POTTIOIDEAE. BARBULA. 631 
longo - ovata rotundata, nervo crasso rubro in aristam 
longiusculam crassam  hyalinam  denticulatam producto, 
margine revoluta basi e cellulis amplis laxis pellucidis 
inanibus dein fragilibus utrinque marginis plus minus 
massa grisea repletis dein firmioribus inanibus veluti 
limbata, superne grossiuscule areolata haud opaca mollia 
grosse papillosa; theca in ped. longo crasso rubro flexuoso 
erecta cylindrica curvula elongata, operculo conico - subu- 
lato acuto, annulo duplici, perist. longe tubuloso pluries 
contorto dein dissoluto. 
Barbula Mülleri Br. et Sch. Br. Eur. 13 — 16. p. 44. t, 28, — 
Syntrichia Mülleri Brach in Musc. Müller. Sardois. 
Patria. Ad truncos arborum et ad rupes Sardiniae, 
Siciliae, Italiae merid. ad Promontorio del Gargano, ubi 
1847 legit Rabenhorst et Hispaniae, ubi in Sierra Ne- 
vada Pyrenaeorum ad Guéjar de la Sierra legit W. P. 
Sch. 5. Jul. 1847. 
Paraphyses longae clavatae. — A B. rurali subaf- 
fini notis cursive impressis facile discernibilis. 
~ 77. B. mollis Br. et Sch. (in Musc. Abys. Schimp. 
No. 467.); hermaphrodita; dense cespitosa breviuscula 
subuncialis subgracilis fuscescens, ramis brevibus appres- 
sis dichotoma; folia caulina erecto-appressa vix torta, 
madefacta erecto- patentia arcte imbricata, oblongo-ovata 
obtusiuscula v. oblongo- acuminata , nervo crasso rubro in 
pilum hyalinum longum sublaevem producto, margine di- 
stincte revoluto integerrimo , basi e cellulis laxis longiuscule 
hexagonis fere erythrodermibus pellucidis teneris superne 
parvulis opacis tenuissime papillosis areolata, perich. ex- 
terna basi latissima laxissime reticulata longe acuminata 
pilifera, intimum multo brevius ubique tenerrimum pel- 
lucidum; theca in ped. longo stramineo erecta, cylindra- 
ceo-oblonga curvula fuscidula, operc. conico -subulato 
subobliquo, annulo composito, perist. longo in membr. 
longe tubulosa parum contorto. 
Patria. Abyssinia, ad rupes madidas montis Bachit: 
W. Schimper, 14. Aug. 1838. 
