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
96. D. PALUSTRE. Brid. Dr. Braithwaite points out in _Grevillea_ I.,
109, that La Pylaie’s specimens of this moss (Bridel Bryol. Univ. I.
814) belong to _Campylopus flexuosus_, as shewn by De Notaris in his
Epil. Bryol. Ital.; and that hence the name D. BONJEANII, De Not. is to
be preferred. The synonymy would then stand:—
96. D. BONJEANII. De Not. Syllab. Muse. 213 (1838); Muell. Synopsis I.,
369 (1849). _D. palustre._ Bry. Eur. and Bry. Brit., p. 79 (_non_
Bridel.) _D. undulatum._ Turn. Musc. Hib.
The following amended diagnosis of this species is from the same author
(in _Grev._ i., 109):—“Seta solitary; st. erect; l. more or less
erecto-patent, straight, from a broad linear flat base, broadly
oblong-lanceolate, gradually narrowed into a strap-shaped point,
tapering into an acute apex, lightly undulate above, canaliculate;
margin acutely serrate above, teeth uniform in shape and direction;
nerve very narrow, vanishing below apex, _smooth_ at back; basal cells
short quadrate, brownish, above elongate hexagonal or parallelogramic,
uppermost elliptic-oblong.”
361. _E. minimum_, Hunt. is now ascertained to be SPLACHNOBRYUM
WRIGHTII, Muell., and can hardly be considered as indigenous, “for the
spores have most probably been mixed with soil attached to some exotic,
and thus accidentally scattered on the wall where it was
found.”—[Braithwaite.]
SPLACHNOBRYUM. C. Muell. Verhand. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 1869. p. 501.
“Calyp. dimidiate, enclosing the whole theca and embracing spirally the
upper part of the seta, cleft at side, smooth, fugacious. Perist.
simple, arising below mouth of caps., teeth 16 very narrow,
linear-lanceolate acicular, with the articulations remote. Columella
immersed. Dioicous, male fl. gemmaceous, without paraphyses. Plants
small slender, with distant spathulate leaves.”
S. WRIGHTII. Muell. l. c. (_Entosthodon minimus_, Hunt. l. c.
_Amblyphyllum Hibernicum_, Lindb. MS.)
“St. ¼–⅓in. simple sub-flexuose, pale red, slightly radiculose; l.
bright green distant (base narrow, slightly decurrent), patent,
flattish, obovate or spathulate, rounded at apex, margin reflexed below,
entire or minutely serrulate in male, crenulate above in female plant,
nerve thick, prominent at back, vanishing below apex; cells large lax,
pellucid, smooth, incrassate, rhombo-rectangular at base, rhomboidal
above, smaller and nearly circular at margin; caps. erect, obconical at
base, sub-cylindrical, wide-mouthed, pale brown; seta slender, twisted
to left; lid conical acute.” [Dr. Braithwaite, l. c.]
III. ERRATA.
p. 57. Head line, “c” inverted.
„ 71. line 9, for “obtuse,” read “acute.”
„ 81. line 5 from bottom, specific name should begin with a capital
M.
„ 99. for “TETRADONTIUM” read “TETRODONTIUM.”
„ „ last line, before “long” read “l.”
„ 127. line 17, for “hexaganal” read “hexagonal.”
„ 141. line 6 from bottom, for “Nowcll” read “Nowell.”
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