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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

δ. caps. obovate or clavate; lid plane or conical; l. loosely
                              reticulated.

                          * Calyptra mitriform.

 SCHISTOSTEGA (70). Caps. small oval, lid convex; calyptra
 small, _at length dimidiate_; infl. dioicous terminal, barren
 fl. gemmiform; l. nerveless, vertically distichous, very
 tender, areolæ large rhomboid.                                     135.

 PHYSCOMITRIUM (59). Annual or biennial. Primary stem
 terminated by a discoid barren fl. from below which rises a
 branch bearing a terminal fertile fl.; caps. clavate, lid
 convex; calyptra large inflated; l. spreading every way,
 nerved; areolæ large oblong, acute.                                127.

                         * * Calyptra dimidiate.

 ŒDIPODIUM (69). Caps. with a long tapering apophysis,
 gradually passing into the fruit-stalk; lid plano-convex;
 infl. monoicous or synoicous; l. succulent broad, obtuse;
 areolæ roundish hexagonal, larger at base.                         135.

                   ε. caps. globose; lid almost plane.

            * Calyptra conico-mitriform, small; l. nerveless.

 HEDWIGIA (30). Caps. immersed, sub-sessile; infl. monoicous,
 barren fl. axillary gemmiform; areolæ small quadrate, longer
 and flexuose below.                                                 76.

 HEDWIGIDIUM (31). Caps. exserted on a short pedicel; barren
 fl. terminal; stem stoloniferous; l. plicate longitudinally,
 areolæ longer.                                                      77.

                   * * Calyptra dimidiate; l. nerved.

 BARTRAMIDULA (60). Caps. on a curved pedicel, smooth,
 cernuous; infl. synoicous; lid small sub-conical; calyptra
 small cucullate; areolæ lax, oblong-hexagonal.                     128.


                          II. PERISTOME SINGLE.

                     SUB-DIV. I. Calyptra mitriform.

                       † Calyptra plicato-striate.

                            _a._ teeth four.

 TETRAPHIS (38). Perennial, caulescent, cæspitose; per. teeth
 long rigid, with irregular longitudinal lines; areolæ
 hexagonal.                                                          98.

 TETRODONTIUM (39). Annual, stem none, gregarious; l. few, very
 minute.                                                             99.

                       _b._ Teeth 16, equidistant.

 PTYCHOMITRIUM (35). Caps. erect, regular, tapering at base,
 annulus large, lid conico-rostrate; teeth bifid, not
 hygroscopic; calyptra deeply furrowed, mitriform, subulate
 above, shorter than capsule; infl. monoicous; barren. fl.
 gemmiform, generally axillary.                                      89.

                        _c._ Teeth 16, in pairs.

 GLYPHOMITRIUM (34). Calyptra large ventricose laciniate below,
 entirely covering the capsule, contracted at the base; Infl.
 as in last; per. teeth hygroscopic reflexed when dry.               88.

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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.

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