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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

180. T. NITIDA. Lindb. 1864. (_Trichost. diffractum_, Mitt. 1868.)
Dioicous, densely pulvinate: stem rigid branched; l. crowded
erecto-patent, arcuate when dry, more or less elongate, oblong, obtuse,
channelled, margin plane slightly undulate, nerve terete prominent on
back, excurrent; areolation minute, loose and cuneiform at base; fr. not
known. (l. c. IX., 294.)

Clifton, Torquay, Plymouth.


181. T. SINUOSA. Mitt. Jour. of Bot. V., 327. (_Dicranella_, Wils. MS.;
_Trichostomum_, Lindb.) Densely cæspitose, fuscous below, l. long
linear-lanceolate or subulate patent from a very short pellucid base,
margin slightly recurved below, above denticulate, nerve continued into
a thick obscure blunt point, often broken off; basilar cells all oblong
and rectangular; fr. not known.

Shady places at roots of trees, Sussex, Cornwall, Bangor.


182. T. FRAGILIS. Wils. (_Trichostomum_, Müll. Syn.) Stem erect simple
or dichotomously branched, radiculose tomentose at base; l. crowded
lanceolate-subulate, nerve excurrent, margins plane; areolæ minute,
large and hyaline at base; caps. erect, ovate-oblong, regular or
slightly incurved; lid conical with a long oblique beak; fruit rare. (l.
c. IX., 294.)

Clefts of rocks and on the ground. Ben Lawers.

                                                                 Summer.

183. T. SQUARROSA. De Not. St. 1in. cæspitose; l. squarrose, lanceolate,
recurved, with a broad sheathing base, margin undulate, with large
diaphanous cells, somewhat serrulate at apex; nerve scarcely excurrent;
capsule sub-cylindrical, narrow, slightly curved; lid conical, half as
long as capsule; seta 1in. long: dioicous.

Chalk. Ireland and S. of England; fr. not known in this country.


                        28. CINCLIDOTUS. B. & S.

[C. RIPARIUS. Walker Arnott. Acrocarpous; branches fasciculate; “l.
spreading oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, with thickened margins, very
shortly mucronate, nerve excurrent; caps. exserted on a short thick
pedicel, elliptic-oblong; lid obliquely conico-rostrate; perist. with
numerous subdivisions.”] Bry. Brit. 138.

Not found in Britain, but IV.

 var. β. _terrestris_ has been frequently found, and is now referred to
           _Tortula mucronata_, to which refer.


184. C. FONTINALOIDES. P. Beauv. Cladocarpous; st. 2–5in., in long
straggling tufts, generally floating; l. crowded, spreading, flexuose,
lanceolate, acute, with a thickened margin and strong excurrent nerve;
per. l. larger sheathing ovate-lanceolate, thinner; cap. immersed, with
a conical beaked lid; calyp. persistent, thick, split on one side.

Stones in rivulets, &c. III. IV.


                         29. ENCALYPTA. Schreb.


                            _a._ Monoicous.


                         1. Peristome wanting.

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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

180. T. NITIDA. Lindb. 1864. (_Trichost. diffractum_, Mitt. 1868.)
Dioicous, densely pulvinate: stem rigid branched; l. crowded
erecto-patent, arcuate when dry, more or less elongate, oblong, obtuse,
channelled, margin plane slightly undulate, nerve terete prominent on
back, excurrent; areolation minute, loose and cuneiform at base; fr. not
known. (l. c. IX., 294.)

Clifton, Torquay, Plymouth.


181. T. SINUOSA. Mitt. Jour. of Bot. V., 327. (_Dicranella_, Wils. MS.;
_Trichostomum_, Lindb.) Densely cæspitose, fuscous below, l. long
linear-lanceolate or subulate patent from a very short pellucid base,
margin slightly recurved below, above denticulate, nerve continued into
a thick obscure blunt point, often broken off; basilar cells all oblong
and rectangular; fr. not known.

Shady places at roots of trees, Sussex, Cornwall, Bangor.


182. T. FRAGILIS. Wils. (_Trichostomum_, Müll. Syn.) Stem erect simple
or dichotomously branched, radiculose tomentose at base; l. crowded
lanceolate-subulate, nerve excurrent, margins plane; areolæ minute,
large and hyaline at base; caps. erect, ovate-oblong, regular or
slightly incurved; lid conical with a long oblique beak; fruit rare. (l.
c. IX., 294.)

Clefts of rocks and on the ground. Ben Lawers.

                                                                 Summer.

183. T. SQUARROSA. De Not. St. 1in. cæspitose; l. squarrose, lanceolate,
recurved, with a broad sheathing base, margin undulate, with large
diaphanous cells, somewhat serrulate at apex; nerve scarcely excurrent;
capsule sub-cylindrical, narrow, slightly curved; lid conical, half as
long as capsule; seta 1in. long: dioicous.

Chalk. Ireland and S. of England; fr. not known in this country.


                        28. CINCLIDOTUS. B. & S.

[C. RIPARIUS. Walker Arnott. Acrocarpous; branches fasciculate; “l.
spreading oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, with thickened margins, very
shortly mucronate, nerve excurrent; caps. exserted on a short thick
pedicel, elliptic-oblong; lid obliquely conico-rostrate; perist. with
numerous subdivisions.”] Bry. Brit. 138.

Not found in Britain, but IV.

 var. β. _terrestris_ has been frequently found, and is now referred to
           _Tortula mucronata_, to which refer.


184. C. FONTINALOIDES. P. Beauv. Cladocarpous; st. 2–5in., in long
straggling tufts, generally floating; l. crowded, spreading, flexuose,
lanceolate, acute, with a thickened margin and strong excurrent nerve;
per. l. larger sheathing ovate-lanceolate, thinner; cap. immersed, with
a conical beaked lid; calyp. persistent, thick, split on one side.

Stones in rivulets, &c. III. IV.


                         29. ENCALYPTA. Schreb.


                            _a._ Monoicous.


                         1. Peristome wanting.

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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.

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.

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