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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

69. A. FULVELLA. B. & S. St. ½–2in. densely tufted; l. somewhat secund,
often falcate, subulate-setaceous dull green, sometimes slightly toothed
at apex, nerve predominant, per. l. large sheathing; caps. ovate,
sometimes gibbous, 8–furrowed, lid obliquely beaked; barren fl.
gemmiform: monoicous.

Fissures of alpine rocks. VII. VIII.


                      15. CYNODONTIUM. BRUCH. & S.

70. C. BRUNTONI. B. & S. St. ½–1in. tufted, branches fastigiate; l.
linear-lanceolate or lanc-subulate, keeled, sometimes minutely
denticulate at apex, margin reflexed, twisted when dry, nerved almost or
quite to apex; per. l. sheathing; caps. erect obovate or elliptical; lid
with a long oblique beak.

Sub-alpine rocks. VI.


                          16. DICRANUM. HEDW.


                       _a._ (DICRANELLA. Schimp.)


  SECT. I. Stem long, rooting in all parts; leaves spreading flexuose,
papillose on both sides, crenulate in margin, not nerved to apex; infl.
               monoicous; beak of lid shorter than caps.

71. D. POLYCARPUM. Ehr. L. bent, flexuose, often recurved,
lanceolate-subulate or linear-lanceolate, keeled, margin recurved,
somewhat papillose, denticulate at apex, nerve excurrent; caps. erect,
symmetrical, striated, with a tumid neck.

Alpine rocks. VII. VIII.

 var. β. _strumiferum._ caps. unequal, base strumose.


SECT. II. St. rooting in all parts, leafy; l. spreading, nerve slightly
              excurrent; infl. monoicous; caps. strumose.

72. D. VIRENS. Hedw. St. 1–3in. branched; l. erect ovate-lanceolate at
base, sheathing, running to a long sub-denticulate, almost setaceous
prolongation, margins recurved, nerve thick sub-excurrent; caps.
cernuous strumose smooth oblong and curved; lid beaked.

Moist alpine rocks; Ben Lawers. VI. VII.

 var. β. _Wahlenbergii._ l. flexuose, much attenuated, above narrower
           and longer, yellowish; caps. short, with a very prominent
           struma.

      γ. _serratum._ stems taller; l. recurved from a sheathing base,
           coarsely serrated.

      δ. _compactum._ st. shorter and slender; l. shorter lanceolate
           from an ovate base, entire, or very slightly toothed at apex;
           caps. gibbous on a shorter pedicel.

      ε. _gracilescens._ l. narrower; caps. smaller.


             SECT. III. L. squarrose, or patent spreading.

73. D. PELLUCIDUM. Hedw. St. 1–2in. loosely tufted; l. distant,
lanceolate, margins undulate, denticulate, papillose obtuse; caps.
shortly ovate; lid conical rostrate; dioicous.

Wet stones in streams. X. XI.

 var. β. fagimontanum. st. short, branches slender, l. shorter.

      γ. serratum. l. crenato-serrate, with a more acute point; caps.
           oval or oblong, lid with a slender beak.

74. D. CRISPUM. Hedw. St. ¼in. gregarious, l. subulate from a broadish
sheathing base setaceous above, long, spreading flexuose, minutely
dentate, nerved to apex; caps. almost erect, oval or obovate, striate;
lid with a long oblique subulate beak: monoicous.

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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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