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H Y PN U M TRIFARIUM,
Trifarious Hypmm.
C la s s a n d O k d e k CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI, L m n— N a t O k d . MUSCI, Jms.
G EN E R IC CHARAC TER :
s a a lateralis. Peristomium duplex: ext. e dentatihus^ 1 6 : int. membrana plicata,
\ 6-laciniata, ciliis alternantUnis. Calyptra dimidiata.— H ook.
F ruitstalk lateral. Peristome double : the outer one of l6 te e th ; the inner
one of a pUcate membrane, cleft into 16 segments, w ith c i l i a r y processes
between them. Calyptra dimidiate.
S P E C IF IC CHARAC TER .
H ypnum tr if a r ium ; caulibus subsimplicibus, elongaiis,folns ovatis oblusis mle-
gerrimis, trifario-imbricalis, subereclis, tumido-concavis, nervo apicem versus
evanescenti.
H stems nearly simple, elongated, leaves ovate, obtuse, entire, trifariously
imbricated, suberect, tumid and concave, with a nerve disappearing towards
the extremity.
H y p n u m t r i f a r i u m , Web. et Mohr, It. Suec. p. 177- t . 2. f . 2 .-E ju sL Tasch.
p. s i 9.—Brid. Muse. Suppl. 2. p. m .—Meth. p. l 6l .— Wahl. Fl. Lapp.
ed. 2. p. 701.—Funck, Deutschl. Moose, p. 57.
H y pn um stramineuro, var. fi, Schrcaegr. Sp. Muse. II. p. 212. t. 89-
H y p n u m uliginosum, Schleich. Cent. 3. No. 54,. Jide Schmaegr.
H ab. Moist bogs and peat-holes on Ben Hallum and Ben Lawers, 1824.
Stems slender, S inches to a foot or more in length, nearly simple, or bearing
one or two branchlets about h a lf an inch lo n g ; varying in colour from
a rich brownish-purple to green. Leaves broadly ovate, very obtuse,
with an entire margin, extremely concave, and, as it were inflated, closely
imbricated in a suberect position, and distinctly arranged on three
sides of the stem. T hey are furnished with a single nerve, reaching at
least two-thirds o f their length. Leaves of the perichaUhmi, according to
S c h w a e g r i c h e n ’s figure, closely imbricated (the summits of the outer
ones spreading), nerved, and oblong-lanceolate. Fruitstalk smooth;
capside almost cylindrical, somewhat cernuous; the lid conical.
“ Pulcherrimus muscus et distinctissinius,” is an expression
applied by W e b e r and M o h r to tbis plant, from wbicb I