II. ALTERATIONS OF NOMENCLATURE, AND SYNONYMS.
No. 54. W. truncicola De Not. =
Dicranum montanum. Hedw. “Having shown the specimen to Prof. Lindberg during his recent visit, he informed me that he was under the impression that Juratzka had referred it to Dic. montanum; and on comparing the two I find they are truly identical. The species is, however, none the less an addition to our flora.... its place will be next to D. strictum.” [Dr. Braithwaite, in Grevillea i., p. 75.]
No. 71. Dicranum polycarpum. β. strumiferum = Oncophorus strumifer. Brid.
ONCOPHORUS. Brid.
L. spreading flexuose from a sub-decurrent base; caps. cernuous incurved, neck shortly and widely strumose, not striate.
O. strumifer. Brid. “This is again restored to the rank of a species, as it differs from O. polycarpus (Dicranum) in the caps. being more or less cernuous, constantly strumose at base, with a compound annulus, and in the leaves having papillæ only on the upper surface.” [Dr. Braithwaite, Jour. Bot. VIII. 228.]
84. Dicranum heteromallum. δ. sericeum.
Add as a synonym, Dicranodontium sericeum. Schp.
85. D. Starkii. β. molle =
D. arcticum. Schp. Its general appearance better distinguishes it from D. Starkii than its microscopical characters. It is quite erect, growing in large loose patches, stems 3–4in., elastic, very robust; foliage of a fine purplish brown colour; leaf wider below, and more suddenly contracted upwards, with a thinner nerve; fruits earlier. [Hunt. l. c. p. 321.]
Ben-mac-dhui and Ben Nevis.
92. D. circinnatum. Wils.
Add as synonyms Dicranodontium aristatum. Schp. D. asperulum. Mitt.
96. D. palustre. Brid. Dr. Braithwaite points out in Grevillea I., 109, that La Pylaie’s specimens of this moss (Bridel Bryol. Univ. I. 814) belong to Campylopus flexuosus, as shewn by De Notaris in his Epil. Bryol. Ital.; and that hence the name D. Bonjeanii, De Not. is to be preferred. The synonymy would then stand:—
96. D. Bonjeanii. De Not. Syllab. Muse. 213 (1838); Muell. Synopsis I., 369 (1849). D. palustre. Bry. Eur. and Bry. Brit., p. 79 (non Bridel.) D. undulatum. Turn. Musc. Hib.
The following amended diagnosis of this species is from the same author (in Grev. i., 109):—“Seta solitary; st. erect; l. more or less erecto-patent, straight, from a broad linear flat base, broadly oblong-lanceolate, gradually narrowed into a strap-shaped point, tapering into an acute apex, lightly undulate above, canaliculate; margin acutely serrate above, teeth uniform in shape and direction; nerve very narrow, vanishing below apex, smooth at back; basal cells short quadrate, brownish, above elongate hexagonal or parallelogramic, uppermost elliptic-oblong.”
361. E. minimum, Hunt. is now ascertained to be Splachnobryum Wrightii, Muell., and can hardly be considered as indigenous, “for the spores have most probably been mixed with soil attached to some exotic, and thus accidentally scattered on the wall where it was found.”—[Braithwaite.]
SPLACHNOBRYUM. C. Muell. Verhand. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 1869. p. 501.
“Calyp. dimidiate, enclosing the whole theca and embracing spirally the upper part of the seta, cleft at side, smooth, fugacious. Perist. simple, arising below mouth of caps., teeth 16 very narrow, linear-lanceolate acicular, with the articulations remote. Columella immersed. Dioicous, male fl. gemmaceous, without paraphyses. Plants small slender, with distant spathulate leaves.”
S. Wrightii. Muell. l. c. (Entosthodon minimus, Hunt. l. c. Amblyphyllum Hibernicum, Lindb. MS.)
“St. ¼–⅓in. simple sub-flexuose, pale red, slightly radiculose; l. bright green distant (base narrow, slightly decurrent), patent, flattish, obovate or spathulate, rounded at apex, margin reflexed below, entire or minutely serrulate in male, crenulate above in female plant, nerve thick, prominent at back, vanishing below apex; cells large lax, pellucid, smooth, incrassate, rhombo-rectangular at base, rhomboidal above, smaller and nearly circular at margin; caps. erect, obconical at base, sub-cylindrical, wide-mouthed, pale brown; seta slender, twisted to left; lid conical acute.” [Dr. Braithwaite, l. c.]