140 ON THE ALOINA SECTION OF THF GENUS TORTULA. 
were at that time included in the same. By the time, however, that 
the second edition of the “ Muscologia” appeared, in 1827, we find 
that Hooker and Greville had already, in Brewster’s “Journal 
Science ” (1824), distinguished from the original 7. rigida two other 
species, their 7. enervis and T. brevirostris, both figured in the sup- 
plementary tab. ii. of the ‘“‘Muscologia.” The first, 7. enervis, 18 
described with its operculum thus: ‘lid conico-acuminate, rather 
shorter than the oblong capsule,” and with Sir W. Hooker's accus 
tomed fidelity to nature, the figure gives a good representation of the 
operculum with its slender beak as usual in 7. aloides, quite different 
oo of 7. rigida, Schultz, to which 7. enervis has always beet 
referred. 
The second species, 7. brevirostris, may have been figured from 
the before-mentioned Swedish specimens, a portion of which 1 have; 
but the importance of the relative length of the operculum not being 
et duly estimated, the description says: ‘lid conical, scarcely 
species. . 
Bri Mr. Holmes, to whom is due the credit of having restored a 
ritish Flora this some-time lost moss, received his specimens 
a. I f T. evi rostrs 
? no. 136, very fine specimens of +- . 
only are preserved in a copy I mete (rite Sir J. Richards 
T. brevirostris; from Christiania. It may be ™ . 
T. brevirostris aud 7. rigida, Schultz, are more like ie = 
other than they are ae ambigua or T. aloides, the distinction 2 
: more recently discovered. a 
Wiitiioouns oat that Hooker and Cvesille possessed ye pare 
in the “ Museo! apes “oe least doubt after looking 8° 1, rai: 
y had the species we now &*" 
