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
213. G. COMMUTATA. Hueb. Loosely tufted, blackish green, hoary at top;
stems slender flexuose, naked below; l. lower small loosely imbricate,
upper much longer ovate-lanceolate, from a broad upright base declining,
shortly hair-pointed; per. l. three internal erect sheathing, longly
pointed; basal cells rectangular, upper quadrate; caps. ovate or
ovate-globose erect, smooth, exserted, lid acutely and obliquely
rostrate, annulus broad. [Schp. Syn. p. 109. Dr. Braithwaite, l. c.
198.]
Dry quartzose rocks. Moncreiff Hill, Perth (Dr. Stirton); Dunkeld (Dr.
B. White); Clova, in fr. (Fergusson.)
Spring.
214. G. MONTANA. B. & S. St. slender dichotomous; l. erecto-patent
oblong-lanceolate with a long hair-point, very concave, margin erect;
basal cells diaphanous quadrato-hexagonal, above minute rounded
thickened opaque; caps. erect on a short seta, ovate small brown very
smooth; lid, obliquely rostrate; calyptra large cucullate long beaked,
annulus simple; per. teeth irregularly torn. [Dr. Braithwaite, l. c.
199.]
Sandstone and granite rocks. Deeside, Aberdeenshire, 1869 (Prof. Barker
and Mr. Roy); Bolt Head, Devonshire, in fruit (Mr. Holmes).
215. G. ELONGATA. Kaulfuss. In loose cushioned tufts, black below,
innovations olive green with hoary tips. St. slender, repeatedly
dichotomous, naked below without radicles. L. patulous, lower lanceolate
muticous, upper elongate-lanceolate obtuse with the apex diaphanous,
margin erect, basal cells rectangular hyaline at margin, becoming minute
and quadrate above; caps. ovate erect smooth pale brown, on a straight
seta; lid conical obtuse, annulus narrow; per. t. lanceolate red entire
or slightly perforate; calyp. multifid, long beaked. (Dr. Braithwaite,
l. c. 199.)
Alpine rocks. Glen Callater and Glen Phee, Clova, 1868 (Fergusson); near
Glasgow (Dr. Stirton).
216. G. UNICOLOR. Grev. St. 1–2in. loosely cæspitose, naked below;
branches brittle flexuose; l. erect channelled lanceolate-subulate from
an ovate base, obtuse, not hair-pointed, rigid, margin incurved, broadly
nerved to apex; caps. ovate, nearly erect, with a large annulus and a
long straight or slightly inclined beak: dioicous.
Alpine rocks, Clova. IV. (?)
217. G. ATRATA. Miel. St. cæspitose, 1–2in., l. blackish, rigid,
erecto-patent lanceolate-subulate, carinate, margin reflexed, scarcely
so obtuse as the last, with a thinner nerve scarcely reaching to apex.
Caps. elliptic-oblong on a longer seta, with a large annulus and short
rostellate lid: dioicous.
Alpine rocks. Snowdon, Glen Callater. X.–IV.
33. RACOMITRIUM. B. & S.
A. Dichotomously branched, innovations simple fastigiate.
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