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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

402. F. DECIPIENS. De Not. St. about ½in. fasciculate from base; l.
lower distant, coulter-shaped, upper imbricate patulous, oblong-ligulate
acute or mucronulate, dorsal wing narrow, nerve strongly excurrent,
excavate; the cultriform lobe of the upper leaves obliquely acute,
longer than half the leaf, upper part strongly serrate; caps. ovate,
somewhat constricted at base, erect or inclined; lid large rounded
beaked: dioicous. [De Notaris, Epilogo Briol. Ital. 1869, p. 480.]

Damp rocks and old walls.


403. F. TAMARINDIFOLIUS. Donn. St. about ½in. fasciculate, slender; l.
elliptical “sub-falciform apiculate,” with an entire pellucid
cartilaginous border, nerved to apex; caps. ovate-oblong curved
inclined; lid short conical, with a bluntish point.

Banks, &c. II. III.




                       DIVISION II. PLEUROCARPI.


72. ANŒCTANGIUM. B. & S.

404. A. COMPACTUM. Schw. St. 1–4in. densely tufted, slender; l. short,
lanceolate spreading from an erect base, acuminate, slightly serrulate
near the base only, nerved to or beyond apex; caps. oval-oblong erect;
lid long convex, with a slender oblique beak.

Crevices of moist alpine rocks. Autumn.


405. A. HORNSCHUCHIANUM. Hoppe. “St. elongate cæspitose; l.
linear-subulate from a dilated base, channelled, entire; caps.
roundish-pyriform: lid rostrate.” Wils. “L. upper part of dilated base
is always more or less distinctly crenate or serrulate, from thence to
the apex entire.” W. Mitten, Jour. of Bot., vol. V., p. 329. [Mr. Mitten
refers Dr. Taylor’s plant from Ireland to _Tortula Hibernica_, by which
name it is described under that genus.]


                          73. LEUCODON. SCHW.

406. L SCIUROIDES. Schw. St. or branches 1in. from a creeping rhizome;
l. imbricate, ovate, entire, tapering to a point, plicate, somewhat
secund; per. l. longer, all nerveless; caps. long elliptical erect; lid
conical beaked.

Trees, walls, rocks, &c. IX.


407. L. LAGURUS. Hook. St. ½–1in., tomentous; l. ovate, suddenly
contracted to a piliferous point, concave, serrulate near apex, nerved
half way; caps. cylindrical; lid with a short curved beak.

Trees and rocks.

 var. β. _borealis._ “st. not tomentous; l. auriculate and serrate at
           base, more concave and more suddenly attenuated, with longer
           points; faintly two-nerved at base only.” Wils. N. Uist,
           Hebrides, 1851.


                         74. ANTITRICHIA. BRID.

408. A. CURTIPENDULA. Brid. St. 3–8in. straggling, pinnately branched;
l. ovate, concave, sharply curved to a roughly toothed point, which ends
in a double hook in the younger ones, nerved half way, margins recurved;
caps. roundish elliptical drooping; lid with an oblique beak.

Rocks and trees. IV.


                          75. LEPTODON. BRID.

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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

402. F. DECIPIENS. De Not. St. about ½in. fasciculate from base; l.
lower distant, coulter-shaped, upper imbricate patulous, oblong-ligulate
acute or mucronulate, dorsal wing narrow, nerve strongly excurrent,
excavate; the cultriform lobe of the upper leaves obliquely acute,
longer than half the leaf, upper part strongly serrate; caps. ovate,
somewhat constricted at base, erect or inclined; lid large rounded
beaked: dioicous. [De Notaris, Epilogo Briol. Ital. 1869, p. 480.]

Damp rocks and old walls.


403. F. TAMARINDIFOLIUS. Donn. St. about ½in. fasciculate, slender; l.
elliptical “sub-falciform apiculate,” with an entire pellucid
cartilaginous border, nerved to apex; caps. ovate-oblong curved
inclined; lid short conical, with a bluntish point.

Banks, &c. II. III.




                       DIVISION II. PLEUROCARPI.


72. ANŒCTANGIUM. B. & S.

404. A. COMPACTUM. Schw. St. 1–4in. densely tufted, slender; l. short,
lanceolate spreading from an erect base, acuminate, slightly serrulate
near the base only, nerved to or beyond apex; caps. oval-oblong erect;
lid long convex, with a slender oblique beak.

Crevices of moist alpine rocks. Autumn.


405. A. HORNSCHUCHIANUM. Hoppe. “St. elongate cæspitose; l.
linear-subulate from a dilated base, channelled, entire; caps.
roundish-pyriform: lid rostrate.” Wils. “L. upper part of dilated base
is always more or less distinctly crenate or serrulate, from thence to
the apex entire.” W. Mitten, Jour. of Bot., vol. V., p. 329. [Mr. Mitten
refers Dr. Taylor’s plant from Ireland to _Tortula Hibernica_, by which
name it is described under that genus.]


                          73. LEUCODON. SCHW.

406. L SCIUROIDES. Schw. St. or branches 1in. from a creeping rhizome;
l. imbricate, ovate, entire, tapering to a point, plicate, somewhat
secund; per. l. longer, all nerveless; caps. long elliptical erect; lid
conical beaked.

Trees, walls, rocks, &c. IX.


407. L. LAGURUS. Hook. St. ½–1in., tomentous; l. ovate, suddenly
contracted to a piliferous point, concave, serrulate near apex, nerved
half way; caps. cylindrical; lid with a short curved beak.

Trees and rocks.

 var. β. _borealis._ “st. not tomentous; l. auriculate and serrate at
           base, more concave and more suddenly attenuated, with longer
           points; faintly two-nerved at base only.” Wils. N. Uist,
           Hebrides, 1851.


                         74. ANTITRICHIA. BRID.

408. A. CURTIPENDULA. Brid. St. 3–8in. straggling, pinnately branched;
l. ovate, concave, sharply curved to a roughly toothed point, which ends
in a double hook in the younger ones, nerved half way, margins recurved;
caps. roundish elliptical drooping; lid with an oblique beak.

Rocks and trees. IV.


                          75. LEPTODON. BRID.

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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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