GYMNOSTOMUM luteolum.
Yellowish Beardless-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
Gen. Char. Caps, without a fringe. Lid deciduous.
Veil separating entire from the base.
Spec. Char. Stem branched, tufted. Leaves lanceolate,
concave, keeled. Capsule oblong. Lid hemispherical,
pointless.
Syn. Gymnostomum luteolum. Sm. FI. Brit. 1163.
G. æstivum. Hedw. Sp. Muse. 32. t. 2. ƒ . 4—7.
SENT by the Rev. H. Davies from Wales. Mr. Dickson,
Mr. Turner and Mr. Hooker assure us it is common on the
mountains of Scotland. It has been taken for the Linnsean
Bryurn cestivum, which is Dillenius’s t. 47. f. 36, referred in
FI. Bril, to G. curvirostrum; but Mr. Eagle, who has accurately
studied the subject, and who we hope will illustrate it,
thinks all the three are distinct.
The present is certainly distinct enough from our G. ceru-
ginosum, t. 2200. The foliage is of a more yellow cast, though
not much differing in shape, but much more incurved and
twisted when dry. The fruitstalk was found by Mr. J. D.
Sowerby to have a very remarkable scaly sheath at its base,
like a Hypnum. The capsule is ovate and elongated, not bellshaped,
of a pale brown. Lid essentially different, in being
merely convex, with a minute protuberance, like the boss of
a shield, not elongated or awlshaped.
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