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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

62. S. PAUCIFOLIA. Carruthers. (_S. subcernua_, Schp.; _S. calcicola_,
Mitt.) Densely gregarious, low; leaves crowded erecto-patent, lower ones
lanceolate, upper subulate from a narrow oblong base, margins plane,
nerve exserted, areolæ dense, rectangular; caps. elliptical sub-cernuous
on a long seta, unsymmetrical, lid with a long beak; male fl. at base of
female plant.

Limestone rocks and stones. VI.

Chalk Downs, Sussex, Mr. Mitten; Near Wetherby, 1801, Dickson.


[63. S. ACUTIFOLIA. Lind. Very small; l. and per. l. from a more or less
sheathing base abruptly narrowed into a subterete setiform acute pointed
awl, formed by the excurrent nerve, crenulate; seta 1 mm. long; caps.
small, scarcely exserted, pyriform with a short neck, lid with a short
scarcely oblique beak];—type not British but

 var.  β. _longiseta_, Lindb. Plant larger, seta 2–3 mm. long, caps.
           exserted, beak of lid longer and more oblique—gathered by Mr.
           Wilson, 14th May, 1831, and sent by him to Dr. Lindberg.


64. S. CALCAREA. B. & S. St. short, more robust, than No. 60, l.
ovate-subulate, obtuse, dull green with a thicker nerve; caps.
turbinate, shortly beaked, on a short stiff pedicel; peris. teeth,
broader obtuse, closely barred.

Chalk cliffs. IV. V.


65. S. RECURVATA. B. & S. St. minute gregarious; l. lanceolate-subulate,
somewhat flexuose, acute, nerve excurrent generally; caps. obovate
elliptical; pedicel curved drooping.

Sandstone rocks, rare. IV. V.


                        11. ANODUS. BRUCH. & S.

66. A. DONIANUS. B. & S. St. minute, ⅛in. gregarious; l. almost
setaceous, lanceolate-subulate, very minutely toothed; per. l. bluntish
and rather shorter; caps. cup-shaped or turbinate, mouth wide; Cal.
dimidiate; perist. none, lid with a short beak.

Sandstone rocks, rare. IX.


                        12. STYLOSTEGIUM. WILS.

67. S. CÆSPITICIUM. B. & S. St. ¼–½in. densely tufted; branches
fastigiate; l. somewhat falcate and secund, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate;
per. l. larger with a sheathing base entire, nerve predominant; caps.
roundish-pyriform glossy; lid obliquely beaked, adherent to columella.

Alpine rocks, in crevices. VII.


                           13. BLINDIA. WILS.

68. B. ACUTA. B. & S. St. ½–3in. tufted; l. subulate or
lanceolate-setaceous, rigid, glossy, sub-secund, nerve thick; per. l.
sheathing; caps. roundish-pyriform, on a short reddish pedicel; lid with
a longish beak.

Moist alpine or sub-alpine rocks. Summer.

 var. β. _breviseta._ “Stem shorter, caps. on a very short pedicel.”
           Wils.

      γ. _rupincola._ pedicels arcuate.

      δ. _trichodes._ Braithwaite. l. longer and more falcate. Wet
           rocks, near Bolton.—Whitehead.


                        14. ARCTOA. BRUCH. & S.

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