H Y P N U M Schreberi.
Schreberian Feather-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
Gen. Char. .Caps, ovate-oblong, from a lateral scaly
sheath. Outer fringe o f 16 teeth, dilated at the base1
inner a variously-toothed membrane. Veil smooth.
Spec. Char. Stem pinnated, slightly compressed.
Leaves elliptical, concave, slightly pointed, ribless.
Lid conical, with a little straight point.
Syn. Hypnum Schreberi. JVillden. Berolin. 325. Sm.
FI. Brit. 1315. Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 4. 18. Turn.
Muse. Hib. 176.
H. purum. Ehrh. Crypt. 311. Huds. 504, j3.
JVith. 863, var. 2. Hull. 273, var. 2.
H . cupressiforme tenuius et compressius. Dill.
Muse. 312. t. 4 0 ./. 47.
H. longum erectum, foliis angustis caulibus appressis.
Raii Syn. 83.
SEN T from the New Forest, Hants, by C. Lyell, Esq., in
April 1806. It grows in shady moist places, producing
capsules but rarely. Being very like H. purum, t. 1599, it
has perhaps been generally passed by as that species, and even
some able botanists have esteemed it a variety only. It differs
clearly however in being more slender and delicate, of a paler
colour, and more compressed in the stem and branches. The
leaves are more loosely imbricated, narrower, being of an
elliptic-lanceolate figure, bluntish with more or less of a small
point, not so much inflated, and quite destitute of a rib even
at the base. The lid of the capsule moreover is shorter, with
a small straight, not curved, point.