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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

Moist sandy banks, not common. X. XI.


75. D. GREVILLIANUM. B. & S. L. with a broad sheathing base, suddenly
lanceolate-subulate prolonged, wide-spreading and wavy, entire, nerve
broad; caps. ovate, sub-striate, strumose; lid with a beak longer than
capsule: monoicous.

“Glen Tilt, at foot of Ben-y-Gloe, 1823, not since found.”—Wils. VIII.
IX.

  [I have a specimen gathered by Dr. A. O. Black, marked “Esk-no-more.”]


76. D. SCHREBERI. Hedw. St. ½–1in. sub-cæspitose, branched sparingly; l.
base broad, suddenly lanceolate-subulate, spreading flexuose keeled,
denticulate at apex; caps. ovate-oblong, scarcely strumose, cernuous;
lid conical, shortly rostrate; dioicous.

Clayey or sandy soil near streams, rare. X. XI.

Lancashire, Cheshire, and near Glasgow.


77. D. SQUARROSUM. Schrad. St. 1–3in. dichotomous; l. lanceolate from a
broad sheathing base obtuse, undulate, entire concave recurved, nerve
narrow, reaching nearly to apex; caps. ovate-oblong cernuous; lid long
conical, with a short beak.

Wet mountainous places. VIII. IX.


78. D. CERVICULATUM. Hedw. St. ¼in. sparingly branched; l. spreading
flexuose, almost setaceous from a broadish amplexicaul base, entire,
nerved into the subula; caps. roundish ovate gibbous, strumose; lid with
a long oblique or curved subulate beak.

Sandy banks or on turf, frequent. VI. VII.

 var. β. _pusillum._ st. shorter, simple; l. smaller sub-erect; caps.
           smaller and less gibbous.


                   SECT. IV. L. secund or sub-secund.

79. D. VARIUM. Hedw. St. ¼in. cæspitose; l. lanceolate, entire keeled
sub-denticulate at apex, margin reflexed, nerve scarcely excurrent;
caps. inclined, ovate or oblong, slightly tumid; lid shortly beaked;
seta twisted to the right.

Moist banks. XI. XIII.

 var., β. _tenuifolium._ l. narrow, obscurely nerved.

      γ. _tenellum._ st. slender, scarcely branched; l. falcato-secund,
           distantly denticulate.

      δ. _callistomum._ l. scarcely secund, caps. erect, obovate
           truncated, lid almost as long as caps.


80. “D. FALLAX. Wils. MS. Closely resembles the last. L. more distant,
with impressed wings and less elongated setaceous points, and a more
dilated flattened nerve, uppermost sub-secund. Caps. nearly symmetric
erect or sub-cernuous, with a shorter conical lid: dioicous.” [Dr.
Braithwaite, Jour. Bot., VIII., 227.]

Banks. III. IV.

Anglesea (Wilson); Cotterall Wood (Hunt); Park Gate, Cheshire (Miss
Jelly).


81. D. RUFESCENS. Turn. St. short bright red, scarcely branched; l.
linear-lanceolate, obscurely toothed, reddish, margins plane, secund,
pellucid; caps. erect ovate or obovate, slightly tumid, with a conical
beaked lid. Seta twisted to the left; dioicous.

Moist sandy banks. X. XI.


82. D. SUBULATUM. Hedw. St. ½–1in. l. falcato-secund, setaceous from an
oblong-lanceolate base, entire; caps. ovate gibbous oblique striate when
dry, seta red; dioicous.

Moist shady sandy banks; common on the mortar of walls, &c. IX. X.

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