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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

ATRICHUM (42). Caps. cylindrical, erect or cernuous, calyptra
 narrow, almost naked, spinulose at apex only; teeth 32
 ligulate rigid, united at base by a narrow membrane, leaves
 not sheathing, lamellæ few, nerve narrow. Columella round.         100.

 OLIGOTRICHUM (43). Caps. sub-cylindrical, erect, gibbous,
 peristome as above; calyptra slightly setose at apex; leaves
 sheathing at base, more lamellated, nerve wider; columella
 winged.                                                            101.

 POGONATUM (44) Caps. ovate or urceolate, regular, erect or
 inclined, calyptra very hairy, peristome as above; leaves
 rigid, densely lamellated, nerve thick and broad.                  101.

 † † Caps. angular; teeth 64, rarely                                 32.

 POLYTRICHUM (46). Caps. with a discoid apophysis, erect, when
 ripe horizontal; teeth 64 (in some species 32). Calyptra very
 hairy; leaves as in last.                                          102.


                         III. PERISTOME DOUBLE.

                        _a._ Caps. plano-convex.

 BUXBAUMIA (40). Caps. very large, apophysate, oblique; outer
 teeth irregular reddish, opaque, inner a pale conical plicate
 membrane, calyptra small, only covering the conical obtuse
 lid, fugacious, entire or laterally cleft.                          99.

                         _b._ Caps. cylindrical.

 ENCALYPTA (partly) (29). _vide ante p. 2._

                           _c._ Caps. oblong.

 ORTHOTRICHUM (chiefly) (36). _vide ante p. 5._

               _d._ Caps. obovate, unequal, mouth oblique.

 FUNARIA (57). Caps. obliquely pyriform ventricose, sub-erect
 or cernuous; outer perist. 16, obliquely lanceolate, teeth
 trabeculate, longitudinally striate, and connected at apex by
 a small circular disc, very hygrometric, inner a membrane
 divided into 16 lanceolate processes opposite to outer;
 calyptra inflated below.                                           126.

 AMBLYODON (56). Caps. clavate or sub-pyriform, incurved
 sub-erect; perist. outer, 16 short, erect, obtuse teeth; inner
 (longer) a membrane divided into 16 carinate processes,
 without cilia. Calyptra indexed at base; leaves loosely
 reticulated.                                                       125.

 MEESIA (55). Caps, obovate or clavate, curved, gibbous,
 sub-erect, neck long, tapering into seta; perist. outer 16
 short, obtuse teeth, somewhat united to inner, entire or split
 along medial line; inner same as last; leaves of close firm
 texture, strongly nerved.                                          125.

                         _e._ Capsule striated.

 ZYGODON (37). _vide ante p. 7._

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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.

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