BAEBULA. 101 



1868). Densely pulviuate, olive-green above, brown 

 below. St. rigid, branched. L. crowded, erecto- 

 patent, arcuate when dry, more or less elongate, linear 

 or sublingulate, channelled, margin plane, slightly 

 undulate, nerve terete, prominent on back, excurrent, 

 areolation minute, loose and cuneiform at base, papil- 

 lose above. Fruit not known. 

 Clifton, Torquay, Plymouth, &c. 



165. T. littorale, Mitt. St. elongate, tufted, more or 

 less interruptedly comose, L. patent from an erect 

 base, oblong- ligulate, obtuse, concave, recurved towards 

 apex, with nerve excurrent into .a short mucro, basal 

 cells hyaline, oblong, and rectangular. 



Ireland; Whitsand Bay, Cornwall; Hastings; De- 

 vonshire ; &c. 



37. BARBTILA, ffedw. 



Section 1. ALOIDELLA. 



L. rigid, nerve broad, bearing articulate filaments on 

 its upper surface. 



166. B. brevirostris, B. and S. {Muell. ?). Plants 

 minute. L. lower rotundate-ovate, upper broadly 

 oblong, obtuse, nerve thin, annulus broadish. Perist. t. 

 once convolute. Monoicous. (Sch, Syn., ed. 2, 189.) 



Clay soil. July, August. 



Near Edinburgh (Stewart), near Buxton (B. George, 

 1873). 



167. B. stellata, Schreb., 1771 {T. rigida, Schultz). 

 St. minute, loosely ctespitose. L. spreading from an 

 upright base, oblong, obtuse, margin inflexed mem- 

 branaceous. Caps, erect, ovate- elliptical, lid with a 

 long oblique beak. Calyptra half as large as capsule. 

 Perist. teeth long, and much twisted, Dioicous, 



