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
110. C. SETIFOLIUS. Wils. Tufts lax soft, bright or yellowish green
above, blackish below, without radicles. St. 5–10in. slender, erect,
geniculate. L. distant erecto-patent or sub-secund, glossy, from a
lanceolate base gradually running into a very long subula, sometimes
half twisted; uppermost with wings serrate. Nerve half width of base;
auricles very large and inflated, the cells partly fuscous, partly
hyaline, hexagonal, above hexagono-rectangular, upper rhombic
chlorophyllose; fl. of each sex collected in capitula; males 3–4, fem.
numerous.
Wet places, and clefts of rocks. I. S.
111. C. SWARTZII. Schpr. Tufts dense soft yellowish green, brownish
below, without radicles. St. 2–3in. slender; l. erecto-patent, straight
or slightly secund, lowest lanceolate, upper lanceolate-subulate, entire
at apex, base somewhat sheathing, auricles hyaline inflated decurrent.
Nerve two-thirds of base, finely sulcate at back towards apex. Basal
areolæ narrow, auricular very lax hexagono-rectangular hyaline, above
sub-quadrate.
Granite alpine rocks. Wales, Scotland.
* * L. not auricled.
§ St. radiculose.
112. C. FRAGILIS. B. & S. Tufts pale green glossy, st. ½–2in. fragile.
L. densely crowded erecto-patent rigid incumbent when dry, lower
lanceolate, upper extended into a subula, toothed at apex, wings
recurved above. Nerve very broad. Basal areolæ lax pellucid narrow
rectangular, above minute quadrate, no distinct alar cells. Caps.
solitary, bent down, oval, symmetric, fuscous, when dry plicate,
contracted below the mouth, lid conico-subulate oblique, red; calyp.
whitish, rufous at apex.
Sandstone rocks and moist heaths.
var. β. _densus._ (B. & S.) st. taller, l. shorter, with more acute
entire points and laxer cells.
113. C. SCHIMPERI. Milde. Tufts dense compact. St. 1–2in. slender light
silky green above, fuscous below. L. erecto-patent, appressed when dry,
straight rigid, lanceolate-subulate, channelled, denticulate only at
apex. Nerve very broad. Basal cells lax rectangular hyaline, very narrow
at margin, above elliptic.
Alpine hills. Scotland.
114. C. PYRIFORMIS. Brid. (_C. turfaceus._ B. & S.) Tufts flat
olivaceous or bright green, finally tawny. St. ½–1in. slender erect,
radiculose only at base. L. less crowded, gradually larger upwards,
erecto-patent, lower lanceolate, middle lanceolate-subulate, upper from
a lanceolate base setaceous. Nerve one-third base, thin channelled at
back. Areolæ resembling _C. flexuosus_, but thinner, hyaline at base Fr.
several from same apex; caps. ovate olivaceous, fulvous when ripe,
sulcate, lid obliquely rostrate; calyp. whitish, tip brown.
Moist heaths and sides of ditches.
var. β. _Mulleri._ Juratzka. L. caducous, calyptra without fringe.
§ § St. very short, not radiculose.
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