NECKERACEA.] 



2IO \Fontinalis. 



i. FONTINALIS ANTIPYRETIC A Z. 



Dioicous ; robust, dull green. Stems long, robust, triquetrous-leaved, 

 the leaves decurrent, ovate-lanceolate, sharply keeled, reflexed on one side 

 at margin. Capsule immersed, perich. bracts large rounded. (T. CXXII, B.) 



Sw.-Huscus aquaticus terrtstri vulgari similis, W major RAY Synops. 17 n. 7 (1690). 



Fontinalis triangularis major complicate, e foliorum alis capsulifera DILL. Hist. muse. 254, 

 t. 33, f. i 074i)etHerb. 



Fontinalis antipyretica L. Sp. plant. 1107 (1753)- HUDS. Fl. Angl. 398 (1762). WEISS 

 Grot Goett 261 (1770) WITHER. Bot. arrang. ii, 691 (i7?6). LIGHTF. Fl. Scot, n, 

 694 0777)- NECK. Del. gallo-belg. ii, 441 (1778). HEDW. Fund I, t 5, f. 27 et II, 97, 

 I f 5 et t. 4 , f. 14-15 i et t. 9, f- 53-55 (1782), Sp. muse. 298 (1801). RELHAN Fl. 

 cant 395 (1785). ROTH Tent. fl. germ, i, 478 (1788). SIBTH. Fl. oxon. 293 (1794). 

 HOFFM Deuts. fl. ii, 79 (1795)- SWARTZ Muse. suec. 72 (1799). BRID. Muse. rec. Ill, 

 K7 (1801), Sp. muse. Ill, 107 (1817), Mant. 186 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 655 (1827). 

 SMITH Fl. Brit. 1336 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 359 . TURN. Muse. hib. 199 (1804). P. BEAUV. 

 Prodr. 57 (1805). SCHULTZ Fl. Starg. 356 (1806). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 376 (1 807). 

 WAHLEN. Fl. Lapp. 382 (1812), Fl. Carpat. 353 (1814). ROEHL. Deutsch. fl. iii, 121 (1813). 

 SCHWAEG. Supp. I, P. II, 507 (1816). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. Brit. 82 (1818), Fl. Scot. P. 2, 

 138(1821). FUNCK Moost. 67, t. 53 (1821). GRAY Nat. arrang. i, 749 (1821). HUEBEN. 

 Muse Germ. 700 (1833). DE NOT. Syll. I (1838), Epilogo 60 (1869). BR. SCH. Bry.Eur. 

 fasc. 16, p. 4, t. 2 (1842). RABENH. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 245 (1848). WILS. Bry. Brit. 423 

 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 456 (1860), 2 ed. 552. BERK. Handb. 62. t. 3 (1863). MILDE 

 Bry. Siles. 275 (1869). HOBK. Synops. 185 (1873). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 268 

 (1884). BOULAY Muse. Fr. 189 (1884). HUSN. Muse. Gall. 285, t. 80 (1892). LIMPR. 

 in RABENH. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 652, fig. 325 (1894). Dix. JAMES. Stud. Handb. 353 (1896). 

 CARDOT Monogr. 48 (1902). 



Hypnum antipyreticum NECK. Meth. muse. 191 (1771). 

 Fontinalis trifaria VOIT Muse. Herbip. 125 (1812). 

 Piloirichum antipyreticum C. MUELL. Synops. ii, 148 (1851). 



Dioicous ; not glossy, in yellowish or olivaceous green floating tufts. 

 Stems 10 20 in. long, repeatedly divided, irregularly fasciculate-branched, 

 obtuse at points, naked at base, triquetrous-leaved. Leaves decurrent, 

 broadly ovato-lanceolate, keeled and folded together, the line of keel curved, 

 margin reflexed at base on one side, entire ; cells elongated rhomboido- 

 hexagonal, larger and rectangular at basal angles, all incrassate. Peri- 

 chaetial bracts large, broad and roundish, sheathing the capsule to the lid. 

 Capsule ovate olive-green or brown, contracted below mouth when dry ; 

 lid conic, teeth of peristome, when dry, loosely curled inward, purple, 

 papillose, endostome blood-red, papillose, the transverse bars with 23 

 projecting appendages. 



HAB. Stones in rivulets and on wood by river banks. Fr. 67. 

 Var. /3. gigantea Sulliv. 



Plants very stout, not glossy, brownish-green or rufescent on one side, with 

 few short branches. Leaves crowded, indistinctly trifarious, broad, ovate, obtuse. 

 the margin slightly recurved at base on both sides, not auricled. 



