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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

290. O. GRACILE. Schw. St. ½in. slender, tufted; l. long linear
setaceous, carinate, flexuose, entire, faintly nerved nearly to apex;
caps. obovate-clavate, gradually tapering at base into the seta,
inclined; lid long, beaked; calyp. very small.

Sandstone rocks. Yorkshire and Cheshire. III.


                         49. LEPTOBRYUM. WILS.

291. L. PYRIFORME. Wils. St. scarcely ½in.; l. lower lanceolate entire,
upper linear-setaceous, flexuose, serrate at summit, nerve sometimes
reaching apex; caps. pyriform pendulous, on a slender flexuose seta; lid
convex mammillate.

Rocks. Cheshire. V. VI.


                           50. BRYUM. H. & T.


                          Synopsis specierum.

 I. L. erect narrow; not nerved to apex (except No. 1).

   A. Caps. narrow, inclined.
     _a._ monoicous.
       1. acuminatum.
       2. polymorphum.
       3. elongatum.
     _b._ synoicous or dioicous.
       4. crudum.

   B. Caps, pyriform pendulous.
     _a._ monoicous or synoicous.
       5. nutans.
     _b._ dioicous.
       6. annotinum.
       7. carneum.

 II. L. ovate, not nerved to apex.

     _a._ dioicous.
       8. Wahlenbergii.
       9. Ludwigii.
     _b._ monoicous.
       10. Marrattii.
       11. calophyllum.

 III. L. mostly ovate, nerved to apex.

   A. synoicous or monoicous.
       12. lacustre.
       13. Warneum.
   B. dioicous.
       14. pseudotriquetrum.
       15. neodamense.
       16. alpinum.
       17. Muhlenbeckii.
       18. turbinatum.
       19. latifolium.
       20. Duvalii.
       21. pallens.
       22. barbatum.


 IV. L. ovate, nerve excurrent.

   A. monoicous.
       23. uliginosum.
       24. pallescens.
       25. Sauteri.
   B. synoicous.
     _a._ inner perist. imperfect.
       26. cernuum.
       27. inclinatum.
     _b._ inner perist. perfect.
       28. intermedium.
       29. bimum.
       30. torquescens.
   C. dioicous.
       31. obconicum.
       32. capillare.
       33. Donianum.
       34. Billarderii.
       35. cæspiticium.
       36. murale.
       37. sanguineum.
       38. atropurpureum.
       39. apiculatum.

 V. L. very concave, imbricate, nerve mostly ceasing below apex,
    dioicous.

   A. caps. symmetrical.
       40. julaceum.
       41. argenteum.
       42. Funkii.

   B. mouth of caps. oblique.
       43. Zierii.
       44. demissum.

 VI. L. broad roundish bordered.

       45. Tozeri.

 VII. L. very large, in a terminal rosaceous tuft.

       46. roseum.


                                SECT. I.

292. (1) B. ACUMINATUM. B. & S. St. ½–1in., simple or branched; l.
rigid, lower ovate-lanceolate, upper linear-lanceolate larger, margins
recurved, nerved to serrulate apex, sometimes secund; caps. almost
horizontal, narrowly clavate, tapering at base; lid sharply conical.
(There are many varieties.)

Crevices of rocks and mountainous districts. VIII.

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