2907.
BRYUM Mnioides.
Mnium-like Bryum.
CRYPTOGAMIA Muaci.
Gen. Char. Fruitstalks lateral. Peristome double :
outer one of 16 teeth; inner, a membrane cut
into 16 equal segments, and usually with intermediate
filiform processes. Calyptra dimidiate.
Spec. Char. Stems densely tufted, erect. Leaves
spreading, roundish-obovate, blunt, the margin
composed of elongated cellules, nerve ceasing
below the point. Capsule pendulous, roundish-
elliptical. Lid conical, with a short oblique beak.
Pistils and anthers united in the same flower.
Syn. Mnium pseudo-punctatum. Bruch and Schim-
per’s Remarks on Drummond's Musci Americani,
no. 253. in Bond. Journ. Bot. Dec. 1843.
B. punctatum. Hook. ibid.
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J. O Mr. John Nowell, an intelligent operative of Tod-
morden, the fortunate discoverer in Britain of Cinclidium sty-
gium, we also owe this exceedingly interesting addition to our
list of British Mosses, hitherto known only as a native of
North America. He sent it to us as a remarkable variety
of Bryum punctatum, and as such has known it for several
years, growing in wet boggy places on Stansfield Moor, near
Todmorden, ripening its capsules in March. It grows also
with the Cinclidium near the Malham Tarn.
This moss greatly resembles Mnium punctatum, but is less
robust, with more delicate foliage, and smaller capsules.
Stems erect, crowded, matted together with copious dark
purple rooting fibres, three inches in height, the fertile stems
producing innovations immediately below the uppermost or