— ME e 
à. Leaves, princ. the lower of stem, gen. sublingulate with 
long narrow base, us. obtusate; basal short-rectangular, upper 
rhomboidal. Us. dioecious. - 
41.B.eapillare L. 
Leaves gen. broad-limbate nearly entire and crowded, twisted 
when dry, us. green; limb. us. yellowish. Capsule us. red-brown. 
— On dry stones and old roofs princ. in lower districts. Eur. 
common. Sweden, Germany, Switzerl. Amer. »U. S.»: Lesq. 
et Jam. 
* B.torquescens Bruch. 
Leaves dark-green or brownish, more acuminate. Capsule 
dark brown. Sometimes synoecious or monoecious. — Eur. t. 
Germany, Switzerl.! France: Philibert. Engl: Holt. Greece: 
Orphanides. »Amer.»: Lesq. et Jam. 
* B.restitutum Notaris. 
Leaves finally. brown-red, entire obtuse; limb brown. Capsule 
dark. brown. — Zur, r| Switzerl. near Lugano! »Italy near 
Como»: Notaris. 
* B.ruraliforme Kindb. n. subsp. 
. Leaves brown-red strongly dentate subacute; limb brown. cu 
Shoot-leaves sometimes decurrent. Capsules unknown. Habit © 
of Barbula ruralis. — Amer, r. Can. Vane. isl: Macoun 1893: 
* B.erythroloma Kindb. n. subsp. ais 
Leaves purplish red acute nearly entire; limb rose-red. — 
Amer. r. Can. Vane. isl:.Macoun 1892. Bois 
* B.Haistii Schimper. ; : 7 
»Leaves small entire finally red; awn reddish. — Stone-walls r- 
Eur, Switzérl.»: Schimper, . | 
42.B.speirophyllum Kindb. bull. soc. bot. ital. 1895. ae m 
Differs from B. capillare: Leaves narrowly limbate distant - » 
decurrent gen. entire, flaccid when moist, corrugate not twisted $ 
when dry. —. Moist rocks. Eur. Sweden, Switzerl.! Amer. —— 
Can. Vance. isl: Macoun. MS 
b. Leaves, prince. those of stem, subovate-lanceolate with ae 
not or slightly narrowed base, often acuminate, not or slightly — 
twisted when dry; basal cells short-rectangular, upper rhom: 1 
boidal. -Dioecious. i — o 
43.B.Donii Greville. was 
- Leaves- nearly crowded and not decurrent, us. denticulate —— 
and broadly limbate. Upper shoot-leaves often rosulate. Cap?  - 
sule often very large.. Tufts green or brown. — Dry stopes 
in warmer distr. r. Eur. Italy: Levier; Arcangeli. Greece? - 
