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Has. — On dripping stones near the Obelisk bridge in Castle-Howard Park {Spruce 1844) ! ! 



Dr. Spruce having kindly favoured me with specimens of this plant, I can 

 only confirm the accuracy of his description both of the type and variety ; 

 like him I have also failed in finding any plants with the male infl. situated 

 as described by Schimper. 



3. FISSIDENS INCURVUS Starke. 



Autoicous ; leaves oblongo-lanceolate, narrowly bordered, apiculate ; 

 capsule cernuous, irregular, incurved, lid conico-rostellate. (T. X, C.) 



Syn. — Fissidens incurvus Starke MSS. Rohl. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 76 (1813). Schwaegr. Suppl. 

 I, P. II, p. 5, t. 49 (1816). FuNCK Moostasch. 32, t. 22, n. 2 (1821). Br. Schimp. Br. 

 Eur. i, Men. 6, t. i, p.p. (1843) ; Syn. muse. 104 (i860) ; et 2 ed. 112 (1876). Rabenh. 

 Deutsch. Kr. Fl. ii, P. Ill, 304 (1848). Berk. Handb. Br. m. 160 (1863). Milde Bry. 

 Siles. 81 (i86g). De Not. Epil. Briol. Ital. 485 {1869). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest 61 

 (1873). HoBK. Syn. Br. m. 136 (1873). 



Dicranum incurvum Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 162 and 465 (1807). Schkuhr Deutsch. Kr. 

 Gew. P. II, 82, t. 37 (1810). 



Dicr. viridulum Sm. Fl. Brit, iii, 1230 (1804), Eng. Bot. t 1368, quoad descr. 



Dicr. bryoides var. /?. Hook. Tay. Muse. Br. 49 (i8i8). 



Fiss. bryoides var. y. Hues. Muse. germ. 2ig (1833). 



Fiss. tamarindifolius Brid Bry. un. 684, p.p. (1827). 



Fiss. viridulus var. e. incurvus WiLS. Bry. Brit. 303, t. 53 £. (1855). 



Fiss. sardous De Not. Epil. Briol. Ital. 486 (1869). 



Autoicous ; gregarious or somewhat csespitose ; stem very short, 

 slender, ascending. Leaves 4 — 6-jugous, firm, flat or decurved, oval- 

 oblong and lineal-lanceolate, apiculate, nerved to apex, with a very 

 narrow border becoming wider toward base ; vag. lam. lanceolate, half 

 length of leaf, infer, lam. lanceolate, very narrow at base ; cells small, 

 rounded. Seta long, red, capsule pachydermous, cernuous or horizontal, 

 pale brown, arcuato-incurved, with a distinct neck, oval or subcylindric ; 

 lid conic, rostellate, red ; calyptra pale, rostrate ; peristome not inserted 

 below the mouth. Male at the base of female, gemmiform, on a very 

 short branch ; bracts broadly obovate with a small vertical lamina. 

 Hab. — Clay banks and pastures. Fr. 2 — 4. 



Near York (Spruce) 1 Orford Park, Warrington (Wilson). Hurstpierpoint (Mitten). 

 Hareley wood, Todmorden (Nowell 1853) 1 1 Castle mills, Ashley mill and Butt's Clough 

 (Hunt) ! I Buckland, Faringdon (Mrs. Milne) ! ! Iffley and Watereaton, Oxon (Boswell 

 1861) ! Marple (Scholejield 1868) ! Durdham Downs (Miss Atwood 1854) ! Merton 

 Heath, Dorset (Rev. H. Wood). Solihull (Bagnall). Truro (Curnow). 



In the typical form figured this species appears to be distinct enough, 

 but other states are met with in which the capsule is but slightly curved, 

 and thus differing but little from that of the next species, while the leaves 

 of both are nearly alike. After the fall of the lid, the capsule loses much of 

 its curvature and becomes horizontal. 



Var. /?. tamarindifolius Don. 



Stems taller, fasciculate from the base ; leaves multijugous, more 



distant, shorter, broader, crisped when dry. Fertile branch springing 



