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IL. Philonotula. Male flowers gemmiform with erect leaves. 
Monoecious or dioecious. Leaves small narrow, nearly erect 
when moist, not reflexed, faintly mamillose without double 
mamille, often nearly appressed when dry. Fruiting stem very 
short. 
I. Eu-Philonotis. 
1. Homomorphe. 
A. Leaves not recurved at borders. ' 
1.Ph.marchica Willdenow. — Leskia Willd.; Philonotis Brid. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate acute not sharply serrate, more or 
less distant; shoot-leaves somewhat shorter; costa short-excurrent. 
Perigonial leaves erect-patent ovate-lanceolate nearly subulate- 
acuminate; costa distinct often excurrent. Inner perichetial 
leaves short, not or scarcely reaching above vaginula. Stem 
somewhat long. — Wet places in lower districts. Eur. not 
. eommon. Switzerl.! France: Husnot. Germany: Warnstorf. Amer. r. 
Can.: Macoun. U. S.: Roell. 
* Ph.laxa Limpricht. 
»Leaves very distant; costa not excurrent. — Eur. r. Swit- 
zerl. and Germany»: Limpricht. 
2.Ph.Muehlenbergii Bridel. | 
Differs from the last: Leaves smaller, more distant; costa 
long-excurrent; stem thinner, subcapillary; capsule smaller. — 
Springs in sandy rocks r. Amer. Can.: Macoun. U. S8: Roell; 
Sullivant, com. C. Mueller. 
3.Ph.Macounii Lesquereux et James. 
Leaves ovate-oblong or broadly ovate-lanceolate, long-subulate, 
sharply serrate princ. above, crowded, smaller and shorter than 
in Ph. marchica; costa long-excurrent. Perigonial leaves horizon- 
tally spreading, ovate-lanceolate acute not subulate; costa not 
well-defined, obsolete not exeurrent. Inner perichetial leaves 
reaching far above vaginula with long-excurrent costa. Stem 
somewhat short. — Amer. r. Can. Pacif. distr.: J. Macoun. . 
B. Leaves (at least some ones) recurved, ovate-lanceolate, 
Capsules not seen. Stem us. subcapillary. 
a. Leaves nearly smooth and not sharply serrate; costa 
short-excurrent. 
4.Ph.Arnellii Husnot m. G. — »Ph. parvula Lindb.»: Philibert. 
E — Leaves distant long-subulate short-decurrent. Perigonial leaves 
. Ovate-lanceolate subulate horizontally patent; costa excurrent. 
~ — Wet rocks r. Eur, Sweden: Zetterstedt. Amer. Greenl.: 
.. Wenck, com. Roell. 
