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
542. H. (HYLOCOMIUM) BREVIROSTRE. Ehrh. St. 2–6in. arched, erect, with
branched villi, irregularly bipinnate; st. l. distant, almost squarrose,
plicato-striate, cordate, and suddenly acuminate; br. l.
ovate-acuminate, not so suddenly acuminate, striate—all serrulate and
two-nerved half way; caps. roundish ovate, cernuous; lid conical,
tapering into a rather long inclined beak: dioicous.
Mountainous woods. X. XI.
_c._ L. squarrose.
543. H. (HYLOCOMIUM) SQUARROSUM. Dill. St. 2–3in. reddish, slender, more
or less erect, irregularly pinnate; br. drooping; st. l. squarrose,
recurved, ovate, gradually tapering and very acute, faintly striate
below; br. l. narrower, less recurved, and squarrose—all serrulate and
shortly two-nerved: caps. roundish ovate, drooping; lid conical, with a
short sharp point: dioicous.
Banks and woods. XI.
544. H. (HYLOCOMIUM) TRIQUETRUM. Dill. St. 6in. or more, rigid, reddish,
erect, sub-pinnate; br. long straggling; st. l. squarrose or sub-secund,
striate; br. l. spreading, scarcely striate—all triangular acuminate
from a cordate, amplexicaul base, serrulate and two-nerved half way;
caps. roundish ovate, cernuous; lid conical, acute: dioicous.
Woods, &c. XI.
_d._ L. secund, or falcato-secund.
545. H. (HYLOCOMIUM) LOREUM. Dill. St. 6–12in. slender, erect, or
procumbent, more or less pinnate; br. drooping straggling; l. squarrose,
recurved, more or less secund at summit of stem and branches,
ovate-lanceolate, with a long acumen, not cordate or amplexicaul;
plicato-striate below; shortly and faintly two-nerved, sometimes
nerveless; caps. small roundish ovate; lid conical, sharply pointed:
dioicous.
Mountainous woods. XI.
84. OMALIA. BRID.
546. O. TRICHOMANOIDES. Dill. St. about 1in. irregularly pinnate; l.
crowded, sub-secund, complanate, oval, serrulate at obtuse rounded apex,
faintly nerved half way; caps. small sub-cylindrical, sub-erect, lid
with an oblique beak.
Trunks of trees and shady rocks. X. XI.
85. NECKERA. Hedwig.
547. N. COMPLANATA. Bry. Eur. St. 1–2in. pinnate; br. short crowded
attenuate; l. complanate, not undulate, obliquely ovate-oblong, suddenly
apiculate from broadish apex, faintly and shortly two-nerved; caps.
roundish elliptical, tapering below, erect; lid large, obliquely
rostrate: dioicous.
Trunks of trees, walls, &c. X.—XII.
548. N. CRISPA. Dill. St. 4–6in. pinnate, from a creeping rhizome; l.
complanate, undulate, ovate-oblong or ovate-ligulate, somewhat obtuse
and pointed, serrulate at apex, faintly and shortly two-nerved or singly
nerved half way; caps. roundish ovate erect; lid with a long oblique
beak: dioicous.
Mountainous rocks, trees. XI.—IV.
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