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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

ε. _elatum._ innovations overtopping fruit, caps. roundish small,
           lid sub-rostrate.


        _b._ Caps. scarcely contracted; sporangium not adherent.

47. G. TORTILE. Schw. St. ⅛–¼in. densely tufted with fastigiate
branches; l. oblong-lanceolate, spreading or sub-erect curved, obtuse,
pointed with the excurrent nerve; caps. elliptical, with a purple mouth
and an inclined beaked lid.

Limestone rocks. Spring.

 var. β. _subcylindricum._ l. linear-lanceolate, caps. oblong.


                           6. WEISSIA. HEDW.


                            _a._ Monoicous.

48. W. CONTROVERSA. Hedw. St. ⅛–¼in. branched; l. lower lanceolate,
upper linear-lanceolate, margin incurved, with a slightly excurrent
nerve; caps. oval, erect, lid conical, beak half-length of capsule;
barren fl. gemmiform.

Frequent. Spring.

 var. β. _stenocarpa._ caps. sub-cylindrical narrow.

      γ. _densifolia._ densely tufted; l. crowded narrower.

      δ. _amblyodon._ teeth of peristome variable, short and truncate,
           acute or cleft at apex., yellowish.

      ε. _gymnostomoides._ teeth of peristome almost wanting.


49. W. MUCRONATA. B. & S. Smaller than last; l. linear-lanceolate, with
plane margins, the nerve slightly excurrent and forming a mucro; caps.
oblong, scarcely striated; teeth of per. short truncate, perforated, lid
with a longish beak; barren fl. gemmiform.

Fallow (clay) ground. III. IV.


50. W. CIRRHATA. Hedw. St. ½–1in. loosely tufted; l. linear-lanceolate,
spreading entire concave, keeled, margin reflexed, not nerved to apex;
per. l. slightly sheathing, shorter; caps. oval-oblong; lid with a long
beak; monoicous.

Posts and rocks in mountainous districts.


51. W. CRISPULA. Hedw. St. shorter than last, branched; l. spreading,
frequently falcato-secund, lanceolate-subulate, base wide, concave;
margins plane, not nerved to apex; caps. oval or oblong without annulus;
lid beaked. Barren fl. gemmiform.

Mountainous rocks. VI. VII.


                  SECT. II. Infl. dioicous; terminal.

52. W. VERTICILLATA. Brid. St. ¼–¾in., branches fastigiate; l.
linear-lanceolate, rigid, denticulate at base, sub-erect, margin plane,
with a strong slightly excurrent nerve; teeth of per. incurved, not
barred, sometimes perforated; caps. erect, reddish; lid beaked.

Dripping limestone rocks. VI. VII.


53. W. CALCAREA. Müll. St. short, simple; densely tufted, radiculose at
base; l. lower small ferruginous, erecto-patent, narrowly lanceolate;
upper larger deep green lineal-lanceolate, rather obtuse concave,
stoutly nerved nearly to apex, margin minutely crenulate; per. l.
lanceolate concave acute; caps. oblong sub-cylindric short-necked erect,
on a pale yellow seta, lid conical subulate.

 var.  δ. _brevifolium._ Schpr. Slender branched; l. lower very minute
           distant, upper crowded ovate-lanceolate, recurved above;
           caps. oval.

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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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