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leaves and the seta becoming flexuose and arched when moist ; the capsule
also is smaller and more globose than in the other species.
8. B R A C H Y D O N T IU M B r u c h .
(Ftirnr. in Flora 1827, P. II, 37.)
Plants very small, densely gregarious ; lea ves resembling those of
Seligeria. Ca lyp tra mitriform, 5-lobed, conical. Capsule erect, oblong,
substriate, w ith a very broad persistent annulus ; teeth o f per. confluent
a t base, broad, truncate, v ery short and thin, dotted, and with a few
perforations.— Deriv. Ppagvs short, oSovs a tooth.
Schimper states that this genus was founded by Bruch, whose pupil
Fiirnrohr published the manuscript notes in Bruch’s herbarium without
acknowledgment, and perhaps for this reason afterwards altered the name to
Brachyodus. The genus Campylostelium, usually associated with this, finds a
more natural place with Glyphomitrimn.
BRACHYDONTIUM TRICHODES [Web. Mohr.) Fiirnr.
Autoicous ; v ery small, simple. L e a v e s lanceolate-subulate,
stra igh t. Capsule cylindric-oblong, e re c t ; lid convex, ros tellate.
(T. X V I I , D.)
S y n — Gvnmostomum trichodes W e b . M o h r Ind. mus. pl. cr. 3 (1803) et Arch. syst. naturges. i,
Pk I , 124, t. 4, f. I a— d {1804) ; Bot. Tasch. 85 (1807). S c h k u h r Deutsch. kr. gew.
P. 11', 23, t. 10 (1810). R o e h l . Deutsch. Fl. ill, 39 (1813). B r id . Mant. 11 (i8ig) ; Bry.
univ. i, 58 (1826). N e e s H s c h . Bry. germ, i, 1S4, t. 12 , f. 29 (1823).
Ancectangiuin trich. S c h w a e g . Suppl. I, P. I, 33, t . 10 (18 1 1 ) .
Grimmia trich. Eng. Bot. t. 2563 (1813).
Weissia trich. H o o k . T a y . Musc. br. 45, t. 15 (1S18). G r a y Nat. arr. br. pl i, 730
(1821). H u e b e n . Musc.germ. 138 (1833). H o o k . Br. Fl. ii, 2r (1833). M a c k . Fl. hib.
P. 2, 14 (1836).
Braehydontium trichodes Fììrne. in Flora X, P. II, Beil. I, p. 37 (1827). M i l d e Bry.
siles. 89 {1869).
Brachyodus trichodes F u e n r . op. c. p. 112, et xii, P. II, 594 (1829). N e e s H s c h . Bry.
gerrn. 11, P. II, 3, t. 25 (1831). B r . S c h . Bry. eur. f. 33— 6, Mon. 3, t. i (1846).
C. M u e l l . Syn. i, 416 (1849). W i l s . Bry. br. 53, t. 14 (1855). S c h im p . Syn. 117
{i860), et 2 ed. 132 ,(1876). B e r k . Handb. br, m. 289, t. 24, f. 3 (1863). D e N o t .
Epil. 667 (1869). H o b k . Syn. br. m. 36 (1873). J u r a t z . Laubm. Oesterr.— ung. 71
(1882).
Autoicous ; plants gregarious, minute, very slender. L e a v e s
erecto-patent, lan ceo late , th e nerve excurrent in a semiterete slightly
channelled subula; areolation quadrato-hexagonal above, rectangulo-
hexagonal a t base. Capsule oblong, cylindric, narrowed at base, indistin
c tly striate, when old p licate, leptodermous, pale brown ; seta pale,
slender, tw isted to th e right below and to th e le ft above when dry ;
ca lyp tra rea ching h a lf down capsule, conical, split into 3 5 lobes ;
annulus broad, o f 3 series o f large cells, separating in fragments ; lid
conic, red a t base with a stra ight subulate beak ; te e th i 5, v ery irregular,
lanceolate, truncate, o f 2— 5 joints, perforated, pale, smooth ; spores
small, pale. Male infl. on a short radical branch, gemmaceous, bracts
broad, ovate, neiweless.
H ab.— W et sandstone rocks. Fr. 4.
Ben Buy and Ben Nevis (Rcy. C. Siiih/i). Greenfield, Yorks. {Hobson 1835)! Henfield
and Black down, Sussex {Borrer) \ Todmorden [Nowell 1849)! Park quarry,
Castle Howard {Baker 1858) ! ! Tebay {Barnes 1868) ! Alderley edge, Cheshire [Whitehead
1863)'. ! Bolton and Ainsworth (Sc/ioie^eW 1861) ! Grayrigg forest, Westmoreland
[Stabler \888) \ Fern, Brechin [Fergusson 1868)! Westward, Cumbd. [Rev. li. Wood
1880)! ! Near Lough Bray (rnyloi-). Kelly’ s Glen, Dublin (Moore 1863).
Subf. 4. D IC R A N EÆ . Plants small, or tall and robust; leaves
lanceolate, often falcato-secund and serrated, glossy, smooth or sometimes
papillose ; cells narrow and elongate above, those at the basal angles
larger, vesicular, colored or pellucid. Capsule often subcylindric and curved,
hd rostrate, teeth of per. i 5, solid, lanceolate, trabeculate, usually cleft or
perforated in the divisural line, rarely wanting.
g. B L IN D IA B r . S c h .
Bry. eur. f. 33— 36 (1846).
Plants densely cæspitant, dichotomous, fastigiate ; leaves quinque-
faidous, lanceolate-subulate, nerved, smooth, cells narrow, quadrate
above, linear a t base, with large, colored, ves icular angular cells.
C a lyp tra dimidiate-cucullate ; capsule immersed or exserted, sub-
spherical w ith a turgid neck, pachydermous. Peristome none or simple,
teeth 16, lan ceolate, remotely jointed, slender, smooth, cartilaginous.
D e r iv .— A fte r pa stor Blind o f Münster.
C lavis to th e S p e c ie s .
Dwarf. Capsule immersed, gymnostomous.
Taller. Capsule exserted, peristomate.
ccpspiticia.
acuta.
I . RLINDIA CkESPITICIA (Schwaeg.) Lindb.
A u to ic o u s ; leaves oblong, subulate, entire with hyaline points.
Capsule immersed, gymnostomous. (T. X r ’ I I , E.)
S y n .— Anocciangium ccespitlcium S c h w a e g r . in S c h r a d . neu Jour, iv, 13 , t. II, A (1801); Suppl. 1» P. I , '35, t. 12 (iS ii). F u n c k Moost. 7, t. 5 {1S21). H o p p . H o r n s c h . Pl. cr. Dec. i
( 18 17 ).
W e b . M oh r Bot. Tasch. 77 et 453 (1807). S c h k u h r Deutsch. Kr.
o-ew. 28, t. I I , c. (1810). Eng. Bot. t. 2778. H o o k . br. fi. ii, 6 {1833). H u e b e n . Musc.
germ. 57 (1833). D e N o t . Syll. 2S8 (183S).
Sc/«sriif/uw B r id . Mant. 21 (1819); Bry. un. i, 119 (1827). N e e s PIo r n s c h . Bry.
germ, i, 94, t. 8, f. 2 (1S23).
Stylostcgiwncccsp.BiL. S c h . Bry. eur. f. 33—36, p. 3, t. i (1S46). Synops. 118 (i860);
2 ed. 130 (1876). H a r tm . Sk. Fl. R .a b e n h . Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, P. 3, 131 (1848). W i l s .
Bry. br. 56, t. 38 (1855). B e r k . Plandb. br. m. 287 (1863). D e N o t . Epil. Bri. ital. 657
(1869). H o b k . Syn. br. m. 38 (1S73). J u r a t z . Laubm. Oesterr.— ung. 73 (18S2).
Blindia Stylostcghim C. M u e l l . Synops. i, 345 (1849).
Blindia ceespiticia L i .nd b . M us c . Scand. 25 (1879).