ToRTULACEiE.] 233 [MolHa. 



Syn. — Astomum Mitienii Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 43, t. 2 (1850). Jaeg. Ber. St. Gall. nat. 

 gesells. i85g, p. 70. 



Hymenostonmm sphairicarpon Mitt, in lit. 



Weissia Mittenii Mitt. Ann. Mag. n. h. 2 ser. viii, 317 (1851). 



Phascum multicapsulare Var. yS. Mittenii WiLS. Bry. brit. 37 (1855). 



Systegium Mittenii Schimp. Synops. 32 (i85o). Berk. Handb. br. m. 297 (1863). 



Autoicous and polygamous ; stem taller, flexuoso-erect, simple or 

 branched, brownish. Leaves squarrose and recurved, rigid, broadly lane, 

 the comal few lineal-lane, shorter, divergent, margin not involute, nerve 

 thick, terete, fuscous, vanishing in the apex; perich. bracts lanceolate, 

 thinner with a narrower nerve. Caps, emergent, on a longer pale pedicel, 

 solitary, ovate, lid minute, conic rostellate. Male at base of fertile 

 innovation. 

 Hab. — Clay banks at Hurstpierpoint, and in a stubble field at Little-ease 



[Mitten 1.846) ! Fr. 3. 



This differs from M. multicapsiilaris by the shorter more rigid leaves, 

 scarcely curling, the perich. bracts fewer, shorter, patent from the middle, 

 broader and thinner, the shorter caps, with larger spores. The force of Mr. 

 Wilson's reasoning that this is a var. of M. multicapsularis , because the 

 following year that species only was found, is not apparent. 



4. MOLLIA ROSTELLATA [Bvid.) Lindb. 

 Autoicous ; in small tufts. Leaves linear-lane, spreading, crisp when 

 dry, mucronate with the excurrent nerve, margin plane. Caps, elliptic, 

 rostellate, scarcely exserted. (T. XXXIV, A.) 



Syn. — Phascum rostellatum Brid. Mant. 11 (iSig), Bry. univ. i, 46 (1826). Nees Hornsch. 



Bry. germ, i, 59, t. 6, f. 14 (1823). Schwaeqr Suppl. Ill, P. II. t. 296 (1830). Br. 



Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. i, p. 13, t. 6 (1837). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 83 (1848). 



C. MuELL. Syn. i, 24 (1849). WiLs. Bry. brit. 38, t. 38 (1855). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 31 



(1873)- 

 Hymenostomum microstomum /8. mutilatum Hueben. muse. germ. 67 (1833). 

 Hymenostomum. obliquicmWii^s. Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2831. 



Hymenostomum phascoides Wils. MSS. Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 42, t. i (C850). 

 Astomum rostellatum Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 43, t. i (1850). 



Gymnostomum rostellatum Schimp. Synops. 33 (i860). Berk. Handb. br. m. 296 (1863). 

 HusN. mouss. nord-ouest 39 (1873). 



Hymenostomum rostellatum Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 33 (1876). HusN. muse, gall 5, t. 2 

 (1884). 



Weissia rostellata Lindb. De Tort. 230 (1864). Milde Bry. siles. 43 (1869). Juratz. 

 Laubm. oesterr.-ung. 8 (1882). 



Mollia rostellata Lindb. 



Autoicous ; in small lax, dingy green tufts, i — 3 lines high. Leaves 

 spreading, entire, crisped when dry, lower lane, upper linear-lane, long, 

 erecto-patent, flexuose, nerve excuixent in a short mucro, margin plane, 

 cells at base hexagono-rectang. narrow at margin, above minute, 

 quadrate, opake, minutely papillose on both sides. Caps, not elevated 

 above perich. bracts, olive brown, elliptic, obliquely rostellate. 



Male infl. gemmiform. 



