BRYACEiE.] 140 • [Stahleria. 



Syn. — Weissia Mielickhoferi FuNCK Crypt, gew. Fasc. 24, n. 490 (1819). Moost. 13, t. 9 

 (1821). Hook. Muse. exot. ii, 7, t. loi {1820). Hornsch. in Flora 1819, p. 86. 

 ScHWAEG. Suppl. II, P. I, 47, t. 114 (1823). DuBY Bot. gall. 372 (1830). 



Oreas Mielickhoferi Brid. Bry. univ. i, 381 (1826). 



Mielichhoferia nitida Hornsch. Bry. germ, ii, P. II, 183, t. 41 (1831). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. 



fasc. 23 — 24, t. I (1844). Raeenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 197 (1848). C. Muell. 



Synops. i, 234 (1849). WiLS. Bry. br. 262, t. 61 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 325 (i860), 



2 ed. 386. Berk. Handb. Br. m. 161 {1863). De Not. Epilogo 441 (1869). Juratz. 



Laubm. oester.-ung. 244 (1882). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 214 {1884). Husn. 



Muse. gall. 2ig, t. 59 (1888). 

 Apiocarpa Mielickhoferi Hueben. Muse. germ. 155 (1833). De Not. Syllab. 225 (1838). 



Dioicous ; in short very dense, deep green silky tufts, fuscous- 

 black at base. Stems 2 — 4 in. high, slender, fastigiate. Leaves small, 

 rather rigid, erecto-patent, imbricated when dry, lanceolate, accrescent 

 upward, sharply serrate at apex, nerve vanishing below point, cells 

 above naiTowly linear-rhomboid, laxer below. Caps, from a longish 

 neck, oval symmetric, erect, or oblique, leptodermous, rufous-yellow, on 

 a slender flexuose purple seta ; lid shortly conic obtuse ; annulus 

 compound, revoluble ; teeth narrow, linear, pale yellow, nodoso-articu- 

 late, dilated and confluent at base. Male plant more slender, the infl. 

 on short branches, gemmiform. 

 Hab. — Dripping rocks ; rare. Fr. 8 — g. 



Var. /3, compacta {Hornsch.). 



Shorter, very densely compacted ; stems slender, the leaves shorter, 

 densely imbricated ; capsule erect. 

 Sr^T^.— Weissia compacta Hornsch. Hoppe PI, alp. exsic. Dee. 2. 



Weissia elongala Hook. Muse. exot. ii, t. 102, Br. fl. ii, 19. 



Mielichhoferia nitida p. gracilis Bry. eur., Wilson, De Not. Hobk. Synop. &c. 



Hab. — In the same localities as the type. 



Micaceous rocks at Head of Glen Callater (Greville 1830) ! ! Liassic rocks above Ingleby 

 Greenhow, Cleveland (Mudd 1862) I I Corry of Loch Ceander (Roy 1868) ! 



The variety only has been found in this country, and is remarkable for 

 the very dense velvet-green patches. The Rev. Mr. Fergusson has found it 

 bears a few capsules on rare occasions. 



Suhf. 2. Bryese. Inflorescence terminal. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, 

 the cells rhomboid, rarely vermicular. Caps, pyriform or clavate ; peristome 

 double, teeth strongly barred, lanceolate. 



2. STABLERIA Lindb. 



Utkast till en nat. grupp. Eur. bladm. 20 (1878). 



Plants slender, csespitose, the leaves narrow, flexuose,with hexagono- 

 rhomboid areolation, calyptra cucullate. Caps, erect or inclined, from 

 a longish neck, oblong, leptodermous, on a slender seta; lid conico- 

 rostellate ; peristome of 16 slender subremote teeth, inserted below the 

 mouth, incurved when dry, remotely trabeculate, endostome a narrow 



