A Synopsis of the British Mosses / Containing Descriptions of All the Genera and Species, (With Localities of the Rarer Ones) Found in Great Britain and Ireland, Based Upon Wilson's "Bryologia Britannica," Schimper's "Synopsis," Etc.

by Charles C. P. Hobkirk

DIVISION II. PLEUROCARPI.

72. ANŒCTANGIUM. B. & S.

404. A. compactum. Schw. St. 1–4in. densely tufted, slender; l. short, lanceolate spreading from an erect base, acuminate, slightly serrulate near the base only, nerved to or beyond apex; caps. oval-oblong erect; lid long convex, with a slender oblique beak.

Crevices of moist alpine rocks. Autumn.

405. A. Hornschuchianum. Hoppe. “St. elongate cæspitose; l. linear-subulate from a dilated base, channelled, entire; caps. roundish-pyriform: lid rostrate.” Wils. “L. upper part of dilated base is always more or less distinctly crenate or serrulate, from thence to the apex entire.” W. Mitten, Jour. of Bot., vol. V., p. 329. [Mr. Mitten refers Dr. Taylor’s plant from Ireland to Tortula Hibernica, by which name it is described under that genus.]