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Cindidoti MUSCI-ACROCARPI-PERISTOMI. 47
— Tortula imberbis, Fl. Brit. p. 1261. E. Bot. t. 2329— T.
unguiculata, Turn. Muse. Hib. p. 47. FL Brit. p. 1251.
E. Bot. t. 2316. (not Heche.)—Dill. Muse. t. 48. /. 46, 47.—
/?. stem two or three inches high, leaves longer and patent.
Bryum linoides, Dicks. Or. Ease. 3. t. 8. /. 3.—Barb/da linoides,
Bricl. (not Tortula linoides, E. Bot.)—y. stem half an inch
high, frnitstalks elongated. Barbula brericaulis, Schwaegr.
Suppl v. 1. p. 126. t. 32.
Walls, banks and in fields among grass. Fr. June, July.—This is
indeed a highly variable plant; the dwarf specimens growing in dry
fields can scarcely be recognized as the same with the luxuriant ones
inhabiting the moist banks of rivers. The leaves are usually considerably
recurved when moist ; in the var. £., they are longer and sharper
than in the other states of the plant.
14. T. gracilis, Hooker and Grev. (slender Screw-Moss);
stems elongated somewhat branched, leaves lanceolato-aemninate
erect rigid when dry very straight the margin recurved,
capsule oblongo-ovate, lid rostrate very short. Hooker and Grev.
in Breicst. Journ. v. 1. p. 300. Mute. Brit. ed. 2. p. 64. ft. 61.
Suppl. t. 2 Barb// la gracilis, Schwaegr. Suppl. p. 125. t. 34.
—$.viridis; stems stouter and leaves somewhat wider, the Latter
a little patent green. T. brerifolia, FL Brit. p. 1259. E. Bot.
t. 2553.
Scotland, Dicks., Drummond. /3. Durham and Northumberland, Mr.
Winch, Near Cork, Mr. James Drummond. Fr. ? Nearly allied
to T.fullax, but a slenderer plant, with leave* that are far more rigid,
more erect, and very straight, when dry appressed to the stem. Colour
brownish-green. Perhaps the var. 0. might with more propriety be
referred to the preceding species.
21. Cinclidotus. Beam: Lattice-Moss.
Seta (very sharp) terminal. Peristome single, of 32 filiform
at length twisted teeth, anastomosing at the base. Cafyptra
mitrifbrm. Muse. Brit ft 1.)— Name. xjyXi&vrvf, latticed: from
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the anastomosing teeth or cilia.— Mr. Wilson has observed thai
at the moment when the Lid is removed, the teeth of the peri-
stome are scarcely inclined, certainly not twisted; although
they afterwards become so.
I. C. fcmtmaloides, Beauv. (Fountain Lattic§-Mosi)r-Beauv.
Prodr. p. 28. and 32. float. Brit Moms, v. 2. n. L5. Orion,
Mute. Scot. v. 1. //. 50. Mute. Brit. ed. 2.p. 51. £ H— Tri-
ckostomum fontinaioides, ffedw. St. Or. ,-. 8. p. 86. /• 1 »• Turn.
Mute lid',. . r 4 1. Schwaegr. Suppl v. 1. p. 160. FL Brit
p, 1248, Fontmalis minor, Ijnn.— E. Bot t 557.
—
F. alpina,
Dicks. Or. Fate. 2. p. 4. /: 1. Raettmitrion, BricL—DUL Mute.
I./.2.
on nonet and wood, in stresmi of water. Fr. Apr.— Plant from 1
— 8 inches long, branched, dark lurid green, with tin- habh of a ZW-