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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

394. F. INCURVUS. Schw. St. ¼in. about, ascending from a decumbent base;
l. lanceolate oblong apiculate, narrowly margined, nerve ceasing near
the serrate apex; caps. oval oblique, curved, rarely erect, lid conical
rostellate; perist. not immersed; barren fl. sessile at base of stem.
[Schp. Syn. 104.]

Shady banks, Cheshire; Hurst-pier-point. II. III.

  var. _Lylei._ l. scarcely margined, narrow; perist. immersed.
          Cheshire, rare.


395. F. PUSILLUS. Wils. St. shorter; l. erect, acute, narrow; caps.
sub-erect; perist. immersed.

Sandstone rocks.


396. F. CRASSIPES. Wils. St. ¼–¾in.; plant more robust; l. larger,
broader, and more numerous; caps. obovate-roundish on a short seta,
erect.

Sluices. Sandford, near Oxford. X. XI.


397. F. BRYOIDES. Hedw, St. ¼–½in.; l. lanceolate apiculate, with a
thickened margin, dorsal wing reaching to, and broad at, the base,
strongly nerved to or beyond apex; caps. elliptical erect, symmetrical;
lid conical, acutely rostellate; barren fl. axillary.

Shady banks, frequent. I.—III.


                             _b._ Dioicous.

398. F. OSMUNDIOIDES. Hedw. St. 1–2in. tufted, erect, radiculose; l.
lower scattered, small, upper larger crowded, ovate-lanceolate obtuse,
apiculate, margin not thickened, almost entire, not nerved to apex, the
latter sometimes toothed; caps. small oval-oblong, sub-erect; lid large
convex rostrate.

Wet mountainous rocks. X. XI.


399. F. ASPLENIOIDES. Hedw. St. (in var. β. only found in Britain)
3–12in.; l. linear-lanceolate or ligulate entire, obtuse, incurved when
dry; caps. sub-erect obovate, slightly incurved; lid rostrate, as long
as capsule; barren fl. axillary or terminal.

 var. β. _polyphyllos._ “branches arcuate, l. wider, rather acute, more
           strongly nerved, serrulate at apex, barren fl. numerous
           axillary.” [Wils. Bry. Brit.] Moist shady rocks on mountains.
           W. I.


                         II. Fructif. lateral.

400. _F. adiantoedes._ Hedw. St. 1–2in. branched, leafy; l.
ovate-lanceolate, finely serrulate below, dentate at apex, nerved almost
or quite to apex; border sometimes thickened; caps. oval-oblong,
constricted at mouth when dry, cernuous; lid with a long beak:
monoicous.

Shady wet rocks and bogs. X.–IV.


401. F. TAXIFOLIUS. Hedw. St. about ½in. fasciculate from base; l.
lanceolate, pointed, not bordered, finely crenulate, nerved almost to
apex; caps. almost ovate, inclined on a seta curved at summit, and
inserted at base of stem, lid large convex with a long oblique beak:
monoicous.

Moist shady banks. XII.—II.

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