2919.
BARTRAMIDULA Wilsoni.
Wilson’s Beardless Bartramia.
CBYPTOGAMIA Musci.
Gen. Char. Capsule globular, estriate. Mouth small,
without fringe or annulus. Calyptra dimidiate.
Flowers hermaphrodite.
[Habit and general structure as in Bartramia,
but much smaller in all the parts ; the capsule
not furrowed when dry, and without a fringe.
It is distinguished from Glyphocarpa of Brow n
and Bridel, and from Philonotula of Bruch and
Schimper, by the absence of striae on the capsule
; and from the latter also by the hermaphrodite
inflorescence.]
Spec. Char. Stems with fasciculate branches. Leaves
lanceolate, nerved almost to the apex, serrulate.
Capsule roundish pear-shaped, pendulous. Fruit-
stalks aggregate.
Syn. Bartramidula Wilsoni. Bruch and Schimper
Bryol. Europ.fasc. 29.
Glyphocarpa? cernua. Wilson MS. in Hook.
Journ. of Bot. v. 3. p. 383.
O u r figure and description are made from beautiful and
perfect specimens gathered by the Rev. T. Salwey in Cwm
Bychan, near Harlech, in North Wales, September 1841,
which exactly agree with our own from Conner Hill near
Dingle, in the south-west of Ireland, where it was first found,
sparingly, in October 1829. Mr. Croall and others have also