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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

132. D. JENNERI. Schp. St. 1–1½in. cæspitose, brownish black below; br.
fastigiate; l. spreading cirrhate linear-lanceolate concave, keeled,
serrate, nerved to apex; areolæ minute rectangular transparent at base;
caps. oval-oblong, slightly drooping, lid with a short obtuse beak.

Ross-shire (Jenner and Howie). [Referred by Wilson, and others, to
_Cynodontium polycarpon_.]


                              2. Dioicous.


                       _a._ L. lanceolate, rigid.

133. D. LURIDUS. Hornsch. St. ¼–1in. cæspitose; l., lower
ovate-lanceolate, upper larger and broader, with entire recurved
margins, keeled, acute, nerved (reddish) almost or quite to apex, areolæ
small roundish; caps. symmetrical oblong on a shortish seta twisted to
the right; lid conical pointed; per. teeth small irregular.

Limestone walls, &c., rare. XII.


                       _b._ L. narrow, not rigid.

134. D. CYLINDRICUS. B. & S. ¼–1in.; l. spreading flexuose,
linear-lanceolate, margin undulate and minutely crenulate; areolæ small
opaque, gradually enlarged towards the base, there diaphanous; caps.
erect, narrow, cylindrical; lid long conico-rostrate, per. teeth
linear-lanceolate, fugacious.

Damp shady rocks. E. S. & I. X.


135. D. FLEXIFOLIUS. Hook. & Tayl. Barren stems long trailing, fertile
½in; l. spreading, flexuose, more so when dry, oblong or ligulate,
margin reflexed below, and serrate at apex, nerve not reaching apex;
areolæ round; caps. small cylindrical, somewhat curved, lid with a short
beak; per. teeth short.

High moorlands, Buxton, Alderley Edge, Ben Ledi. III. IV.

 var. _gemmescens._ Mitt. MS. Nerve excurrent into an apiculus, which
                     bears a cluster of egg-shaped or oblong gemmæ.

Old thatch, Amberley, Sussex (Mitten).


136. D. RECURVIFOLIUS. Tayl. “Stems elongate, loosely cæspitose; l.
squarrose, crisped and undulate when dry; elliptic-oblong or ligulate,
pale margined serrulate, nerve sub-excurrent; areolæ small dense opaque,
elongate and pellucid at base.” Ireland, 1842; fruit not known (Wilson).


                       26. TRICHOSTOMUM. BR. & S.


             SECT. I. L. lanceolate or ligulate: dioicous.

137. T. TOPHACEUM. Brid. St. ¼–1in. densely cæspitose, branches
fasciculate; l. lanceolate (the upper ones obtuse), concave keeled,
margins recurved; nerve not reaching to apex; caps. sub-cylindrical
erect, regular; lid with an oblique beak; per. teeth variable, sometimes
only 16, somewhat fugacious.

Moist places and rocks. XI.


138. T. BRACHYDONTIUM. Bruch. (_T. mutabile._ olim.) L. broader,
lanceolate or ligulate, crisped, not cucullate, margin slightly
undulate, nerve excurrent into a prominent mucro; caps. ovate-oblong
erect, regular; lid obliquely rostrate; per. teeth very short and
irregular.

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