ON THE ALOINA SECTION OF THE GENUS TORTULA. 141 
rostris, in view as well as ourselves, and there is no necessity to follow 
Schimper and abrogate their claim to the discovery of the species, or 
to consider the ‘ Bryologia Europea ”’ Moss a discovery of more 
recent date. Dr. Greville’s specimens being in part TZ. rigida, 
Schultz, has also another bearing which must er be overlooked, for 
. if Hooker and Greville mistook 7. rigida Schultz for British 
; examples of their 7’. brevirostris, it can hardly be possible to suppose 
t their 7. enervis described and figured at the same time and place 
could be eaeely the same species, yet this supposition has been 
generally accepted ! 
4 _ Previous to the second edition of the ‘ Muscologia, ” Schultz, in 
4 d figure 
; been appended, but which wenow know wasnot identical with Hedwig’s, 
: oes it agree with Hudson’s description, for it has a capsule which 
always tapers towards its mouth. ‘This species was not, therefore, an 
species re-established, but in fact a new creation, distinct enough 
from the o original 7. ri igida, and instead of having so long been left 
in the usurpation of the name of the original 7. rigida, Huds., en. 
bsvah Schultz did not himself quite clear his species from all 
danger of confusion with ae allies, according to the usual course have 
Neen re-named 7. Schultsi 
av 0 further Seaiastion to the history of these Mosses appears 
Aave been made by the authors of the ‘‘ Muscologia,” the species 
being enumerated with the same names and characters in the secon nd 
? 
ia inus quam quatuor speciebus (7. a/loidis, 
virostri, et stellate) datum, est maxime c m et abusum 
time debeat.”” To which it must be answer 
ber’s description indicates 7. alotdes ; and secon 
re Sertainly never gave rise to the confusion made by those who 
ser him.” It is ene that Lindberg, so careful and exact » 
