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TORTULA (§ Zygotrichia) INERMIS {Brid.) Mont. 

 Autoicous ; resembling T.subulata. Leaves more solid, lower oblong- 

 lanceolate, upper lineal-elongate, muticous or with a very short apiculus, 

 margin reflexed, not limbate. Capsule narrowly cylindraceous, subarcuate. 

 (T. CXXVI, D.) 



Syn. — Synirichia subulaia var. inermis Brid. Bry, univ. i, 581 (1826). 



Tortula inermis Montagne in Archiv. Bot. i, 136, t 4 (1832). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. 

 Laubm. i, 675 (1888). 



Synirichia subulata S mutica Huebek. Muse. germ. 335 (1833). 



Barbula subulaia 7 inermis Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. fasc. 13 — 15, p. 37, t. 22 (1842). 



Tortula subulaia j8 inermis Spruce in An^. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. iii, 376 (1849). 



Barbula inermis C. Moell. Synops. i, 624 (1849). ScraMP. Bry. Eur. fasc. 46 — ^47, t. suppl. 

 3 (1851). CoroU. Br. eur. 33 (1855). Synops. 187 (i860), 2 ed. 224. 



Desmatodon inermis Mitt. Muse. Ind. orien. 37 (1859). 



Autoicous ; near T. subulata, densely tufted, olivaceous-green or 

 brown. Leaves dense, firm, erect, when dry folded together and incurved, 

 lower oblong-lanceolate, upper lineal-elongate, obtuse, very shortly apiculate, 

 margin not limbate, entire, revolute, nerve rufous, ending in the point 

 or shortly excurrent, it and lamina papillose on both sides ; cells smaller 

 above than in T. subulata, opaque, roundish hexagonal and quadrate below, 

 rectangular and hyaline at base. Seta long, brown ; capsule narrowly 

 cylindric, subarcuate, reddish-brown ; lid J length of capsule, conical, 

 pointed, oblique; annulus of 2 — 3 rows, tube of peristome J its length. 

 Hab. — Dry banks, clefts of rocks and walls; very rare. Fr. 7. 



Near Cowie Moss, Stirlingshire {R. Kidston and Col. Stirling 1895) ! I 



Vey near to T. subulata and angustata, but the leaves are more solid, with 

 smaller cells ; generally muticous, and without the border of narrow cells. 



MOLLIA (§ EUCLADIUM) AERUGINOSA. 

 Var. y. hnmilis (Ingham). 



Weisia mpestris var. humilis Ingham Joum. Bot. 1900, p. 495. 



Very dwarf, compactly tufted. Leaves very narrow and acute, with pellucid 

 areolation. 



Hab. — Kilhope Bum, Wearhead, Durham (Jneham 1893). 



MOLLIA (§ Hymenostomum) STERILIS {Nicholson). 

 Autoicous ; closely resembling M. crispa, but with denser comal leaves 

 completely hiding the capsule: the long beak to the lid and the plane 

 margined leaves are also characteristic. (T. CXXVI, A.) 

 Syn. — Weisia sierUis Nicholson in Journ. Bot. 1903, p. 247. 



