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
240. O. AFFINE. Schrad. St. ½–1in. tufted branched; l. spreading,
oblong-lanceolate, with a blunt point, margin revolute and slightly
undulate, strongly papillose on both sides; caps. elliptic-oblong,
somewhat exserted, contracted when dry, striæ narrow. Perist. eight pale
teeth and eight filiform cilia; calyp. large greenish yellow hairy.
Trees, walls, &c., common. VI. VII.
241. O. RUPESTRE. Schl. St. 1in. or more, cæspitose, creeping at base;
l. broadly lanceolate, spreading, slightly recurved; caps. pyriform,
mouth large, scarcely exserted, striæ indistinct; calyp. large yellow,
with long hairs; perist. 16 pale teeth in pairs (equidistant when dry),
and eight cilia.
Mountainous rocks. VII. VIII.
var. β. _rupincola._ “l. sub-erect, caps. smaller.”
γ. “stem longer; caps. exserted, calyp. very hairy.”
242. O. SPECIOSUM. Nees. St. 1in. or more, tufted, branched; l.
spreading, lanceolate, somewhat pointed, papillose, margins recurved;
caps. shortly exserted elliptic-oblong, faintly striate at summit, lid
conical beaked; calyp. large yellowish, with long hairs; perist. eight
yellowish teeth, and eight cilia.
Trees, rare. Montrose and Corrie Mulzie. VII. VIII.
243. O. LYELLII. Hook. St. 2in. or more, loosely tufted, with erect
branches; l. much spreading long linear-lanceolate, wavy, scarcely
serrate at apex, and studded with papillæ and brownish gland-like
bodies; caps. elliptic-oblong, with a distinct tapering apophysis, and
faint striæ; calyp. very large, brown tipped, with a few long whitish
hairs. Perist. 16 pale teeth, and 16 red-toothed cilia.
Old tree trunks, rare in fr. VII.
244. O. RIVULARE. Turn. St. long tufted, often floating; l. oblong-ovate
flaccid, sometimes sub-secund, obtuse, with a strong nerve and small
papillæ; margin recurved below: caps. pyriform, broadly striate, almost
immersed; perist. eight teeth in pairs, afterwards nearly equidistant,
and 16 cilia; calyp. large dull green hairless.
Rocks and tree trunks at edges of streams. E. W. I. IV. V.
245. O. SPRUCEI. Mont. St. ¼in. tufted; l. oblong-ovate or ligulate,
apex rounded and tipped with an apiculus, scarcely reflexed, thinly
nerved, not papillose; caps. pyriform, scarcely exserted, contracted at
mouth when dry, striæ broad; lid with a short beak; calyp. reddish
tipped, large, hairless; perist. 16 teeth, in pairs, yellowish, and
eight, sometimes 16, cilia.
Trees near rivers. York, Matlock, Glasgow. V. VI.
246. O. DIAPHANUM. Schrad. St. scarcely ½in. tufted; l. spreading,
ovate-lanceolate, tapering to a slender diaphanous serrulate point,
margin recurved; caps. somewhat pyriform, almost immersed, faintly
striate; calyp. generally naked; perist. 16 equidistant teeth, sometimes
split at apex, and 16 cilia.
Walls, trees, and palings. IV.
3. Caps. without furrows.
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