The typification of the 10 Hedwig moss names that were desoribed under Dicranum Hedw., but iater associated with Dicranella Schimp. is considered herein. Dicranum orthocarpum Hedw. [= Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.] is found to have a satisfactory holotype. Lectotypes are designated for Dicranum cerviculatum Hedw. [= Dicranella cerviculata (Hedw.) Schimp.], Dicranum crispum Hedw. [= Dicranella crispa (Hedw.) Schimp.], Dicranum curvatum Hedw. [= Dicranella subulata (Hedw.) Schimp.], Dicranum interruptum Hedw. [= Dicranella heteromalla], Dicranum pusillum Hedw. [= Dicranella cerviculata], Dicranum schreberianum Hedw. [= Dicranella schreberiana (Hedw.) Hiif. ex H.A.Crum & L.E.Anderson], and Dicranum subulatum Hedw. [= Dicranella subulata], and the two names that were previously lectotypified are reviewed, Dicranum heteromallum Hedw. [= Dicranella heteromalla] and Dioranum varium Hedw. [= Dicranella varia (Hedw.) Schimp.]. Journal of Bryology 2013 VOL.35 NO. 4 275 Ellis and Price Type specimens for Hedwig's species of Dicranella (DIcranaceae) H.A.Crum & L.E.Anderson], and Dicranum subulatitm Hedw. [= Dicranella subulata]) required further consideration.Four of the species of Dicranella that are now attributed to Hedwig represent entities that had already been named by himself or other authorities prior to 1801 (i.e. D. cerviculatum, D. interruptum, D. pusillum, and D. schreberianum) and in Species muscorum frondosorum, Hedwig (1801) duly refers to these earlier names. The remaining four species, D. crispum, D. curvatum, D. orthocarpum, and D. subulatum were described by Hedwig as completely new to science.
Dicranum cerviculatum Hedw.Hedwig's validating description of D. cerviculatum (Hedwig, 1801) consists of three short diagnoses repeated verbatim from earlier accounts of the entity. These were written by himself (Hedwig, 1792), Dickson (1793), and Bridel (1798. The diagnosis, taken from Hedwig's earlier account, was based solely on a specimen from Sweden collected by Olof Peter Swartz (1760-1818). That in Dickson (1793), who cited Hedwig's taxon as a new eombination ''Bryum cerviculatum Dicks.', was based on a specimen from Hampstead Heath near London by an unknown collector. The diagnosis in Bridel (1798), which Bridel once again placed under 'Dicranum cerviculatum', was put together with reference to the two previously known Swedish and English (Hampstead Heath) collections only.