196 ADDITIONS TO OUR MOSS FLORA. 
Has. On the mortar of oki walls, and — on calcareous rock, 
in the Mediterranean region; wall of a nal bridge near Hatton, 
Warwick, June, 1872 (J. Bagnall). This interesting addition to our 
Moss flóra precisely accords with Italian specimen 
Sect. I.—EUGRIMMIA. 
s ending in a hair point. Theca plicate, exserted on a curved 
pedicel; pim multifid at base, or with a single cleft at zide 
6. G. orbicularis, B. and S. 7. G. pulvi inata (L.). 8. G. Schultzi 
sare G. decipiens € 
G. subsquarrosa, Wilso , MS, Dr. B. White in Trans. Bot. Soc. 
Edin. vol, ix. p..142 (1868). (PI. CXXIV. Fig. 1.) 
- . Dioicous, in lax tufts, dull dark green above, fuscous at base. Stem 
one-third to three-quarters of an inch high, erect, repeatedly dichotomonss 
the branches short, a little curved, turgid. Leaves erect and app ssed . 
when dry, patent and somewhat squarrose ae moist, the k; west 
muticous, from an ovate base, gradually lanceolate, upper lon r and 
extended. into a denticulate hair point a quarter to half iength " anim, 
complicato-carinate above, nerve strong, margin recurved; ce t base 
quadrate, Male flow er near the apex of a branch, perigonial bracts short, 
ovate, acute, laxly areolate. The fruit is reported to resemble that of G. 
trichophylla. 
Has. On rocks, Hill of Kinnoul and Balthayock, Perth, 1864 (Dr. 
B. White). Moncrieff Hill, Perth (Dr. Stirton). Arthur's Seat and 
Braid Hills, Edinburgh. Dumbreck, near Bowling, in fruit (Dr. 
Stirton). Mr. Fergusson sends a small dense fuscous form under the 
name G. edin i 
10. G. robusta Fergusson, M : } ilson, MS. (PI. 
CXXIV F ; gu S. G. ambigua, W ( | 
: Dicieous in hans loosely cohering tufts, black — e Ape) and 
. hoary at top. ` Stem aon OR fastigiate, soft, naked a Leaves 
appressed when dry, erecto-patent when moist, lowest sor pu muticous 
from a slightly Fa édiiqin ovate base becoming lanceolate, upper onger, 
gradually tapering into a nearly smooth hair point one- = «i half 
length of lamina ; keeled at back with the strong nerve, margi rve 
in lower half ; cells quadrate incrassate, those at centre of base dor ; 
ted, above minute e irregular in outline, a single row at the 
yalı 
archegonia, the rt el bracts resembling the upper stem leaves, but 
distriet we hope ma to the di ly resem 
discovery of its fruit closely 
bles Schultzii, which, however, wr a spinulose hair-point, and the 
cells larger and more sinuose ; and also G. commutata, in which the base 
of leaf e and more contracted, with its central cells narrower and 
more elongated.* 
* Ina eter just recive fom Prot Lindberg, he says, “I am 
robusta from G. decipiens (Schultz), G. Sohail dor gino 
