TORTULACE.E.] 25! \_MollicL. 



accrescent upward, very fragile and breaking off in the upper part, from 

 a short erect base, patent when moist, arcuato-incurved when dry, the 

 wings inflexo-complicate, glossy and shining on the back, lineal-lanceo- 

 late, at apex more or less longly acuminate, or suddenly almost apiculate, 

 concave, the margin plane and subundulate, finely crenulate with 

 projecting cells, base subvaginant, with lax elongated hyaline cells, 

 which are small and run upward and outward to the margin, the other 

 cells very minute, rounded quadrate, green, papillose on both sides ; 

 nerve stout, pale green, finally brownish, prominent on the back, excurrent 

 in a short rrmcro. Perich. bracts small, lanceolate-subulate, with excur- 

 rent nerve, seta purple at base, passing to yellow above, caps, oblongo- 

 cylindric, pale brown with a red mouth, faintly sulcate when old, 

 annulus indistinct, lid ^ length of caps, obliquely rostrate, pale red, 

 teeth of per. very short and irregular, truncate, yellow, papillose. Male 

 infl. minute, gemmiform, in the axils of the upper leaves ; bracts 3 or 4, 

 broad, oblong, with a narrow ligulate upper half, nerve vanishing. 



HAB. Calcareous rocks and walls. 



Carnelly and St. Michael's chapel, Torquay (Borrer). St. Vincent's rocks and Durdham 

 downs (Thwaites 1843) ! ! Greenaleigh, Minehead (Miss Gifford 1868) ! ! Penzance 

 (Curnow) ! ! I. of Purbeck, Plymouth and Corfe castle (Holmes 1865) ! ! Lynmouth, 

 Durlestone head and Peveril point, Swanage (Holmes 1883) ! ! Dovedale at the opening 

 of Halldale (Holmes 1875) ! ! Grange and Arnside (Boswell 1873) ! ! Cheddar (Eos-well 

 1873) ! ! Mendip hills (Boswell 1880) ! ! Shaugh bridge, Devon (Holmes 1884). 

 Colvend, Scotland (Cash and McAndrew 1883) ! ! Ruins at Innisfallen (Stewart and 

 Holt 1885) ! ! O'Donoghue's Prison, Lough Leane g (Holt 1885) ! ! Mouse island, 

 Killarney (Holt 1885). Whitbarrow, Westmoreland (Barnes 1871) ! ! 



Leaves longer and broader than in M. brachydontia, all circularly arcuato- 

 incurved when dry, and glossy at the back. The fruit has only been found 

 at Angouleme, in France, by M. Philibert in 1867, for some of whose speci- 

 mens I am indebted to the kindness of M. Husnot. Some botanists have 

 been disposed to refer this moss to Mollia tortuosa, but they are quite distinct, 

 and the glossy stiff little cushions of M. nitida have an aspect so peculiar that 

 it may always be identified by the naked eye alone. 



22. MOLLIA INCLINATA (Hedw. fit.) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; densely tufted. Leaves elongate, lineal, undulate, suddenly 

 pointed, mucronate with the excurrent nerve. Caps, oval-oblong, cer- 

 nuous ; peristome twisted. (T. XXXVII, B.) 



SYN. Barbula nervosa BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. I, 199 p.p. (1798), Mant. 95 p.p. t. 19 (1819). 



Tortula inclinata HEDW. FIL. in WEB. MOHR Beitr. i, 123, t. 5 (1805). HOOK. GREV. in 

 BREWST. Edin. J. i, 298 (1824). DE NOT, in Mem. ace. Torin. xl, 322 (1838), Syllab. 

 181 (1838), Muse. ital. I, 65, t. 33 (1862), Epil. bri. ital. 558 (1869). LINDB. De Tort. 



B 



Tortula nervosa BRID. Sp. muse. I, 262 p.p. (1806). 

 Tortula curvata SCHLEICH. Cat. pi. helv. 30 (1807). 



