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.
Hobkirk, Charles C. P. (Charles Codrington Pressick)
Mosses -- Great Britain
88. D. GLACIALE. Berg. Monoicous, in wide tufts, without radicular
tomentum, erect, 2–5in. high, l. erecto-patent, straight glossy, lowest
minute lanceolate nerveless, upper oblong at base, lanceolate-subulate,
deeply concave, margin inflexed entire, basal angles auricled, orange,
nerve narrow compressed; per. l. sheathing, suddenly narrowed into a
long subula; caps. cernuous, cylindraceous, more or less incurved
strumose, not striate; lid rostrate.
Alpine rocks; Ben Nevis, Clova, Ben-y-Gloe.
[Dr. Braithwaite, Jour. Bot. VIII., 228.]
89. D. VIRIDE. Sull. et Lesq. Dioicous, in dense cushions, or cæspitose,
reddish and tomentose at base, above dark green; branches dichotomous;
l. lineal-lanceolate subulate, nerve running out in the concave awl;
per. l. sheathing; areolæ densely chlorophyllose, enlarged at base;
caps. erect, oblong, slightly incurved, lid with a long beak.
Trunks of trees: rarely on sandstone rocks.
fig. Schpr. Musci. Eur. novi, &c. fasc. III. IV.
Staffordshire (Mr. Bloxam).
90. D. SCOTTIANUM. Turn. St. 2 or 3in. robust; l. erecto-patent,
sub-secund incurved lanceolate-subulate, slightly twisted at apex when
dry, concave entire, nerve strong excurrent; caps. elongated, slightly
curved, tapering at base, lid obliquely rostrate.
Rocks in mountainous districts. VII. VIII.
91. D. LONGIFOLIUM. Hedw. Cæspitose, tufts pale green or whitish; stem
arcuate or geniculate ascending, slightly radiculose; l. long
falcato-secund, rarely spreading, subulate from a lanceolate base, with
a slender nerve, margin and back serrate at apex; per. l. convolute
sheathing; caps. elongate cylindrical, upright or sub-incurved, without
striæ, brown; beak subulate, annulus narrow: dioicous.
Sub-alpine rocks. Autumn.
Ben Lawers, 1866 (Dr. Stirton).
92. D. CIRCINNATUM. Wils. Dioicous, in loose irregular light green
tufts; st. 3–6in. dichotomous, geniculate or ascending, with radicles
from base of leaves. L. very long, secund, arcuate from an oblong
sheathing base decurrent at angles, longly subulate concave; nerve
flattened, covering one-fifth of base and all the subula, which is
denticulate; base laxly areolate in middle, with narrower cells at
margin. [Dr. Braithwaite, l. c. 230.]
Fr. unknown.
Ben Voirlich, Clova, Ben Nevis, Lennox Castle.
SECT. III. SCOPARIÆ. St. loosely or densely matted, tall, with
proliferous radicular fibres; l. long spreading or secund,
lanceolate-subulate, glossy, denticulate at apex; nerve with or without
dorsal lamellæ; caps. cernuous bent; lid with a long beak.
93. D. FUSCESCENS. Turn. St. 2–3m. loosely tufted; l. spreading,
sub-secund, flexuose, canaliculate, minutely toothed at apex, nerve
excurrent; caps. oblong incurved, furrowed when dry; lid with a very
long beak.
Alpine and sub-alpine rocks. VIII.
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