ToRTULACEiE.] 265 [Barbula. 



ceous, very slightly curved, leptodermous, glossy brown; calyptra 

 subulate, prolonged below the lid, annulus indistinct ; lid purple, subu- 

 late, nearly as long as caps., peristome bright red, long, fragile, on a 

 very narrow basal membrane, many times twisted ; spores minute, 

 smooth. 



Male plant , more branched, infl. terminal, bracts from a broad 

 concave base, narrowly lane, very faintly nerved. 



Hab. — Wet clay and sandy banks and walls ; common. Fr. lo — i. 



Var. /3. brevicaulis [Schwaeg.) 



Stem short simple ; leaves crowded, patent, subundulate at margin ; 

 caps, shorter as also the lid and peristome. 



Syn. — Barbula brevicaulis Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. I, 126, t. 32. Brid. Mant. 92 ; Bry. univ. i, 

 551. ScHULTz. Recens. 210, t. 33, f. 20. 



B. fallax var. brevicaulis Schimp. — C. Muell. — Wilson, &c. 



Hab. — Wet places. Hastings [Boney) ! 



Var. y. brevifolia {Sm.) Schultz. 



More densely tufted, slender, fastigiate branched ; leaves shorter, ovato- 

 lanc, patulous from the middle, subrecurved ; caps, small, peristome shorter. 



Syn. — Tortula brevifolia Sm. FI. brit. 1259. Brid. Sp. Muse. I, 254. 

 Barbula brevifolia Brid. Mant. 92 ; Bry. univ. i, 555. 



B. fallax \ar. brevifolia ^cnvLiz Kecens. 212, t. 33, f. 21, B. Schimp. — C. Muell. — 

 Wilson, &c. 



Hab. — Cheddar, Somerset (Bosmell, 1873) ' Bearley, Warwick {Bagnall) ! ! 

 Buxton and Miller's dale {Holt, 1883) ! ! 



This common moss varies from i to 2 inches in height, and is always of 

 a brown or rusty tint ; a tuft of it in fruit has a very pretty appearance from 

 the neat capsules with long acutely pointed lids. 



6. BARBULA E,EFLEXA Brid. 



Dioicous ; leaves rufescent, ovato-lanceolate, incumbent when dry, 

 strongly recurved when wet, acutely carinate, margin reflexed below, 

 nerve vanishing. Caps, cylindric. (T. XXXIX, E.) 



Syt^.— Tortula reflexa Brid. Sp. muse. I, 255 {1806). Braithw. in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1871, p. 



293, t. 120, f. 2. 

 Barbula reflexa Brid. Mant. muse. 93 {1819). 

 B. fallax var. y. reflexa Brid. Bry. univ. i, 558 (1826). 



Schistidium ? recurvifolium WiLS. MSS. Spruce in Ann. Mag. n. h. 2 ser. iii, 491 (1849). 

 Grimmia recurvifolia WiLS. MSS. 



Tortula fallax var. S. recurvifolia WiLS. Bry. brit. 124 (1855). 

 Barbula recurvifolia Schimp. CoroU. Bry. eur. 141 (1855), Synops 170 {i860), 2 ed. 206. 



Mitt. Journ. Linn. soc. i, Suppl. 34 p.p. (1859). Milde Bry. siles. 121 (1869). 



JURATZ. Laubm. oesterr.-ung. 112 (1882). Lesq. James Mosses N. Amer. 122 (1884). 

 Tortula recurvifolia Berk. Handb. br. m. 258 (1863). Linde. De Tort. 250 (1864). 



De Not. Epil.bri. ita). 555 (i86g). 



