ToRTULACE^.] 235 [Mollia. 



Hab. — Helk's wood, Ingleton {Nowell 1850) ! ! 



The leaves of this species closely resemble those of M. viridula, and it is 

 only by the small mouth of the capsule closed by the epiphragm that they can 

 be separated ; yet a character of such trivial weight is still used to establish 

 genera, and separate species having the closest natural affinity. 



6. MOLLIA SaUAREOSA {Nees Hovnsch.) Lindb. 



Autoicous : in small lax tufts. Leaves squarrose, lanceolate, 

 broader with plane margins. Caps, elliptic, lid conico-rostellate. 

 (T. XXXIV, C.) 



Syn. — Hymenostomum squarrosum Nees Hornsch. Bry. germ, i, 193, t. 12, f. i (1823). Brid. 

 Bry. univ. ii, 74 (1827). HuEBEN. Muse. germ. 6g (1833). ^R. Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 

 33 — 36, p. 5, t. 2 (1846). Rabiinh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 124 (1848). Schimp. 

 Synops. 2 ed. 34 (1876). HusN. Muse. gall. 6, t. -^ (18S4). 



Weissia squarrosa C. Muell. Synops. i, 663 (1849). Lindb. De Tort. 230 (1864). 

 MiLDE Bry. siles. 44 {1869). Jueatz. Laubm. oesterr.-ung. 8 (1882). 



Gymnostomum squarrosum Wils. Bry. brit. 43, t. 38 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 34 (i860). 



Berk. Handb. br. m. 295 (1863). HuSN. Mouss. nord.-ouest. 39 (1873). Hobk. Syn. 



br. m. 33 (1873). 

 Mollia squarrosa Lindb. Muse, scand. 22 (1879). 



Autoicous ; in small lax deep green tufts. Stem ^ in. high, becoming 

 decumbent after fruiting, and throwing out innovations below the 

 perichaetium. Leaves distant, squarrose, dirty green, lanceolate, 

 mucronate, margins erect not involute, upper comant, lineal-lane, twice 

 the length. Capsule small, elliptic, often oblique, brownish, on a short 

 yellowish seta, lid conico-rostellate. 

 Hab. — Clay fields and banks ; not common. Fr. 10 — 3. 



Over, Cheshire {Wilson 1830) ! ! Hurstpierpoint (Mitten 1846)! Hale barns and Ashley, 

 Cheshire {Hunt 1868) ! ! Bowdon, Cotterall wood, Helsby and Mobberley {Hunt 

 1870) ! Handforth, Cheshire {P. G. Cunliffe). Buckingham {Holmes). Brant Fell, 

 Westmoreland {West 1879) ! ! Stirrup wood {Scholefield 1868). Penan, Braemar 

 {Sim 1872). 



Very close to M. microstoma, but best distinguished by the decumbent 

 stem and squarrose leaves with plane margins. 



7. MOLLIA TOETILIS (Schwaegr.) Braith. 



Autoicous ; densely tufted, fastigiate. Leaves crowded, oblong- 

 lancelate, mucronate, with incurved margin. Caps, oval, equal, lid 

 obliquely rostrate. (T. XXXIV, D.) 



Syn. — Gymostomum tortile Schwaegr. in Schrad. Neu. Bot. journ. iv, 17, t. i (1810), Suppl. 

 I, P. I, 29, t. 10 (1811). ScHKUHR Deutsch. kr. gew. P. II, 29, t. 11, e. (1810). Brid. 

 Mant. 17 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 74 (1826). Funck Moost. 7, t. 4 (1821). Nees 

 Hornsch. Bry. germ, i, 182, t. 11, f. 28 (1823). Hueben. Muse. germ. 48 (1833). De 

 Not. Syllab. 291 (1838). Wils. Bry. brit. 45, t. 38 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 35 (i860). 

 Berk. Handb. br. m. 296 (1863). HusN. Mouss. nord.-ouest. 40 (1873). Hobk. Syn. 

 br. m. 33 (1873). 



Gynmostomum condensatum VoiT in Sturm Deutsch. fl. P. xi (1810), Muse, herbip. 14 

 (1812). RoEHL. Deutch. fl. iii, 37 (1813). 



