FlSSIDENTACE^E.] 78 



Fruit from near base of stem, perich. bracts ovate, concave, pro- 

 longed into a sword-shaped lamina ; capsule on a longish flexuose red 

 pedicel, cernuous or drooping, oblong, subturgid, pachydermous, rufo- 

 fuscous, contracted below mouth when dry ; lid convex at base, with a 

 long curved beak, calyptra cucullate. Male infl. on short rooting ramuli, 

 bracts ovate, concave, pointed ; antheridia 2 3, without paraphyses. 

 HAS. On clay banks in woods, damp fields, and by road-sides. Fr. 10 12. 



Varying little, except in size, and readily known by the absence of 

 thickened border, crenulate margin, and excurrent nerve, and when fertile, 

 by the radical perichaetia. 



12. FISSIDENS ADIANTOIDES (L.) Hedw. 



Autoicous ; stem erect, branched ; leaves oblongo-lanceolate, acute, 

 serrulate above; seta from middle of stem, capsule ovate, lid long- 

 beaked. (T. XII, B.) 



SYN. Muscus filicifolius sen pennatus aquaticus maximus. RAY Synops. stirp. Brit. 2 ed. 35, n. 



2 (I6 9 6). ' 



Hypnum erectiim filicifolium ramosuni, pinnulis ncutis. DILL, in RAY Synops. 3 ed. 87, n. 



Hyp. taxiforme palustre ramosum, majus et erectum. DILL. Hist. muse. 264, n. 3, t. 34, 

 f. 3 (1741) ; et Herb. 



Hyp. adiantoides L. Sp. pi. ii, 1123 (1753); Syst. nat. ii, 703; Syst. Veg. 950. HUDS. 

 Fl. angl. 419 (1762). NECK. meth. muse. 153 (1771). WITH. Bot. arr. Br. veg. 681 

 (1776). LIGHTF. Fl. Scot, ii, 742 (1777). WEB. Spic. Gott. 48 (1778). RELH. Fl. cant. 



408 (1785). VILL. PI. Dauph. iii, 894 (1786). SM. Eng. hot. t. 264 (1795). HOFFM. 

 Deutsch. Fl. ii, 55 (1796). ABBOT Fl. bedf. 244 (1798). HULL Br. Fl. P. 2, 268 (1799). 



Fissidens adiantoides HEDW. Fund. Muse. P. II, 91 (1782) ; Muse, frond. 61, t. 26 (1792). 

 ROTH Fl. germ, i, 459 (1788). BRID. Muse. rec. ii, P. I, 145 (1792) ; Sp. muse, i, 171 

 (1806) ; Mant. muse. 191 (1819); Bry. univ. ii, 702 (1827). ROHL. Moosg. Deutsch. 295 

 (1800); Deutsch. Fl. iii, 77 (1813). P. BEAUV. Prodr. 57 (1805). SCHULTZ Fl. Starg. 292 

 (1806). SCHWAEGR. Suppl. I, P. II, 10 (1816). MART. Fl. cr. erl. 109 (1817). FUNCK 

 Moost. 33, t. 22 (1821). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 224 (1833). DE NOT. Syll. muse. n. 

 114 (1838) ; Epil. briol. ital. 478 (1869). BR. SCHIMP. Bry. eur. i, Mon. 10, t. 5 (1843) ; 

 Syn. muse. 108 (1860) et 2 ed. 119 (1876). RABENH. Deutsch. Kr. Fl. ii, P. 3, 306 

 (1848). C.MUELL. Syn. muse, i, 51 (1849). WILS. Bry. Brit. 307, t. 16 (1855). HARTM. 

 Skand. Fl. BERK. Handb. Br. m. 156, t. 14, f. 2 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 83 (1869). 

 HOBK. Syn. Br. m. 137 (1873). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 63 (1873). 



Dicranum adiantoides SIBTH. Fl. oxon. 280 (1794). ROTH. Fl. Germ, iii, 184 (1795). 

 SWARTZ Muse. Suec. 31 (1799). SMITH Fl. Brit, iii, 1234 (1804). TURN. Muse. hib. 57 

 (1804). LAM. DE C. Fl. franc, i, 480 (1805). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 164 (1807). 

 SCHKUHR Deutsch. Kr. Gew. P. II, 83, t. 37 (1810). VOIT Muse. herb. 36 (1812). HOOK. 

 TAYL. Muse. brit. 51, t. 16 (1818). GRAY Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 733 (1821). BALS. DE 

 NOT. Pr. Bry. med. 131 (1834). MACK. Fl. hibern. P. 2, 22 (1836). 



Fiss. taxifolius Var. ft. WAHLEN. Fl. Lapp. 332 (1812). 



Skitophyllum adiantoides LA PYL. in DESV. Jour. Bot. 1813, p. 55, t. 36, f. 15. 



Schistophyllum ad. BRID. MSS. LINDBERG. 



Autoicous ; in large bright green or yellowish green tufts. Stems 

 i 5 in. high, generally prostrate at base, with subfasciculate branches, 

 which are radiculose at base. Leaves multijugous, flattened or subse- 

 cund, crowded and covering each other at base, oblong and oblongo- 

 ligulate, suddenly acuminulate ; nerve vanishing in the apex ; all margin 



