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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

347. M. STELLARE. Hed. St. ½–2in. erect; l. oval-acuminate or
ovate-lanceolate, simply serrate, decurrent, scarcely nerved to apex;
caps. solitary, ovate, horizontal or cernuous; lid convex blunt:
dioicous. (Does not fruit with us.)

Shady rocks and banks. Yorkshire, Surrey. V. VI.


                   B. L. nearly entire, not bordered.

348. M. CINCLIDIOIDES. Hueb. St. 2–4in. sometimes with slender branches;
l. lower oval obtuse, scarcely pointed, upper large oval ligulate obtuse
(marginal cells narrower), almost entire, slightly undulate, nerved
nearly to apex; caps. oval pendulous; lid convex pointed: dioicous.

Wet and boggy places on mountains, Clova, &c. Summer.


               C. L. entire, with a cartilaginous border.

349. M. PUNCTATUM, Hed. St. ½–3in., erect, radiculose; l. obovate or
roundish obtuse, obscurely pointed, upper in a somewhat rosaceous tuft;
generally nerved to apex; caps. oval pendulous; lid conical, with a
longish beak: dioicous.

Wet shady places. II. III.


350. M. SUBGLOBOSUM. B. & S. St. 1in. or more, erect; l. obovate or
roundish obtuse, not nerved to apex; border narrow sub-cartilaginous;
caps. roundish, contracted at mouth, sub-pendulous; lid small conical
beaked: synoicous.

Marshes and bogs. III.


                        52. CINCLIDIUM. SWARTZ.

351. C. STYGIUM. Sw. St. 1–4in. tufted, erect, with purplish radicles;
l. roundish obovate, obtuse, pointed, rigid, very narrow at base, border
cartilaginous, nerved to or beyond apex; caps. obovate or pyriform,
pendulous, on a long seta, lid convex obtuse, sometimes pointed;
synoicous.

Bogs. Malham Tarn (Nowell, Wilson). VI. VII.


                      53. MIELICHHOFERIA. N. & H.

352. M. NITIDA. Horn. “L. erecto-patent, larger and more crowded above,
ovate-lanceolate, serrated at apex; caps. sub-erect pyriform; lid
conical, very short.”

 var. β. _gracilis._ more densely tufted; l. shorter, more crowded,
           imbricate; caps. erect. [Wils. Bry. Brit., p. 263.]

Type not British; var. β. only found at head of Glen Callater, 1830 (Dr.
Greville); again in same locality, 1868 (Fergusson and Roy); Ingleby,
Yorkshire, 1862 (Mudd.)


                          54. PALUDELLA. EHR.

353. P. SQUARROSA. Brid. St. 2–6in. radiculose; l. obovate-lanceolate,
pointed, recurved above the middle, squarrose, nerved to and serrulate
at apex, margins recurved below; caps. elliptic-oblong gibbous, with a
short thick neck, inclined; lid mammillate.

Boggy places. No fr. found in Britain. Summer.


                           55. MEESIA. HEDW.

354. M. ULIGINOSA. Hedw. St. ½–1in. radiculose, br. fastigiate; l.
lanceolate or linear obtuse (upper longer), entire, margin recurved,
scarcely nerved to apex; caps. pyriform, with a long tapering neck,
incurved, inclined; lid conical truncate; seta very long.

Wet and boggy places. VII. VIII.

[It is very questionable whether _M. longiseta_ has ever been found in
the British Islands.]


                        56. AMBLYODON. P. BEAUV.

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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

347. M. STELLARE. Hed. St. ½–2in. erect; l. oval-acuminate or
ovate-lanceolate, simply serrate, decurrent, scarcely nerved to apex;
caps. solitary, ovate, horizontal or cernuous; lid convex blunt:
dioicous. (Does not fruit with us.)

Shady rocks and banks. Yorkshire, Surrey. V. VI.


                   B. L. nearly entire, not bordered.

348. M. CINCLIDIOIDES. Hueb. St. 2–4in. sometimes with slender branches;
l. lower oval obtuse, scarcely pointed, upper large oval ligulate obtuse
(marginal cells narrower), almost entire, slightly undulate, nerved
nearly to apex; caps. oval pendulous; lid convex pointed: dioicous.

Wet and boggy places on mountains, Clova, &c. Summer.


               C. L. entire, with a cartilaginous border.

349. M. PUNCTATUM, Hed. St. ½–3in., erect, radiculose; l. obovate or
roundish obtuse, obscurely pointed, upper in a somewhat rosaceous tuft;
generally nerved to apex; caps. oval pendulous; lid conical, with a
longish beak: dioicous.

Wet shady places. II. III.


350. M. SUBGLOBOSUM. B. & S. St. 1in. or more, erect; l. obovate or
roundish obtuse, not nerved to apex; border narrow sub-cartilaginous;
caps. roundish, contracted at mouth, sub-pendulous; lid small conical
beaked: synoicous.

Marshes and bogs. III.


                        52. CINCLIDIUM. SWARTZ.

351. C. STYGIUM. Sw. St. 1–4in. tufted, erect, with purplish radicles;
l. roundish obovate, obtuse, pointed, rigid, very narrow at base, border
cartilaginous, nerved to or beyond apex; caps. obovate or pyriform,
pendulous, on a long seta, lid convex obtuse, sometimes pointed;
synoicous.

Bogs. Malham Tarn (Nowell, Wilson). VI. VII.


                      53. MIELICHHOFERIA. N. & H.

352. M. NITIDA. Horn. “L. erecto-patent, larger and more crowded above,
ovate-lanceolate, serrated at apex; caps. sub-erect pyriform; lid
conical, very short.”

 var. β. _gracilis._ more densely tufted; l. shorter, more crowded,
           imbricate; caps. erect. [Wils. Bry. Brit., p. 263.]

Type not British; var. β. only found at head of Glen Callater, 1830 (Dr.
Greville); again in same locality, 1868 (Fergusson and Roy); Ingleby,
Yorkshire, 1862 (Mudd.)


                          54. PALUDELLA. EHR.

353. P. SQUARROSA. Brid. St. 2–6in. radiculose; l. obovate-lanceolate,
pointed, recurved above the middle, squarrose, nerved to and serrulate
at apex, margins recurved below; caps. elliptic-oblong gibbous, with a
short thick neck, inclined; lid mammillate.

Boggy places. No fr. found in Britain. Summer.


                           55. MEESIA. HEDW.

354. M. ULIGINOSA. Hedw. St. ½–1in. radiculose, br. fastigiate; l.
lanceolate or linear obtuse (upper longer), entire, margin recurved,
scarcely nerved to apex; caps. pyriform, with a long tapering neck,
incurved, inclined; lid conical truncate; seta very long.

Wet and boggy places. VII. VIII.

[It is very questionable whether _M. longiseta_ has ever been found in
the British Islands.]


                        56. AMBLYODON. P. BEAUV.

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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.

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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