TortulacejE.] 283 [Leersia. 



Leersia ciliata Hedw. Muse, frond, i, 4g, t. ig (1787). Ehrh. PI. crypt, n. 123. Schrank 

 Bayers, fl. ii, 443 (1789). 



Leersia fimbriata Brid. Muse. ree. II, P. I, 53 (1798). 



Encalypta ciliata Hoffm. Deutseh. fl. ii, 27 (1795). Swartz Muse. suec. 25 (1799). Roth 

 Fl. germ, iii, P. I, 153 (i8oo)-. Roehl. Moosg. deutseh. 104 (1800), Deutseh. fl. iii, 

 S3 (1813). Ann. Wett. ges. ii, 115. Hedw. Sp. muse. 61 (1801). Sm. fl. brit. iii, 1181 

 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1418. Turn. Muse. hib. 18 (1804). Fl. dan. t. 1416. Web. Mohr 

 Bot. Taseh. 107 (1807). Schkuhr Deutseh. kr. gew. P. 2, 45, t. ig (1810). Schwaeg. 

 Suppl. I, P. I, 59 (1811). VoiT Muse. herb, ig (1812). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 311 (1812), 

 Fl. earpat. 335 (1814), Fl. Upsal. 386 (1820). Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. 35, t. 13 (1818J. 

 FuNCK Moost. 12,1.7(1821). Hook. Fl. scot. P. 2, 128 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 18(1833). 

 Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 726 (1821). Nees Hornsch. Bry. germ, ii, P. I, sg, t. 15, f. 8 

 (1827). Hartm. Skand. fl. Huebn. Muse. germ. 106 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 266 

 (1838), Epil. bri. ital. 322 (1869). Bruch Schimp. Bry. eur. fasc. 4, p. 10, t. 3 (1839). 

 Rabenh. Deutseh. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 170 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. i, 517 (1849). WiLS. 

 Bry. br. 143, t. 13 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 288 (i85o), 2 ed. 343. Berk. Handb. br. 

 m. 247 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 183 (1869). Hobk. syn. br. m. 75 (1873). HusN. 

 Mouss. nord-ouest in (1873). Juratz. Laubm. oesterr.-ung. 217 (1882). Lesq. James 

 Mosses N. Amer. 182 (1884). 



Bryum ciliare Gmel. Syst. nat. ii, 1332 (1791). Dicks. Cr. Fasc. IV, 15 (1801). 



Encalypta fimbriata Brid. Sp. muse. I, 89 (1806), Mant. 30 (i8ig), Bry. univ. i, 145 

 {1826). Roehl. Deutseh. fl. iii, 53. 



Encalypta clausa Wallr. Fl. er. germ, i, 125 (1831). 



Encalypta laciniata Lindb. in Act. soc. sc. fenn. X, 26g (1872). 



Autoicous ; in small lax pale green tufts, with short dichotomous 

 innovations. Leaves soft, erecto-patent, when dry complicate and 

 circinato-incurved, broadly oblong-ligulate, carinate-concave, subundu- 

 late at margin and revolute at middle, strongly verruculose ; nerve 

 strong, pale yellow, excurrent in a soft mucro or vanishing below the 

 pale apiculus, cells above coarse, rounded, at base lax, pellucid, rufous, 

 scarcely limbate. Inner perich. bracts thin, broadly ovate, nerved, about 

 as long as the oblong vaginula with its tubular ochrea. Calyptra pale 

 straw-coloured, prolonged below the caps., the base contracted and 

 encircled by short cuneate laciniae, connivent when dry, patent when 

 moist, the apex smooth or slightly papillose. Caps, on a yellow or red 

 seta, oblongo-cylindraceous, at first yellow, finally rufo-fuscous, smooth, 

 when dry slightly contracted below mouth, annulus indistinct, lid 

 conico-subulate, shorter than caps., peristome arising below orifice, 

 small, of 16 narrowly lanceolate red punctate teeth, sometimes irregular, 

 when dry horizontally closing the capsule, patent when moist ; spores 

 large, smooth. Male infl. gemmiform, in the axils of the comal leaves, 

 bracts thin, ovate, apiculate. 



Hab. — On rocks in subalpine districts, not common. Fr. 6 — 7. 



Ben Lawers and Craig Ailleach {Hooker) ! ! Teesdale {Spruce) ! ! Ingleboro and 

 Malham Tarn {Nowell 1854) ! Snowdon (Wilson). Loughrigg Fell, Rydal {Wood 

 1864) ! Rannoch (B. White 1867) ! Mardale {Barnes i86g) ! Langdon beck 

 {Stabler 1868) ! Canloehan {Hunt i868)_! ! Whernside {Lees and West 1878) ! Ben 

 Aught, Clova {Howse) ! ! 



Sect. 2. RHABDOTHECA. C. Muell. Capsule strongly sulcato-striate. 



