TORTULACE^.J 276 [Barbula. 



HAB. Walls at Croydon (Dickson). Dublin (Stokes). Plymouth (Holmes) ! ! 

 Dromore, Down (Rev. C. H. Waddell) \ ! Otford, Kent (Holmes). 



Var. 8. microcarpa (Schultz). 



More slender ; leaves more crowded, shorter, patenti-recurved, caps, 

 small, oval, lid conico-subulate. 



SYN. Barbula microcarpa SCHULTZ Rec. t. 33, f. 18. BRID. Bry. univ. i, 561. 

 HAB. Baugh Fell, Yorks. (West, 1879) ! ! 



Var. e. obtusifolia (Schultz). 



More robust ; leaves crowded, shorter, broader, obtuse, very shortly 

 mucronate or muticous ; caps, narrowed, oblongo-cylindric. 

 SYN. Barbula obtusifolia BRID. Mant. go. SCHULTZ Rec. t. 32, f. 13. 

 HAB. Roadside banks. Miller's dale (Holt, 1882) ! ! 



Var. $. fastigiata (Schultz). 



Taller, repeatedly fastigiate branched ; leaves broader, softer, subundu- 

 late at margin. 



SYN. Barbula fastigiata SCHULTZ Rec. t. 33, f. 15. BRID. Bry. univ. i, 554. 

 HAB. Shore of L. Neagh, Ardmore, Armagh (Rev. H. W. Lett 1885) ! ! 



A plant of wide distribution, and as usual with such, subject to consider- 

 able variation ; it may however be generally recognized by the obtuse apicu- 

 late leaves with recurved margins, and thin-walled oblong capsule without 

 any annulus. In its very slender fragile peristome it resembles B. fallax. 



1 6. BARBULA MUCRONATA End. 



This was misplaced under Tovtulaai p. 218, its most natural position is 

 here next to B. unguiculata, and indeed it clearly forms a connecting link 

 between that species and Cindidottis. 



ADDENDUM TO TORTULA ZYGOTRICHIA. 

 TORTULA SUBERECTA Dvumm. 



Autoicous ; stems short, nearly simple. Leaves papillose, ovato- 

 lanceolate, the margin revolute, nerve excurrent in a subula. Caps, 

 cylindraceous, oblique, lid conico-rostellate ; peristome on a short basal 

 membrane. (T. XLI, E.) 



Svti.Tortula suberecta DRUMM. Muse. amer. n. 145 (1828). 



Desmatodon obliquus BR. SCHIMP. Bry. eur. fasc. 18-20, p. 10, t. 7 (1843). SCHIMP. 

 Synops. 161 (1860), 2 ed. 187. DE NOT. Epil. bri. ital. 575 (1869). JURATZ. Laubm. 

 oesterr.-ung. 132 (1882). LESQ. JAMES Mosses N. Amer. 115 (1884). HUSN. Muse. 

 gall. 94, t. 26 (1885). 



Trichostomum obliquum C. MUELL. Synops. i, 594 (1849). 



