BARTRAMIACE*.] 20Q [Philonotis. 



cernua WILS. in HOOK. Journ. Bot. iii, 383 (1841). Name only. 



555 (1893). 



Bartramia Wilsoni C. MUELL. Synops. i, 479 (1849). 

 Bartramidula cernua LINDB. Oefv. Vet.-Ak. Foerh. 1863, No. 7. 



Synoicous ; small slender procumbent at base, in little pale green 

 lax tufts. Leaves erecto-patent or subsecund, lanceolate, acute smooth, 

 margin flat, denticulate above ; cells lax, elongate rectangular above, 

 wider at base ; nerve ending below the point. Caps. 2 5 in one 

 perichsetium, very soft, globoso-pyriform with a short neck, on an 

 arcuate seta, cernuous, pale brown, not striate, wrinkled when dry ; lid 

 very small plano-convex ; peristome none. 



HAB. Heathy ground on mountains, rare. Fr. 10. 



Connor hill, Dingle (Wilson 1829)! Knockavohila, Kenmare (Taylor). Cwm Bychan 

 Harlech (Rev. T. Salwey 1841) ! Glen Dole, Clova (Croall). 



Except in the stations quoted, this pretty little moss has only been 

 recorded from the island of Fernando Po (Mann) ; its delicate capsule is usually 

 tinged with pink when growing, but this is lost in drying. About 30 species 

 of this group are known. 



2. PHILONOTIS RIGID A Brid. 



Autoicous; densely, caespitose, glossy. Leaves erect, straight, 

 lanceolate, serrulate with excurrent nerve. Caps, obliquely cernuous, 

 striate. (T. LXXVII, C.) 



Svx.Philonotis rigida BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 17 (1827). SCHIMP. Synops. 424 (1860), 2 ed. 

 517. DE NOT. Epilogo 259 (1869). JURATZ. Laubm. oeFter.-ung. 331 (1882). BOUL. 

 Muse, de Fr. 217 (1884). HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 149 (1884). HUSN. Muse. gall. 268, t. 

 74 (1890). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Luabm. ii, 558 (1893). 



Bartramia rigida BALS. DE NOT. Pugill. muse. I (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 102 (1838). 

 BR. SCH. Bry. eur. Fasc. 12, p. 20, t. n (1842). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 471 (1849). 

 WILS. Bry. brit. 278, t. 52 (1855). BERK. Handb. br. m. 171 (1863). HOBK. Synops. 

 129 (1873). 



Autoicous ; in small tufts, glossy brownish green above and dense 

 reddish tomentum at base. Stem short, vaguely and fasciculate 

 branched below the inflorescence, fragile. Leaves crowded erecto- 

 patent, appressed when dry, rigid, lanceolate, shortly aristate 

 with the stout excurrent nerve, margin sharply serrated, slightly 

 reflexed ; cells papillose at upper end, narrowly rectangular above, laxer 

 and wider at base. Perich. bracts few, shorter than vaginula, from a 



