66 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
FontTInauis Dill. 
54. F. antipyretica Linn. Sp. Plant. p. 1571.— Flores 
(Godman ).— Distrib. : Europe, Asia, Algeria, Madeira, 
North America. 
—var. azorica Card. var. nova.— Flores (Trelease, Pl. 
Az. no. 1367). 
A forma typica differt foliis dorso haud curvatis, minus acute cari- 
natis, nonnullis tantum plicatis, cellulis parietibus angustissimis, 
alaribus numerosioribus, auriculas distinctiores efformantibus. Sterilis. 
Habitu formis robustioribus F. Duriaei Sch. sat similis. 
ASTRODONTIUM Schw. 
55. A. CANARIENSE Schw. Suppl. m. 1. 2, p. 128, t. 
CxxxIv.—San Miguel (Godman ).— Distrib.: Cana- 
ries, Madeira. 
56. A. Treleasei, Card. sp. nova. — Terceira, Sta. Maria 
(Trelease, Pl. Az. nos. 1352 and 1352, a). Graciosa 
(Brown, Pl. Az. no. 386 ).— Distrib.: I have received 
from M. F. Renauld, a sterile and rather stunted 
specimen, collected in Madeira by R. Fritze in 1880 
and labeled by M. Geheeb A. canariense, but which 
seems to belong to A. T'releasei Card. 
Verisimiliter dioicum, caespitosum, sordide vel lutescenti-viride. 
Caulis repens, stoloniformis, ramis numerosis fasciculatis, crassis, erectis 
vel ascendentibus, simplicibus, siccitate rigidulis, teretibus, 1-2 centim. 
longis. Folia 2-2.50 millim. longa, dense conferta, madida patentia, sicca 
arctissime imbricata, ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, acuta, valde plicata, 
enervia, marginibus late reflexis ubique integerrimis, cellulis omnibus 
incrassatis, mediis linearibus, flexuosis, margines versus oblongis 
ovatisve, alaribus permultis, obscurioribus, interdum fuscescentibus 
recte seriatis, subrotundatis, marginalibus transverse dilatatis. Folia 
perichaetialia externa abrupte cuspidata, intima longe convoluta, acumi- 
nata, integerrima. Capsula in pedicello rubello, 8-10 millim. longo, 
superne dextrorsum torto, erecta inclinatave, ovato-subglobosa, badia, 
operculo ignoto. Peristomii externi dentes albidi, spongiosi, fragiles, 
intus trabeculati, papillosi, integri, linea divisurali superne valde 
conspicua, siccitate reflexi; interni membrana annulari albida, 16-plicata. 
Planta mascula ignota.— Pl. 9.—a, entire plant, nat. size; b, b, b, 
leaves 143 c, basal areolation of a leaf < 260; d, marginal areolation 
