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
γ. _apiculata._ l. spreading recurved, mucro long.
δ. _microcarpa._ caps. small oval or oval-oblong.
ε. _obtusifolia._ more robust, l. shorter, broader obtuse, mucro
almost or altogether absent; caps. sub-cylindrical.
ζ. _fastigiata._ with long fastigiate innovations; l. larger,
slightly undulate.
160. T. CONVOLUTA. Hedw. Cæspitose; l. spreading oblong-lanceolate,
plane or somewhat undulate in margin, nerve not excurrent; per. l.
strongly convolute, sheathing; caps. inclined oblong-ovate, on a
yellowish seta; lid with a long oblique beak: dioicous.
Walls, &c. V. VI.
161. T. REVOLUTA. Schwaeg. Densely cæspitose, l. crowded erecto-patent
oblong-lanceolate, nerve excurrent from the blunt apex, margin strongly
revolute; caps. reddish brown oval-oblong, with a scarcely oblique lid;
seta red: dioicous.
Walls, mostly limestone. V.
162. T. HORNSCHUCHIANA. Schultz. Loosely cæspitose, l. crowded,
spreading, ovate-lanceolate, gradually tapering to an acute point,
formed by slightly excurrent nerve, margins slightly revolute; caps.
oblong slightly curved, annulus narrow: dioicous.
Rocks, walls, and banks, not common. IV. V.
163. T. VINEALIS. Brid. St. more tufted than in _T. fallax_; l. strictly
patent with a stouter nerve, which is obscure towards the acute apex;
the latter usually tipped with a pointed hyaline cell; appressed when
dry, not crisped or contorted; caps. sub-cylindrical: dioicous. (W.
Mitten, in Jour. Bot. v. 324.)
Walls. IV. V.
164. T. INSULANA. De Not. (_T. vinealis_ β. _flaccida_. Bryol. Brit.
124.) St. loosely cæspitose; l. linear-subulate from a lanceolate
appressed base, recurved or hooked, obliquely patent, acute, margin
recurved below, above plane, nerve excurrent; contorted when dry; caps.
oblong erect; lid conical attenuate, somewhat obtuse, half as long as
capsule: rare in fruit. (loc. cit. 328.)
England and Ireland.
* [T. GRACILIS. Schw. Stem cæspitose, branches fastigiate; “l.
erecto-patent, imbricated when dry, carinato-concave, margin recurved,
nerve excurrent; per. l. larger, sheathing subulate, and flexuose at
apex; caps. ovate-oblong or ovate; perist. scarcely contorted, with a
broadish basilar membrane.”—Wils. Bryol. Brit. p. 123. Inserted from
Wilson, but has not yet been certainly found in Britain.]
Spring.
165. T. RIGIDULA. Hedw. (_Trichost. rigidulum_, var. β. _densum_. Bryol.
Brit. 114.) l. lanceolate carinate, rigid, bristly, not appressed and
imbricate, when dry slightly curved and loosely contorted; nerve stout
continued into a thick obscure point, not really excurrent; fruit
similar to No. 164. (loc. cit. 327.)
Scotland, York, Sussex, and Cornwall.
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