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T O R T U L A apiculata.
Small-tipped Screw-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
G en . C har. F r in g e s i m p l e , o f n u m e r o u s c a p i l l a r y
t e e t h , s p i r a l l y a n d r e p e a t e d l y t w i s t e d t o g e t h e r .
Sp e c . C har. S t e m s i m p l e , r a t h e r s h o r t . L e a v e s r a t
h e r d i s t a n t , o b l o n g - l a n c e o l a t e , m i n u t e l y p o i n t e d ,
s p r e a d i n g . C a p s u l e o b l o n g . L i d b e a k e d ,
' S yn. T o r t u l a a p i c u l a t a . T u r n . Mu$c. H ib . 4 6 .
B a r b u l a a p i c u l a t a . H edw . S p . M u s e . 1 1 7 * 26 .
f 1—3. _ _ _ _ _
G r ATHERED by Dr. Stokes at Killesandra inlreland, growing
on the ground. Mr. Turner found it sufficiently agree with Hed-
wig’s Pennsylvanian moss, cited above; which is not the only
instance of' such a coincidence between the botany of those two
countries.
The stems are from two lines to half an inch high, erect, slender,
clothed loosely with more or less spreading leaves, of a
linear-oblong form, bluntish, entire, concave, keeled and single-
ribbed, tipped with a little short point, which is an elongation of
the rib. When dry they are incurved, but hardly twisted. Fruit-
stalk terminal, solitary, purplish, an inch long, not quite straight.
Capsule oblong, upright, cylindrical when quite ripe. Fringe
crimson, half as long as the capsule. Lid the length of the latter,
according to Hedwig, and slightly incurved.