Fontinalis.] BRYACE^. 269 



perichaetial leaves imbricate, the upper enlarged, oblong, all 

 very obtuse at the apex, often lacerate : capsule ovate-oblong, 

 solid, olive-green, fuscous when empty ; lid conical ; teeth long, 

 dark purple, twisted inward when dry ; articulations close, 26 

 to 30 ; cone blood-red ; partitions ciliate. — Sp. PI. 1107; Bryol. 

 Eur. t. 429. Filotrichum antipyretlcum^ Muell. Syn. ii. 148. 



Var. gigantea, Sulliv. More robust and less divided : 

 leaves larger, more closely imbricate, generally shining, pale 

 green or golden yellow, reddish when young, gradually smaller 

 toward the end of the branches : capsule smaller, less solid ; 

 teeth shorter ; cone less regularly latticed. — Icon. IMusc. 106, 

 t. 66. F. gigantea^ Sulliv. in Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bor.-Amer. 

 Exsicc. n. 224. F. Eatoni, Sulliv. 1. c, n. 224'=- 



Had. Shallow creeks; not common. The variety in rivulets of the 

 plains and in mountain streams; very common. 



2. F. Oalifornica, Sulliv. Stems very soft and much 

 divided, all foliate : leaves open, concave, distant, broadly oval, 

 loosely areolate ; primordial utricles of the cells not quite dis- 

 solved : fruit unknown. — Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 189. 



Hab. Rivulets in the Coast Ranges north of the Bay of San Francisco 

 [BUjelovs). 



Resembling F. antipyretica, var. f/igantea, but a somewhat smaller 

 plant, with more distant spi'eading shorter broailer and less acmninate 

 leaves, with a loose areolation of shorter and wider cells, in which the 

 primordial utricle is more or less conspicuous; color reddish brown or 

 copperish. 



3. P. Neo-Mexicana, Sulliv. & Lesq. Rigid, yellowish 

 or dirty green, shining when dry ; stems much divided with 

 long branches, naked below : leaves open-erect, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, more or less plicate ; cells of the areolation narrow, thick- 

 walled, those of the subauriculate decurrent base enlarged, 

 oblong, ferruginous ; upper perichaetial leaves ovate-oblong, 

 abruptly cuspidate, upper areolation linear, and base of the leaves 

 marked with reddish orange lines : male plants more slender ; 

 perigonial leaves numerous : capsule ovate-oblong, smaller than 

 in F. aiitipgretica ; lid conical, obtuse ; teeth with 20 articu- 

 lations; cone latticed and papillate. — Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. 

 n. 224*^; Aust. Muse. Appal, n. 251*'; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. Suppl. 

 76, t. 57. F. antipyretica^ var., Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bor.- 

 Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 2), n. 334. F. 3Tercediana, Lesq. Proc. 

 Calif. Acad. i. 28. 



