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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

DIPHYSCIUM (41). Caps. very large sessile, oblique ovate,
 gibbous; calyptra small, entire at base, scarcely covering the
 conical lid.                                                        99.


                    SUB-DIV. II. Calyptra dimidiate.

    _a._ Calyptra inflexed at base, at first conico-mitriform, caps.
   clavato-pyriform; teeth 16 or 32 plane, more or less paired, with a
                              medial line.

 DISSODON (68). Caps. oval, with a long solid tapering neck,
 lid conico-convex, obtuse, teeth 32, united into eight
 bi-geminate teeth, or into 16 pairs, linear-lanceolate,
 incurved when dry; leaves obtuse entire. Infl. monoicous or
 synoicous, barren fl. gemmiform.                                   134.

 TAYLORIA (67). Caps. with a long clavate or sub-pyriform neck;
 teeth 16, or 32 cohering in pairs, reflexed when dry; leaves
 acuminate serrated. Infl. monoicous; barren fl. capituliform.      134.

                   _b._ Calyptra not indexed at base.

               * Teeth in eight pairs, reflexed when dry.

 TETRAPLODON (66). Caps. with a solid clavate or oval apophysis
 wider than itself; leaves loosely reticulated, acuminate.
 Infl. monoicous, barren fl. gemmiform or capituliform,
 3–5–leaved.                                                        134.

 ZYGODON (37) (partly). Caps. erect, pyriform, striated,
 apophysate. Perist. double, single, or absent; outer teeth 32
 united two or four together, representing 16 or 8 plane teeth,
 inner of 8 or 16 cilia, alternating; calyptra small cucullate
 smooth oblique, lid obliquely rostrate; leaves minutely
 dotted.                                                             97.

             * * Teeth 16 equidistant, simple, or nearly so.

              ‡ Caps. pyriform or oval, erect or inclined.

 ENTOSTHODON (58). Caps. erect, pyriform, symmetrical; lid
 plano-convex, teeth short and broad triangular; calyptra
 inflated below, cucullate; leaves loosely reticulated.             127.

 MIELICHHOFERIA (53). Caps. pyriform, inclined or horizontal,
 on a slender curved seta; calyptra small, not inflated; teeth
 longer, linear-subulate, confluent and dilated at base.            124.

 BLINDIA (13). Caps. roundish, turbinate-erect; teeth 16
 lanceolate, remotely barred, entire or perforate, sometimes
 cleft; calyptra angular at base, afterwards cleft on one side;
 seta short; perennial cæspitose.                                    39.

 SELIGERIA (10). Caps. roundish-pyriform, smooth, teeth
 lanceolate obtuse, sometimes perforate, without medial line;
 calyptra small cucullate; leaves setaceous; stems annual or
 biennial gregarious, not cæspitose. Infl. monoicous, terminal
 gemmiform.                                                          37.

 BRACHYODUS (9). _See page 6._

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