has
        only got some three or four species described, I regret that I
        cannot avail myself of his valuable researches, and can only
        publish such species as are known to me. His division of species
        is as follows:—

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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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