concave base, subulate, smooth, quite entire at margin, nerve semiterete, 

 faint at base, running out into a terete papillose subula. Areolation at 

 apex very small, hexagono-quadrangular, larger at base, rectangular in 

 the middle, quadrate at margin. 



Perichsetium convolute, outer bracts oblongo-lanceolate, erecto- 

 patent, nerveless at base, broadly nerved at apex, inner convolute, 

 nerveless, elongate-oblong, shortly apiculate. Capsule oblong, brown, 

 short-necked. Male infl. an ovate bud, inner bracts broadly ovate, 

 nerveless. 

 HAS. Alpine rocks. Fr. 7-8. 



Dewerstone rocks, Dartmoor (Holmes) ! ! Falcon clints, Teesdale (Slater 1853) ! ! Hebden 

 bridge (Hunt 1864) ! ! Soccoth hill, Arrochar (McKinlay 1866) ! ! Grisedale, Cumber, 

 land (Baker 1867) ! ! Near Buttermere (Hunt) ! ! Pen-y-Ghent, Yorks.,and Tintwistle, 

 Cheshire (Whitehcad 1868) ! ! Pont Aberglaslyn (Wilson 1869) ! ! Caderldris (Pearson 

 1876) ! ! Tyn-y-Gros, Snowdon (Wild 1877) ! ! Dumyat, Stirling (Croall 1877) ! ! 

 Upper Lough Bray, Ireland (Moore).- Abergynalwyn (Whitehead 1879) ! ! 



Close as this stands to the next species it may readily be recognized by 

 the subulate point, composed apparently of the excurrent nerve, but which, 

 after treatment with caustic alkali, will be seen to have a border of a single 

 row of cells, which observed in the dry state by reflected light stand out as 

 papillae. 



4. A. ROTHII. Web. Mohr. 



Autoicous; in black tufts. Leaves divergent or secund, from an 

 ovate base, lanceolate, nerved ; the nerve flattened, thin, vanishing at 

 apex, with a more or less evident lamina quite to the point. (T. HA.) 



Sim.yuHgermannia rufcstris HUDS. Fl. Angl. 436, n. 22 (1762) ; et 2 ed. ii, 516, n. 23 (1778). 

 WITHER. Bot. Arr. Br. Veg. ii, 698, n. 28 (1776). LIGHTF. Fl. Scot, ii, 787, n. 21 (1777). 

 WEB. Spic. Fl. Gott. 154, n. 217 (1778). RETZ. Fl. Scand. Prod. 221 (1779). ROTH Fl. 

 Germ, i, 485, n. 28 (1788). LAICHARD. Veg. Eur. ii, 657 (1791). LILJEBL. Svensk. 

 Fl. 323 (1792). SCHRAD. Spic. Fl. Germ. 75 (1794). MURR. Syst. Veg. 803 (1798). 

 Andr. rupestris ROTH Neue Beytr. i, 234, excl. syn. (1802). WEB. f. in WEB. MOHR 

 Archiv. i, P. I, 125, t. IV, f. 2 (1804). WAHLENB. Fl. Lapp. 306, excl. syn. Eng. B. 

 (1812) ; et Fl. Suec. 2 ed. ii, 810 (1833). SWARTZ Summ. Veg. Scand. 58 (1814). Sw. 

 in LILJEBL. Svensk. Fl. 3 ed. 569 (1816). BRID. Mant. Muse. 206 (1819). WAHLB. Fl. 

 Oot 5, ob - " 2 ( I82 4)- FRIES St. Agr. Femsjon. 29 (1825). SCHIMP. Bry. Eur. vi, Mon. 

 21, 1. IX (1855) ; Syn. Muse. Eur. 667 (1869), et 2 ed. 819 (1876). SULL. Moss. Un. St. 

 S 3 n Br M HAR ' Skand ' FL 7 ed. (1858). MILDE Bry. Siles. 257 (1869). HOBK. 



Andr. RothiiWEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 386, t. n, f. 7.9 (1807). HOOK. Tr. Lin. Soc. X, 



393, t. 31, f. 3 (1810). Eng. Bot. t. 2162 excl. syn. Smithii (1810). SCHW^LG. Suppl. I, 



i, 43, et II P. i, 19, t . 106 (1811-23). SMITH Comp. Fl. Brit. 3 ed. 163 (1818). 



[OOK. TAYL. Muse. Brit. 2, t. 8 (1818). HARTM. Skand. Fl. 380 (1820). HOOK. Fl. 



2 



. - _ " RID - ar y- Univ. n, 730 (1827). SWARTZ Adnot. Bot. 182 (1829); 



Dan t. 2125, f. i (1834). HOOK. Br. Fl. ii, 5 (1833). MACKAY Fl. Hib. P. 2, 7 

 (1836) GAROVAG Bry Austr. exc. 10 (1840). ANGSTR. Disp. Muse. 23 (1842). 

 FRIES Summ. Veg Scand. 97 (1846). RABENH. Deutsch. Krypt. Fl. ii, P. 3, 72 (1848). 

 C. MUELL. Syn. Muse, i 9 (1849). THEDEN. in Nya Bot. Not. 1849, 80. ZETTERST. 

 Mon Andr. Sc 29 (1855) BERK. Handb. Br. M. 310, t. 2, f. 7 (1863). DE NOT. Epil. 

 Bnol. Ital. 748 (1869). LINDB. in Journ. Lin. Soc. xi, 460 (1870). 

 Jungerm. Rothii HUEB. Hepat. Germ. 304 (1834). 



