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Ht/pnum.] MUSCI-PLEUROCAItri-PERISTOMI. 95
below the summit, capsule oblong curved and cernuous, lid
conical. Hedw. St. Cr. v. 4. i. 26. Turn. Muse. Hib.p. 196. Fl.
Brit. p. 1333. E. Bot. t. 1569. Hobs. Br. Mosses, v. 1. n. 94.
Drum. Muse. Scot. v. 2. n.84. Muse. Brit. ed. 2. p. 188. t. 21.—
H. filicinum, Schwaegr. Suppl. v. 1. P. II. p. 297. Dill. Muse.
t. 36. f. 19.
Wet places, particularly in a calcareous soil. Fr. May.—Though
often confounded with //. filicinum, this may he distinguished by its
larger size, much less rigid stems and leaves, and its paler green colour.
The leaves, too, for want of the excurrent rigid nerve, are disposed to
be more curved and to become twisted when dry.
B. Leaves destitute of a nerve, or furnished with two very
indistinct ones at the base.
68. H. scorpioides, Linn, (scorjrion Feather-Moss); leaves secund
broadly ovate ventricose obtuse somewhat apiculate entire
nerveless or obscurely 2-nerved at the base, capsules oblongoovate
curved cernuous. Linn. Sp.Pl.p. 1592. Hedw. Sp. Muse,
p. 295. Schwaegr. Suppl. v. 2. P. II. p. 293. t. 95. Turn. Muse.
IIib. p. 187. Fl. Brit. p. 1326. E. Bot. t. 1039. Hobs. Br.
3Iosses, v. 2. n. 12. Drum. Muse. Scot. r. 2. n. 85. Muse. Brit,
ed. 2. p. 188. t. 27.
Bogs, common. Fr. March.—This, which may rank among the
largest of the British mosses, is at once distinguished from its affinities
by its broad and nerveless leaves. In habit, it is allied to H. aduncum.
69. H. Silesidnum, Beauv. (Sifesia?i Feather-Moss); leaves
loosely imbricated secund narrow lanceolate acuminate serrated
nerveless or very obscurely 2-nerved at the base, capsule
subcylindrical erecto-cernuous, lid conical obtuse. Beauv.
Prodr. d\Fth. p. 70. Web. et Mohr, FL Cr. Germ. p. 343.
E. Bot. t. 2016. Schwaegr. Suppl. v. 1. P. II. p. 287. t. 94.
Muse. Brit. ed. 2. p. 189. /. 27.
On soil, in the clefts of rocks, mountains of Scotland, frequent, Fr.
May.— Allied to //. cupressiforme t but much smaller, of more straggling
growth, with more Berated, narrower and le>s falcate leaves, and a shorter
lid to the capsule. In some respects, it approaches //. pulchellum.
Frequently, the serratures occupy the whole margin from the bast
the extremity.
70. \\. cupn.s.sijiirmi , Linn. ( ri/pn 88-1 ttti >l I\. 290. Hobs. Br. Mourn, v. 1.
n. !>o. Dram. Mas, Scot. >. 2. ". B6.— //. nitjro-viride. Diehs.—
Turn. Muse. Hib.p.\9S. F. Bbfct.l860«— ZHB. Muse. L 37./ 23,
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