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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

83. D. CURVATUM. Hedw. Cæspitose; st. bi-tripartite; l. setaceous from a
shortly ovate semi-sheathing base, channelled, apex denticulate,
falcato-setaceous; caps. erect or sub-erect, ovate-oblong, slightly
gibbous, distinctly striate. [Sch. Syn. p. 75. Bry. Eur. vol. I.]

Walls. Autumn and Spring.

Llanberis, N. Wales (W. Wilson).


84. D. HETEROMALLUM. Hedw. St. ½–1in. simple or branched, in silky
tufts; l. lanceolate-setaceous, slightly dentate at apex; caps. obovate
gibbous, obliquely plicate when dry; lid with a long beak, seta pale
yellowish; dioicous.

Moist banks and walls. XI. XII.

 var.  β. _strictum._ l. erecto-patent, straight, not secund; seta longer
           flexuose.

      γ. _interruptum._ larger; stem interrupted leafy; l. spreading or
           secund.

      δ. _sericeum._ Schp. plants taller; l. diverging almost on all
           sides, pale green or yellowish, often strongly and remotely
           toothed. Soccoth Hill, Arrochar (McKinlay).


                          _b._ (EU-DICRANUM.)


   SECT. I. FALCATÆ. Densely tufted, st. dichotomous and fastigiate,
         decumbent at base with few or no radicular fibres; l.
lanceolate-subulate, secund or falcato-secund, nerve predominant above;
   caps. cernuous, neck strumose or ventricose, lid with a long beak:
                               monoicous.

85. D. STARKII. Web. & M. St. 1–3in. branched; l. subulate-setaceous
from a lanceolate base, falcato-secund, entire, nerve strongly
predominant, caps. oblong arcuate, gibbous, strumose, striate,
sub-cernuous.

Alpine rocks. VIII.

 var.  β. _molle._ taller; l. wider lanceolate, purplish brown; nerve not
           predominant.

Summit of Ben Nevis.


86. D. FALCATUM. Hedw. St. shorter, dichotomously branched and
fastigiate; l. strongly falcato-secund, from a lanceolate base
subulato-setaceous, denticulate at apex, nerve predominant, caps.
shortly obovate, strumose, almost smooth when dry; lid large beaked.

Alpine rocks. VIII. IX.


87. D. BLYTTII. Br. & S. St. branched fastigiate; l. flexuoso-patent, or
sub-secund, from an erect base lanceolate-subulate, soft, entire, nerve
predominant, per. l. sheathing; caps. sub-cernuous, ovate, incurved,
without striæ, strumose, lid rostrate; per. teeth narrow inflexed when
dry.

Alpine and sub-alpine rocks. VIII.


  SECT. II. ORTHOCARPA. Densely cæspitose; st. 1 or more inches high,
       dichotomous, with or without radicular fibres; l. secund,
lanceolate-subulate, smooth glossy, nerve excurrent or nerveless. Caps.
     erect cylindrical; neck long symmetrical; lid conical at base.

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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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