BARTRAMIACE.E.] 210 [Philonotis. 



broadly ovate base, lanceolate-subulate. Caps, on a long red seta, large 

 globose with a narrow mouth, striate, pale brown, lid convex apiculate ; 

 teeth of peristome shorter dark purple, incurved when dry, with inter- 

 lamellar thickenings in the upper half, endostome orange, papillose. 

 Male infl. near the female, gemmiform, bracts ovato-lanc. 

 HAB. Wet rocks and sandy banks ; rare. Fr. 6 



Bantry (Miss Hutchins). Maghanabo Glen, Dingle (Wilson 1829). Dunkerron and 

 Killarney (Taylor) ! ! Mousehole cave, Penzance (Curnow). Beddgelert (Hunt) ! ! 

 Friog, Monmouth (Percival 1877). Arklow (Moore"* ! Sulby Glen, Kirkmichael, Laxey 

 and near Douglas, Isle of Man (Holt 1886) ! ! Porthmear cove, W. Cornwall 

 (Marquand 1880). 



This species is allied to P. marchica (WiLLD.) BRID. A moss which has 

 been reported more than once as British, and ought to be found here, as it 

 is met with throughout Europe, but hitherto it has not been identified among 

 native specimens. P. marchica is dioicous, the leaves with plane margins, 

 and acute pointed perigonial bracts ; otherwise it resembles a slender state 

 of P. fontana which has generally been mistaken for it. 



Sect. 2. EUPHILONTIS. Plants more robust, erect ; cuticle of stem 

 formed of large leptodermous hyaline cells. Dioicous, $ discoid. 



3. PHILONOTIS OESPITOSA Wils. 



Dioicous; densely tufted, short and slender. Leaves biform, the 

 appressed ovate with plane margins, the secund subfalcate, lanceolate, 

 all non-plicate. Capsule horizontal. (T. LXXVII, E.) 



SYN. Philonotis caspitosa WILS. MSS. MILDE Bry. siles. 241 -(1869). HOBK Synops. 130 

 (1873). HUSN. Muse. gall. 269, t. 75 (1890). LIMPR. in RABENH. D, kr. fl. Laubm. 

 ii, 570 (1893). 



Philonotis fontana (3. cczspitosa LIMPR. Krypt. fl. v. Schl. 116 (1875). HOBK. Synops. 2 ed. 

 150 (1884). BOUL. Muse, de Fr. 216 (1884). 



Dioicous ; in soft dense dull-green tufts, stems slender, i 2 in. high, 

 united by blackish-brown tomentum, the branches falcate at point. 

 Leaves biform, the appressed leaves ovate, concave, pointed, with plane 

 margins, the secund leaves subfalcate, lanceolate, with long points, all 

 without plaits and the margins with distant small teeth; nerve thin, 

 shortly excurrent ; upper cells thick-walled, narrow, with a papilla at 

 the lower angle, the basal oval and rectangular, smooth. Capsule 

 resembling that of P. fontana. Male plants shorter, the bracts erecto- 

 patent, very broadly ovate, acutely pointed, nerved to the apex. 



HAB. Swamps and boggy heaths, rare and sterile. Fr. 6. 



Walton Swamps, Cheshire (Wilson 1860) ! ! Harts hill, Henfield, Grendon, Curdworth, 

 footways near Hockley and Studley all in Warwickshire (Bagnall). 



Resembling P. marchica in aspect and not found with fruit in this 

 country. A section of the stem is not unlike that of Sphagnum subsecundum. 



