TORTULACEiE.] 252 [MolUa. 



Barbula inclinata Schwaeo. Suppl. I, P. I, 131, t. 33 (1811). Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 80 

 (1813). ScHULTZ Recens. Barb, et Syntr. 218, t. 33, f. 27 (1823). Brid. Bry. univ. 1, 

 575 (1826). HuEBEN. muse. germ. 332 (1833). Br. Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 13 — 15, p." 

 25, t. 12 (1842). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, s. 3, 107 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. i, 600 

 (1849). Schimp. Svnops. 178 (i860), 2 ed. 217. Milde Bry. siles. 123 (1869). HusN. 

 Mouss. nord-ouest 83 {1873). Juratz. Laubra. oesterr.-ung. 121 {1882). 



MolUa tortuosa Var. /8. inclinata Lindb. Muse, scand. 21 {1879). 



Dioicous ; in large broad tufts, flat, dense, dull yellowish green 

 above, fuscous at base. Stems robust, I — i inch high, dense-leaved, 

 fragile. Leaves erect, acute, nearly straight, lineal-lanceolate, compli- 

 cate and cirrato-crisped when dry, the wings somewhat undulate, the 

 nerve whitish at back, excurrent in a very short mucro ; basal cells 

 hyaline very narrow, running obliquely upward and outward, upper 

 small, roundish-quadrate, papillose, opaque. Perich. bracts erect, 

 longer, narrower, acuminate, more laxly areolate ; seta red, flexuose, 

 caps, cernuous, oval-oblong, more or less incurved and gibbous at base, 

 castaneous ; lid rufous, narrowly conic, rostrate, peristome fugacious, of 

 two spirals. Male infl. terminal, gemmiform, bracts ovate, pointed, 

 nerved. 



Hab. — Sandy banks and heaths, especially by the sea ; sterile. 



Holton stone-pits, Oxford (Boswell 1872) ! ! Banks by the sea, Groomsport, Co. Down 

 (Rev. C. H. Waddell, 1885) ! ! Dysart, Forfar {Swing 1883) ! ! 



Resembling a small state of M. tortuosa, but differing by the shorter, 

 broader, lineal-lanceolate leaves, more suddenly pointed, and with the 

 margins at the point more or less incurved ; the capsule also is generally 

 more gibbous than that of M. tortuosa. The leaf resembles that of M. flavo- 

 virens very closely in areolation, but may be distinguished from it by being 

 cirrato-crisped when dry. 



23. MOLLIA TORTUOSA (L.) Schranh 



Dioicous; in large pulvinate tufts. Leaves dense, strongly curled, 

 longly lineal-lanceolate, subulate, undulate, nerve excurrent. Caps, 

 oblongo-cylindric, peristome contorted. (T. XXXVII, C.) 



Syn. — Bryum trichoides longifolium, crassiusculis cauUculis, capitulis erectis aduncis acutis Dill. 

 in Ray Synops. 3 ed. g8 (1724). 



Bryum cirratum, setts et capsulis longioribus Dill. Hist. muse. 377, t. 48, fig. 40 A — D 

 (1741) et Herbar. 



Bryum tortuosum L. Sp. plant, ii, 1119, (1753). HuDS. Fl. angl. 408 (1762). Neck. 

 Meth. muse. 227 (1771). With. Bot. arr. br. veg. ii, 675 (1776). Lightf. Fl. scot, ii; 

 727 (1777). Ehrh. Hann. mag. 1780, p. 236. Relhan Fl. cant, suppl. 18 (1786). Fl. 

 daniea t. 888. Hull Br. Fl. P. 2, 255 (1799). Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 46 (1795). 



Hypnum tortuosum Web. Spic. fl. goett. go (1778). 

 Mnium tortuosum Swartz Meth. Muse. 27 (1781). 



Mollia tortuosa Schrank Baiers. fl. ii, 458 (1789). Pr. fl. salisb. n. 833 (1792). Lindb. 

 Muse, scand. 21 (1879). 



