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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

A.  1 _S. cymbifolium_ Ehr.
                    B.  2 _S. tenellum_ Ehr.
                        3 _S. rubellum_ Wils.
                        4 _S. neglectum_ Angst.
                        5 _S. subsecundum_ N. von E.
                    C.  6 _S. molle_ Sulot.
                        7 _S. rigidum._ N. H. & S.
                    D.  8 _S. squarrosum_ Pers.
                        9 _S. teres_ Angst.
                       10 _S. acutifolium_ Ehr.
                       11 _S. strictum_ Lindb.
                       12 _S. fimbriatum_ Wils.
                       13 _S. Lindbergii_ Schp.
                       14 _S. intermedium_ Hoff.
                       15 _S. cuspidatum_ Ehr.]


            SECT. I. _Leaves obtuse roundish or elliptical._


          _a._ Utricles of branches lined with spiral fibres.

10. S. CYMBIFOLIUM. Ehr. St. 3–12 inches robust tufted solid, covered
with a cortical web. Stem l. lingulate-spathulate with a rounded apex;
br. l. imbricate broadly ovate concave cucullate and muriculate at apex;
caps. large globose on a short seta: dioicous.

Bogs, common. VI. VII.


                _b._ Branch cells without spiral fibres.

11. S. COMPACTUM. Brid. St. erect, 2–4in. dichotomous, densely
cæspitose; branches crowded short, almost erect, br. l. ovate-subulate,
obtuse, concave, slightly cucullate and smooth at apex, præmorse with
3–4 teeth; st. l. small elliptical: dioicous.

Wet moors. VII. VIII.


12. S. TENELLUM. Ehr. (_S. molluscum._ Bruch.) Stems rarely 2in.
slender, soft, fragile, branches similar; l. erecto-patent reflexed,
ovate-oblong, with a broadish border, very concave on the branches, pale
yellowish white; utricles of the branches between the leaves recurved at
points; caps. small orange-red, on a long pedicel: dioicous.

Wet hollows on peat bogs. V. VI.


13. S. RUBELLUM. Wils. St. 2–5in. slender loosely tufted with slender
deflexed sometimes curved branches; st. l. large ovate-oblong concave
obtuse sub-secund with a minutely toothed apex; br. l. ovate or
oblong-ovate, margins indexed, capsule almost included: dioicous.

Peat mosses, fr. rare. VI. VII.


       SECT. II. _Leaves acuminate, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate._


                       _a._ Leaves erecto-patent.

14. S. ACUTIFOLIUM. Ehr. St. 3–6in. with slender attenuated branches;
stem. l. small ovate acute erect; branch l. ovate-lanceolate slightly
præmorse with a 3–4 toothed apex, erecto-patent, often with a pinkish
tinge, sometimes almost white; pedicel long; monoicous.

Bogs and marshes. VI. VII.


15. S. FIMBRIATUM. Wils. St. slender 6–12in. loosely cæspitose, with
slender deflexed branches; st. l. obovate broad very obtuse, and fringed
at the summit; br. l. ovate-lanceolate acute erecto-patent, whitish,
never reddish; p. l. very large obtuse, cucullate; caps. on a short
pedicel, nearly enclosed in the per. leaves: monoicous.

Bogs and marshes. VI. VII.

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