Tortula.-} APL O PERI ST O M I. 59 



Bryum steUatum. Dicks. PL Crypt. Fasc. 2. p. 6. (without the 

 synonyms}. 



Barbula agraria. Hedw. St. Cr. v. 3. t. 6. Schwaegr. Suppl. v. 1. 

 p. 129. Schultz, in Nov. Act. Cas. v. 11. p. 199. t. 32. f. 4. Brid. 

 Meth. p. 88. 



B. stellata. Brid. Meth. p. 88. 



B. domestica. Richard Mss. Brid. Meth. p. 89. Schultz, 1. c. p. 

 200. t. 32. f. 5. 



B. pallens. Brid. Meth. p. 88. 

 HAB. Scotland. Mr. Dickson. 



This minute plant, which has very much the delicacy of 

 structure and reticulation of the leaves of T. cuneifolia, has 

 been found only by Mr. Dickson in Britain, "ad aggeres et 

 rivulorum margines Scotiae." We have compared some original 

 specimens of Mr. Dickson with the West Indian Barbula 

 agraria, sent by the younger Hedwig to Mr. Turner, and we 

 find them to coincide in every particular ; a point indeed al- 

 ready determined by the author of the Muscologia Hibernica. 

 This, then, (unless Mr. Dickson should, by some accident, have 

 mistaken a foreign specimen for one gathered in Scotland, 

 which we cannot help suspecting,) appears to be one of the few 

 instances of a plant of the tropics having been found in so 

 northern a region. 



11. T. cuneifolia ; stem scarcely any, leaves very broad obovate 

 slightly concave pellucid the nerve running out into rather 

 a strong mucro, capsule oblong, lid with a short beak, (cilise 

 of the peristome united at the very base). (TAB. XII.) 



Tortula cuneifolia. Turn. Muse. Hib. p. 51. Smith, Fl. Brit, p] 

 1257. Engl Bot. t. 1510. Am. Disp. Muse. p. 39. 

 Bryum cuneifolium. Dicks. St. Crypt. Fasc. 3. 

 Barbula Dicksoniana. Schultz, in Nov. Act. Acad. Cces. v. 11. p. 

 224. t. 34. /. 33 Dill. Muse. t. 45. / 15. 



HAB. On banks and in fields; particularly common in 

 Devonshire, especially near Torquay and the hilly 

 country about Tor-point. 



Foreign authors appear to have no knowledge of this plant, 

 which is one of the most distinct in the genus. 



* * * Leaves muticous. 

 12. T. tortuosa; stem elongated branched, leaves patent linear- 



