OCTODICERAS JULIANUM BRID. IN BRITAIN 53 
Q. suttanum Brid. Bryol. Univ. ii. 678 (1827). 
Syn. Skitophyllum fontanum La Py, 
Fontinalis Juliana Savi, 
Fissidens debilis Schwaegr. 
Conomitrium Julianum Mont. 
Autoicous; all the flowers axillary, rooting at the base, fre- 
quently male and female buds in the same leaf-axi ; male flowers 
small, 2- and 3-leaved, with 6 antheridia; antheridium -14 mm 
female flowers larger, with scale-like bracts and two perichatial 
linear, rather obtuse, margin entire, non-bordered ; dorsal lamina 
not reaching the leaf-base; nerve ending some distance before the 
leaf-apex, showing in section 2(—4) large basal cells, and 
inner cells. Leaf-cells 4—6-sided, thin-walled, 14-18 » in diameter, 
smaller (8 ~) at the margin. Fruiting branches elongated, with 
small leaves. Seta -75 mm. long, upright, yellow, strongly swollen 
above the vaginula (up to ‘18 mm. thick) ; vaginula almost cylin- 
drical, short. Capsule small, erect, regular, green, thin-walled ; 
the spore-containing portion +5 mm. ng, cup-shaped, wide- 
mouthed. Calyptra stout, shorter than the lid, conical, irregularly 
matous cells, Spores 18-21 p, yellow-green, weakly granular; ripe 
M spring and summer, 
4, On stones in and by the borders of streams. Through- 
out the whole of Kurope ; North Africa ; North America. 
Brrrary,—River-beds, attached to stones, boulders, and rocks ; 
Sometimes to timber. River Severn, Worcestershire and Shrop- 
shire, Fruit rare, not found in Britain. 
. Description or Prater 430. 
Figs, 1-11.—Octodiceras julianum Brid. 1. Plant aboutnat. size. 2. Stem- 
»X rites 3. Areolation of superior lamina of same, X 0: 4. 
Calyptra, 3c a ay eondition x 35. 7. Single tooth of peristome, x ie * 
J Ba, x 35. (Fi drawn from specimen from Bewdley (leg. 
 2)s 5-11, trom a continental specimen. 
