ToRTULACE^.] 220 [Tortula. 



Bryum erectis longis et acutis falcatis capitulis, calyptra subfusca, foliis serpylli pellucidis 



Dill. Cat. Giss. 223 (1719), et in Ray. Syn. 3 ed. 92 (1724). 

 Bryum capsulis longis subulatis Dill. Hist. muse. 350. t. 45, fig. 10 (1741), et Herbar. 

 Bryum sitbiilatum L. Sp. pi. ii, 1116 (1753), Syst. Nat. ii, 701. HuDS. Fl. angl. 405 



(1762). Weiss Crypt, goett. 187 (1770). Neck. Meth. muse. 194 (1771)- With. Bot. 



arr. br. veg. ii, 672 (1776). Lightf. Fl. scot, ii, 719 (1777). Web. Fl. goett. gg (1778). 



Curt. Fl. Lond. fasc. 3, t. 66 (1778). Relh. Fl. cant. 402 (1785). Hoffm. Deutsch. 



fl. ii, 46 (1795). Abbot. Fl. bedf. 242 (1798). Hull Br. fl. P. 2, 263 (1799). Fl. Dan. 



t. 1000, f. 2. 



Mnium snbulatum Sw. Meth. muse. 28 (1781). 



Tortula subulata Hedw. Fund, ii, 92 (1782), Sp. muse. 122, t. 37 (1801). Roth FI. 

 germ, i, 461 (1788). Timm Fl. meg. 220 (1788). Sibth. Fl. oxon. 284 (1794). Brid. 

 Muse. rec. II, P. I, 184 (1798). Swaetz Muse. suee. 39 (1799). Roehl. Moosg. 

 deutsch. 384 (1800), Deutsch. fl. iii, 77 (1813). Sm. Fl. brit. iii, 1255 (1804), Eng. Bot. 

 t. iioi. Turn. Muse. hib. 44 (1804). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. I, 135, t. 34 (1811). 

 Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 316 (1812), Fl. carp. 337 (1814). Hook. Tayl. muse. br. 31, t. 12 

 (1818). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 723 (1821). Hook. Fl. scot. P. 2, 127 (1821), 

 Br. fl. ii, 45 (1833). Mack. Fl. hib. P. 2, 26 (1836). De Not. in Mem. ace. Torin. xl, 

 293, et Syllab. 173 (1838), Muse. ital. I, 46, t. 21 (1862), Epil. bri. ital. 545 (1869). 

 WiLS. Bry. brit. 132, t. 12 (1855). Berk. Handb. br. m. 252 (1863). Lindb. de Tort. 

 242 {1864). HoEK. Syn. br. m. 72 (1873). 



Mollia subulata Schrank Bayers. Fl. ii, 455 (1789), Fl. Salisb. u. 830 (1792). 



Barbula subulata P. Beauv. Prodr. 43 {1805) et in Mem. See. Linn. Par. i, t. 6, f. 2 (1822). 

 Brid. Sp. muse. I, 267 (1806). Schultz Fl. starg. 305 (1806). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. 

 fasc. 13 — 15, Mon. 36, t. 21 (1842). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, no {1848). 

 C. MuELL. Synops. i, 623 (1849). Schimp. Synops. 186 (i860), 2 ed. 223. Milde Bry. 

 siles. 125 (1869). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest. 86 (1873). Lesq. James Mosses 

 N. Amer. 130 (1884). 



Syntrichia subulata Web. Mohr. Bot. Taseh. 214 (1807). Voit Muse. herb. 53 (1812). 

 Mart. Fl. cr. erl. 87 (1817). Brid. Mant. 97 (1819), Bry.univ. 1,579 (1826). Schultz 

 Recens. 226, t. 34, f . i A (1823). Hueben. Muse. germ. 335 (1833). 



Desmatodon subulatus Juratz. Laubm. oesterr.-ung. 138 (1882). 



Autoicous ; laxly csespitose, robust, bright green, short, simple or 

 branched. Leaves rosaceous, erecto-patulous, obovato- and spathulate- 

 oblong, mucronate with the excurrent nerve, entire or obscurely serrate 

 at apex, subundulate, with the margin plane and a yellow border of 

 narrow pachydermous cells, more or less distinct or wanting ; cells at 

 base lax, rectangular, hyaline, above opake, chlorophyllose, finely 

 papillose. Calyptra large, brownish, caps, on a stout reddish seta 

 twisted to the left, elongated, cylindraceous, subarcuate, brown, 

 pachydermous, lid narrowly conic, annulus of a double series of cells ; 

 tube of per. very long, pale red, obliquely quadrately tessellated, teeth 

 red. 



Male infl. gemmiform, on a short lateral branch, bracts ovato-lanc, 

 the nerve vanishing. 



Hab. — Sandy banks by roadsides and hedges ; common. Fr. 5 — 6. 



Var. /3. subinermis {Br. Sch.). 



Dull green ; leaves dense, oblong and ovato-lanceolate, mucronate, 

 indistinctly bordered ; caps, shorter on a shorter pedicel. 



Syn. — Barbula subulata Var. subinermis Br. Schimp. Bry. eur. Mon. 37, 

 Tortula subulata Var. yS. subinermis WiLS. Bry. brit. 132. 



