596 19. SKITOPHYLLEJE. [ Fissidens. 
rum pellucidiore excurrente, lamina vera ad medium producta, cellulis 
parvis rotundatis plerumque opacis ad margines prominulis, minutissime 
crenulata. Pedunculus brevis, fuscus. Theca ovalis, operculo breviter 
subulato. 
Hab. Surinam, Splitzgerber, ex Herb. Dozy et Molkenboer. Fl. Negro, 
Sáo Gabriel, Spruce, n. 472. 
Caulis 1j-2-linearis. Folia i-linearia, 12-juga, viridia. Pedunculus 
1i-linearis. 
45. F. prmorpuus (C. Müll. Syn. ii. 533).  Dioicus, pusillus, simplex. 
Folia caulis fertilis 8-10-juga, sterilis circa 18-juga, crispa, apice caulis 
subfaleata, madefacta ‘stricta, lanceolata dimorpha; perichetialia lamina 
foli vera albido-marginata, caulina lamina immarginata; omnia nervo 
excurrente albido przdita ; laminse ceeterze immarginatze, e cellulis minu- 
tissimis viridibus opacis areolate subintegerrime. Theca in pedunculo 
geniculato-adscendente brevi ovalis, parva, subrecta.— C. Müller. 
Hab. Brasilia, ins. Sta. Catharina, ad lapides sylvarum montosarum 
densissimarum prope Destero, Pabst. 
F. Hornschuchii habitu similis, sed notis laudatis sat diversus.— C. 
Müll. 1. c. 
46. F. scaLarıs (Mitt.). Monoicus; caulis fertilis brevissimus, foliis 
tri- quadrijugis, sterilis elongatus angustior. Folia octo- vigintijuga, nervo 
concolori percurrente, lamina vera lata equali ultra foli medium pro- 
ducta, limbo indistincto marginata, lamina apicali dorsalique inferne 
angustatis, integerrima, cellulis diversiformibus ; folia in caule fertili in- 
feriora late ovata, acuta, complicata (lamina vera), superiora lineari- 
elongata, acuta. Pedunculus elongatus. Theca ovalis, operculo brevi- 
rostro. Flos masculus gemmeformis, ad caulis pedem. 
F. brevifolius, Hook. fil. et Wils. Fl. Nov. Zeal. 61, in adnot. 
Hab. Andes Chilenses, Mendoza, Gillies. Andes Quitenses, Chim- 
borazo, Spruce. 
Caulis sterilis 2-linearis, cum foliis linea dimidia angustior. Folia 
i-lnearia. Caulis fertilis i-linearis. Folia j-linearia. Pedunculus 1j- 
linearis. i 
The habit of this species agrees with that of F. tamarindifolius, 
Sm., and F. brevifolius, H. f. et W.; there is also an allied species 
found in South Africa: all produce elongated, slender sterile 
stems with short leaves, the fertile stems being very short, with 
few and longer leaves. 
47. F. renuirouius Out). Monoicus; caulis brevis. Folia pa- 
tentia, nervo pellucidiore excurrente, lamina vera ultra medium producta 
apice inzequali, dorsali basi rotundata apicalique tenuiter serrulatis, cellulis 
minutis minute papillosis. Theca in pedunculo elongato horizontalis, ovalis, 
