TORTULACE^E.] 265 [Barbula. 



ceous, very slightly curved, leptodermous, glossy brown ; calyptra 

 subulate, prolonged below the lid, annulus indistinct ; lid purple, subu- 

 late, nearly as long as caps., peristome bright red, long, fragile, on a 

 very narrow basal membrane, many times twisted ; spores minute, 

 smooth. 



Male plant more branched, infl. terminal, bracts from a broad 

 concave base, narrowly lane., very faintly nerved. 

 HAD. Wet clay and sandy banks and walls ; common. Fr. 10 i. 

 Var. /3. brevicaulis (Schwaeg.) 



Stem short simple ; leaves crowded, patent, subundulate at margin ; 

 caps, shorter as also the lid and peristome. 



SYN. Barbula brevicaulis SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I, 126, t. 32. BRID. Mant. 92 ; Bry. univ. i, 



551. SCHULTZ. Recens. 210, t. 33, f. 20. 

 B. fallax var. brevicaulis SCHIMP. C. MUELL. WILSON, &c. 



HAB. Wet places. Hastings (Bovnv) \ 

 Var. y. brevifolia (Sm.) Schultz. 



More densely tufted, slender, fastigiate branched ; leaves shorter, ovato- 

 lanc., patulous from the middle, subrecurved ; caps, small, peristome shorter. 



SYN. Tortula brevifolia SM. Fl. brit. 1259. BRID. Sp. Muse. I, 254. 

 Barbula brevifolia BRID. Mant. 92 ; Bry. univ. i, 555. 



B. fallax var. brevifolia SCHULTZ Recens. 212, t. 33, f. 21, B. SCHIMP. C. MUELL. 

 WILSON, &c. 



HAB. Cheddar, Somerset (Boswell, 1873) ! Bearley, Warwick (Bagnall) \ \ 

 Buxton and Miller's dale (Holt, 1883) ! ! 



This common moss varies from % to 2 inches in height, and is always of 

 a brown or rusty tint ; a tuft of it in fruit has a very pretty appearance from 

 the neat capsules with long acutely pointed lids. 



6. BARBULA REFLEXA End. 



Dioicous ; leaves rufescent, ovato-lanceolate, incumbent when dry, 

 strongly recurved when wet, acutely carinate, margin reflexed below, 

 nerve vanishing. Caps, cylindric. (T. XXXIX, E.) 



SYN. Tortula reflexa BRID. Sp. muse. I, 255 (1806). BRAITHW. in SEEM. Journ. Bot. 1871, p. 



293, t. 120, f. 2. 



Barbula reflexa BRID. Mant. muse. 93 (1819). 

 B. fallax var. y. reflexa BRID. Bry. univ. i, 558 (1826). 



Schistidium ? recurvifolium WILS. MSS. SPRUCE in Ann. Mag. n. h. 2 ser. iii, 491 (1849). 

 Grimmia recurvifolia WILS. MSS. 



Tortula fallax var. 8. recurvifolia WILS. Bry. brit. 124 (1855). 

 Barbula recurvifolia SCHIMP. Coroll. Bry. eur. 141 (1855), Synops 170 (1860), 2 ed. 206. 



MITT. Journ. Linn. soc. i, Suppl. 34 p.p. (1859). MILDE Bry. siles. 121 (1869). 



JURATZ. Laubm. oesterr.-ung. 112 (1882). LESQ. JAMES Mosses N. Amer. 122 (1884). 

 Tortula recurvifolia BERK. Handb. br. m. 258 (1863). LINDB. De Tort. 250 (1864). 



DE NOT. Epil.bri. ital. 555 (1869). 



