202. G. contorta. Wahl. In small deep green soft tufts, black below and radiculose; l. patent incurved, curled when dry, lineal subulate from a lanceolate base, with short diaphanous hair points, keeled, margin recurved below: basal cells diaphanous elongate hexagono-rectangular, above sinuous and quadrate; per. l. erect sheathing; caps. small oval smooth yellowish, cernuous on a subarcuate seta, erect when dry, lid convex conical obtuse orange-red: dioicous. [Dr. Braithwaite, l. c. p. 197; Schp. Syn. 210.]
Quartz rocks. Cheviots (Hardy); Cloch-na-ben (Sim); Glen Callater, &c. (Fergusson).
203. G. torquata. Grev. (G. torta. N. & H. Bry. Brit.) Loosely tufted elongate; st. 1-2in. dichotomous; l. lanceolate-acuminate, spirally twisted when dry, channelled, occasionally hair-pointed; fruct. not known.
Alpine rocks. E. I. S.
204. G. funalis. Schwgn. (G. spiralis. H. & T. Bry. Brit.) Densely pulvinate; st. ½-1in. slender; l. oblong or ovate-lanceolate, erecto-patent, upper ones tapering into a long hair point, nerve not excurrent; caps. ovoid, smooth, eight-furrowed when dry; lid short apiculate; annulus large compound; calyp. five-lobed at base; per. teeth closely bifid: dioicous.
Dry alpine rocks. E. S. I. X. XI.
205. G. muhlenbeckii. Schpr. Loosely pulvinate and cæspitose; st. tall erect or procumbent dichotomous and rooting at base; l. densely crowded, patulous, erect when dry, elongate-lanceolate, keeled with the strong nerve, margin plane, lower with a short, upper with a long, rough hair
