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.
Hobkirk, Charles C. P. (Charles Codrington Pressick)
Mosses -- Great Britain
ε. _lacunosum._ more robust; br. thickened; l. larger
sub-coriaceous, yellowish brown.
ζ. _longisetum._ slender, l. pale, serrulate; seta elongate, caps.
short ovate.
θ. _mammillatum._ caps. with a short conical or mammillate lid.
519. H. RESUPINATUM. Wils. St. creeping, sub-pinnate; l. erecto-patent,
secund, pointing upwards, ovate-lanceolate, tapering to a point, entire,
nerveless; caps. oblong erect, almost symmetrical; lid with an oblique
beak.
Walls, rocks, trees, &c. X. XII.
520. H. LINDBERGH. Mitt. Jour, of Bot. I., p. 123. (_H. pratense_, Bry.
Brit. 399.) “St. sparingly branched in an irregular manner, without any
appearance of becoming pinnate; l. loosely compressed ovate or
ovate-lanceolate, acute, but with a broad point,[2] margins entire,
nerveless; cells at angles enlarged and pale; caps., according to
Lindberg, is on a rather thick seta 1in. long, turgid ovate, when dry
plicate.”
Footnote 2:
Some of the leaves, even on authenticated specimens, have longer and
narrower points (acuminate), but in no case that I have seen are they
denticulate.
“Damp sandy ground among thin grass, not in bogs. The fr. has been
gathered once by Dr. Klingraff in June, in W. Prussia.”
“_H. pratense_ differs from above in its irregularly pinnate stems,
more compressed foliage, l. lanceolate with a narrow point denticulate
at apex, and the enlarged basal cells of same colour; not found in
Britain.”
521. H. ARCUATUM. Lindb. (_H. pratense_, var. β. Bry. Brit.) “L. more
falcato-secund, scarcely complanate.”
Clay soils, common.
_Sect. VII._ Prostrate or ascending, rooting, regularly pinnate; l.
hamate, circinnato-secund; caps. cernuous, solid, lid convexo-conical.
522. H. MOLLUSCUM. Dill. St. soft, 1–2in. sub-erect; l. circinnate
secund; st. l. cordate; br. l. ovate-lanceolate—all tapering acuminate,
striate, serrulate, and faintly two-nerved, crisped when dry; caps.
ovate, horizontal; lid conical, large, sharply pointed.
Moist banks and limestone rocks, common. XI.
_Sect. VIII._ St. erect, rigid, villose, regularly pinnate; l. hamate;
caps. oblong, incurved, solid.
523. H. CRISTA-CASTRENSIS. L. St. sub-erect, 3–4in. pectinate; st. l.
ovate-acuminate, br. l. narrowly lanceolate acuminate, strongly striate,
serrulate near apex—all circinnato-secund, faintly two-nerved, margin
reflexed; caps. oblong curved, cernuous, lid conical, pointed; dioicous.
Woods and alpine rocks. VII. VIII.
_Sect. IX._ St. soft cæspitose, prostrate, branched; l. falcato-secund,
rarely spreading, faintly nerved; areolæ linear; per. l. long, deeply
sulcate; caps. incurved cernuous, lid convexo-conical or mammillate.
_a._ Monoicous.
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