BARTRAMIACE^.] 214 [Philonotis. 



Dioicous ; more robust, in large bright green tufts, with dense dark- 

 brown tomentum. Leaves uniform, large, crowded, secund or 

 subfalcate, ovato-lanc., acuminate, acute, those of male shoot often 

 incumbent, smaller with shorter points ; sharply serrate at margin, 

 revolute at base and with a faint plait near the margin, the falcate 

 leaves revolute on one side to point ; nerve thicker and more solid ; 

 cells laxer, with weaker papillae. Perich. bracts elongated, capsule 

 horizontal, ovato-globose, with many striae, lid conical obtuse ; teeth 

 of peristome from a broad base, reddish-yellow, endostome orange. 

 Perigonial bracts from an erect yellow base, spreading horizontally, 

 longly lane., acutely pointed, nerved to the apex, finely serrate. 



HAB. Deep moorland bogs in limestone districts. Plentiful in Teesdale 

 where it was first found by Dr. Spruce in 1843. Fr. 7. 



Very near to P. fontana, but the colour is so different that it has quite a 

 distinct aspect. The laxer areolation, and acutely acuminate perigonial 

 bracts are distinctive. 



7. PHILONOTIS ADPRESSA Fergus. 



Infl. unknown ; plants long, slender in loose tufts, without tomentum. 

 Leaves uniform distant, appressed, broadly ovate nerved to apex, the 

 point bluntish and incurved. (T. LXXVIII, D.) 



SYN. Philonotis adpressa (non HOOK. WILS.) FERGUSSON in lit. HUNT in Mem. Lit. Phil. Soc. 

 Manch. v. 102 (1872). HOBK. Synops. 130 (1873). LIMPR. in RABENH. D. kr. fl. 

 Laubm. ii, 574 (1893). 



P. fontana var. adpressa FERG. LIMPR. Krypt. fl. Schles. i, 116 (1875). 



Plants slender elongated, dull or glaucous green, in loose tufts 

 readily falling asunder and with scarcely any tomentum, and only a 

 few short axillar shoots, the stems thin and brittle. Leaves uniform, 

 loose and distant, appressed, broadly ovate, decurrent, very concave, 

 the apex incurved bluntish or acute, margin revolute at base, serrate 

 with mostly double mamillse, nerve very strong ending just before the 

 apex, very rough at back, with a single plait on each side at base ; 

 cells small ovoid above, oval and longish at base ; in the greater part of 

 the leaf the middle of the cell-lumen is strongly mamillose, in the 

 upper cells the mamilla is near the lower end. 



HAB. About mountain springs, rare. 



Glen Prosen and Glen Dole, Clova (Fcrgnsson 1868). Glas Mheal, Perthshire (Hunt 

 1868) ! Moy Laggan, Perthshire (Mrs. Farquharsun 1879) ! Spring under Scaur-na- 

 Gillean, Skye (Binstcad 1885) ! ! Ben Lawers (Dlxon 1893). 



