GRIMMIACE^.J 94 [Weissia. 



Neckera ulophylla WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 236 (1807) 



Ulota crispa BRID. Mant. 112 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 299 (1826). HAMMAR Mon. Orth. 

 suec. 24 (1852). SCHIMP. Coroll. 41 (1855), Synops. 257 (1860), 2 ed. 304. BERK. 

 Handb. br. m. 229 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 168 (1869). DE NOT. Epil. bri. ital. 288 

 (1869). JURATZ. Laubm. oester.-ung. 196 (1882). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 162 

 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 152, t. 43 (1887). 



Autoicous; in dense rounded cushions, or rather lax and irregular 

 in outline, yellow green above, ferruginous at base, bearing old and young 

 capsules at the same time. Stems erect or decumbent at base, branched ; 

 leaves densely crowded, strongly curled and twisted when dry, patulous 

 when moist, from a concave ovate base, linear-lanceolate, the margin 

 recurved in the lower half, nerve yellow, reaching nearly to apex ; cells 

 at base rectangular, brown, the alar hyaline with thickened transverse 

 walls, those towards the nerve elongated, in oblique rows, upper rounded, 

 incrassate. Capsule exserted, leptodermous, oval, gradually attenuated, 

 in a long neck and strong scarcely twisting pedicel, 8-striate, contracted 

 below the wide orifice, younger ferruginous the old brown or straw- 

 coloured, after maturity and when dry, elongate fusiform, deeply 

 sulcate ; cells of the vittse in four rows, rufous ; lid hemispherical, long- 

 pointed ; teeth 8, bigeminate, pale, cilia 8, or rarely 16, narrowly lanceo- 

 late, of two rows of cells up to middle. Calyptra pale yellow, very rough, 

 campanulate. Male infl. lateral. 



HAB. On trees; common in subalpine districts. Fr. 5 6. 

 Var. (3. intermedia Schimp. 



Leaves longer,, with more numerous quadrate hyaline cells at basal 

 margin ; caps, more cylindric, not contracted below the mouth, less tapering 

 at base. 



SYN. Ulota crispitla ft, ambigiia SCHIMP. Synops. 258. 



Ulota intermedia SCHIMP. Synops. 2 ed. 305. JURATZ. Laubm. oest.-ung, 196. HUSN. 

 Muse. gall. 152, t. 43. 



HAB. Here and there with the typical form. 



Near Loch Lomond (Schimpcr 1868) ! Castle Howard (Spruce 1847) ! Dunoon (Shaw 

 1860) ! ! Wychwood forest, Stokenchurch and Bagley wood (Bosu'dl). Rosslin and 

 Skye (Boswell). Strome ferry (Dixon 1883). 



Var. y. crispula (Bruch) Hammar. 



In smaller tufts. Leaves narrow and shorter, more laxly areolate. Caps, 

 pale, leptodermous, oval-pyriform, with a long neck, when dry and empty, 

 short truncate urceolate, scarcely contracted below the mouth, the neck 

 suddenly contracted and plicate. 



SYK.Orthotrichiim crispum /?. minus SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 25. 



Ulota crisptila BRUCH Mss. BRID. Bry. Univ. i, 792 (1827). SCHIMP. Synops. 258. DE 

 NOT. Epil. 289. BERK. Handb. 230. MILDE 168. LESQ. JAMES 163. HUSN. Muse. 

 gall. 152, t. 43 . 



