ToRTULACE^.] 243 [Mollia. 



Very variable in height and density, but easily recognised by the 

 dentate basal margin of the leaf. Lindberg determined the Hyssopiis Salomonis 

 Hasselquist to be a variety of this with recurved leaves. 



14. MOILIA CEISPULA [Bmch) Lindb. 



Dioicous ; densely caespitose. Leaves linear-lanceolate, with the 

 apex incurved or cucullate, mucronate with the excurrent nerve, the 

 margin incurved. Caps, erect ovate, lid with a long beak, teeth in 

 pairs, unequal, very slender. (T. XXXV, D.) 



Syn. — Trichosiomam crispulum Bruch in Flora xii, P. II, 395, t. i, f. 4 (1829). De Not. 

 Syllab. 191 (1838), Epil. bri. ital. 503 {1869). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 18—20, Mon. 8, 

 t. 5 (1843). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fi. ii, S. 3, 114 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. i, 571 

 (1849). WiLS. Bry. brit. iii, t. 41 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 151 (i860), 2 ed. 171. 

 Berk. Handb. br. m. 261 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 104 (1869). Husn. Mouss. nord- 

 ouest 74 (1873), Muse. gall. 88, t. 25 (1885). Hobk. Syn. br. m. 61 (1873). Juratz. 

 Laubm. oesterr.-ung. 103 (1882). Lesq. James Mosses N. Amer. log (1884). 



Didymodnn crispulus WiLS. Hook. Br. fl. ii, 30 (.1833), Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2734 (1834). 

 Mack. Fl. hibern. P. 2, 18 (1836). 



Plaubelia tortuosa (non Brid.) Bruch MSS. 



Mollia crispula Lindb. Muse, scand. 21 (1879). 



Dioicous; densely caespitose, fastigiate, bright green. Comal 

 leaves patulous, when dry with involute wings, incurved cirrhate, lineal, 

 margin erect, subundulate, cucullato-incurved at apex, concave, very 

 minutely papillose, upper cells small, indistinct, basal narrowly 

 rectangular, nerve terete shortly excurrent in a mucro. Perich. bracts 

 2 — 3 semivaginant, with an erect lane, acute apex ; seta red below, 

 yellowish above, caps, erect, ovate or elliptic, irregularly sulcate when 

 dry and empty, lid long-beaked, red at margin, teeth in two unequal 

 legs, more or less perfect, finely papillose. 



Male plants like the female or nearly simple, bracts ovate 



acuminate. 



Hab. — Rocks, walls and banks in calcareous districts, particularly near the 

 sea ; not common. Fr. 5 — 6. 



Ormeshead and Tros-y-Marian, Anglesey (Wilson 1829) ! Frequent in Sussex {Mitten). 

 St. Vincent's reeks and Leigh woods [Thwaites 1844) ! Cliff at Scalby mill, Yorks. 

 (Spruce 1843) ! Common about Plymouth (Holmes 1868) ! ! Torquay (Dickie). 

 Arthur's seat (Hunt 1864) ! Shere, Surrey (Dy. Capron 1869) ! Buckfastleigh and 

 Swanage (Holmes) ' ! Folkestone, Kent (Holmes) ! ! Muekross, Dunkerron and Ben- 

 bulben, Ireland (Moore) ! ! Rushen Abbey, I. of Man (Holt 1S84) ! ! Great Doward 

 hill, Monmouth (Boswell 1875) ! ! Falmouth and St. Ouens, Jersey (Holmes.) Monsal 

 Dale (Holt 1882) ! ! 



Var. j8. viridula (Bruch). 



Plants smaller, bright yellow-green ; leaves longer, lanceolate, gradually 

 narrowed upward, acuminate ; fruit smaller. 



Syn. — Trichostomum viridulum Bruch in Flora xii, P. 11, 401, t. 2, f. 5. Hueben. Muse, 

 germ. 303. 

 T. trifarium Hartm. Skand. fl. 7 ed. 381. 



T. planum Lindb. in Oefv. vet. ak. foer. xvi, 210. Hartm. op. c. 8 ed. 396. 

 T. crispulum Var. angustifolium et longifolium Schimp. Synops. 



