Page:Books from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (IA synopsisofbritis00hobk).pdf/116



γ. minus. st. short; l. shorter, less spreading; per. l. less striking; calyp., caps., and seta smaller: dry heaths.

γ. β. fastigiatum. st. branched fastigiate; l. as in var. γ. Very dry heaths.

283. Hedw. St. 1-6in.; l. reflexed, spreading, linear-lanceolate, almost bristle-pointed, margin entire, except a few teeth at apex, much inflexed from middle upwards, somewhat spinulose at back; caps. roughish, horizontal when dry, on a seta 2in. or more long; calyp. large.

Heaths.

284. Menzies. (P. juniperum. β. strictum, Bry. Brit.) "St. more slender, densely matted, branched, closely interwoven with whitish tomentum; l. straight, erecto-patent, imbricate when dry, shorter and narrower, pale glaucous green; caps. shorter cuboid, acutely angled, rufous orange; calyp. brownish or white." [Dr. Braithwaite, Jour. of Bot.,, 225.]

Mountain moors, common.

285. Schreb. St. about 1in. simple; l. lower short appressed, upper much longer, lanceolate, prolonged into roughish hair points, margins entire inflexed; caps. faintly angular, almost ovate, on a short seta; calyp. long, reddish.

Dry heaths.

46. TIMMIA.

286. Hedw. St. 2-3in.; l. linear-lanceolate from a reddish-brown sheathing dilated base, margins strongly serrate; caps. ovate pyriform, inclined, striate