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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

94. D. SCOPARIUM. Hedw. St. 2–4in. loosely tufted dichotomous; l. secund
or falcato-secund, carinato-concave, margins inflexed, serrate at apex;
nerve with about four prominent ridges at back, serrate at apex; per. l.
larger convolute; caps. cylindrical, slightly curved; lid with a long
beak.

Shady banks and rocks, common. VII. VIII.

 var. β. _orthophyllum._ stem erect; l. erecto-patent or sub-secund
           straight.

      γ. _curvatum._ branches curved ascending, l. more falcate; caps.
           shorter.


95. D. MAJUS. Turn. St. 4–6in. loosely cæspitose; l. falcato-secund;
concave dentato-serrate at apex; caps. horizontally cernuous, curved,
furrowed when dry; lid and calyptra very long; fruit-stalks pale
aggregate.

Shady banks, &c., in woods. VII. VIII.


   SECT. IV. UNDULATA. St. very tall, with radicular fibres; l. large
glossy, spreading every way or secund, lanceolate below, linear-subulate
              above; nerve flattish, with lamellæ at back.

96. D. PALUSTRE. Brid. St. 3–4in. erect branched sub-fastigiate; l.
spreading, sub-secund, linear-lanceolate undulated, terminal ones
crowded into a cuspidate cluster on the barren shoots; serrate at apex;
nerve thin and narrow, not reaching to apex, and without ridges; caps.
sub-erect, slightly curved, sub-cylindrical, striate.

Marshy places and moist banks. IX.

 var. β. _juniperifolium._ with shorter, wider, and more rigid leaves.

      γ. _polycladum._ branches slender flagelliform; l. small
           imbricate.


97. D. SCHRADERI. Schwaeg. St. 3–6in.; l. sub-secund, rather obtuse,
carinato-concave, subrugose, toothed on margin and keel, sub-papillose
at back near apex; caps. oval-oblong incurved; lid rostrate.

Turfy bogs, rare. IX.

98. D. SPURIUM. Hedw. St. 1–2in. loosely cæspitose; l. ovate-lanceolate,
acuminate, undulate serrate, papillose at back; not nerved to apex;
caps. sub-cylindrical arcuate, slightly strumose, striate; lid with a
long curved beak.

Moors and bogs. VI.


                         17. LEUCOBRYUM. HAMPE.

99. L. GLAUCUM. Hampe. St. 1–6in. or more, dichotomous fragile,
fastigiate; l. subulate from an ovate-lanceolate base, erect, rather
obtuse, and apiculate; caps, cernuous, strumose, furrowed when dry.

Moist heaths, woods, rare in fr.


                          18. CERATODON. BRID.

100. C. PURPUREUS. Brid, St. ¼–2in. cæspitose, branched; l.
oblong-lanceolate, margin recurved, nerve excurrent; caps.
elliptic-oblong, irregular, purple, angular when dry on a purplish red
seta; lid conical.

Banks, &c., common. IV. V.


101. C. CYLINDRICUS. B. & S. St. ¼in. gregarious; l. subulate from a
dilated ovate amplexicaul base, flexuose, minutely toothed above, nerve
predominant; caps. cylindrical, smooth, erect or slightly curved, on a
pale slender seta; lid conical.

Sandy banks, not common. IV. V.


                      19. DICRANODONTIUM. BR. & S.

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