FissiDENTACEiE.] 70 IFtssidens. 



from the lower part of a barren shoot, capsule shorter, reddish-brown, 

 peristome paler. Male infl. gemmiform, near the base of stem. 



Syn. — Hypnum tamarindif. Don. in lit. sec. Smith. 



Dicramim tamarindif. Sm. F1. Brit. 1231. Turn. muse. Hib. 55. 



Skitophyllum tamarindif. La Pyl. in Desv. Journ. Bot. 1813, t. 37, 



Fissidens tamarindif. Brid. Sp. muse. I, 165 ; Mant. 187, et Bry. un. 684, p.p. WiLS. Bry. 

 Brit. 308, t. 53. Berk. Handb. Br. m. 157. Hobk. Syn. Br. m. 138. 



Fiss, trichomanoides Wils. MSS. 

 Hab. — On clay soil, banks and fallow fields. Fr. 2 — 3. 



Near Forfar (Don). Near Over, Cheshire, and Warrington (Wilson) ! Stansfield, 

 Todmorden and Heptonstall [Nomell 1850) ! ! Hurstpierpoint (Mitten). Oakmere, 

 Ashley and Clifton Junction (Hunt 1863) ! Roskelly Cliff, Penzance (Curnow 1865) ! ! 



This variety is distinguished by the great abundance of sterile surculi, ' 

 but otherwise it presents no structural diiferences to separate it from F. 



4. FISSIDENS VIRIDTJLIJS [Swartz) WahUnh. 



Autoicous ; very small, simple ; leaves lanceolate, bordered, entire, 

 acute, nerved to apex ; capsule erect or a little inclined, symmetric, 

 oval-oblong, lid conic, acuminate. (T. X, D.) 



Syn. — Bryum viridulum L. in Herb. p.p. 



Dicranum viridulum SwARTz Muse. Suec. 84, t. 2, f. 3 (1799). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 



161 (1807). ScHKUHR Deutsch. Kr. Gew. P. 11, 81, t. 36 (1810). Voit Muse. Herbip. 



37 (i8i2)- 

 Fissidens virid. Wahlene. F1. lapp. 334 (1812), Fl. carp. 342 (1814). Wils. Bry. Brit. 



3031 '• S3 (1855). Berk. Handb. Br. m. 159 (1863). Hobk. Syn. Br. m. 136 (1873). 



Fiss. exilis Funck Moostasch. t. 22, n. i (1821), non Hedw. 



Fiss. incurvus p.p. Br. Schimp. Bry. Eur. i, Men. 6, t. i (1843), Syn. muse. 104 (i860) et 

 2 ed. 112 (1876). 



Fiss. bryoides p.p. Bridel et pi. auct. 



Autoicous ; stems short, slender, inclined. Leaves 5 — 8-jugous, pale 

 green, crisped when dry, lanceolate, acute, nerved to apex, border 

 vanishing usually at point, vag. lam. about half length of leaf, inf. lam. 

 ceasing before reaching base. Capsule leptodermous, symmetric, erect 

 or inclined, sometimes more or less oblique, oval, olivaceous-brown, 

 seta pale ; lid conico-rostellate, red ; peristome arising below mouth of 

 capsule. Male infl. terminal on a branch at base of fertile stem, some- 

 times becoming dioicous. 



Hab. — On clay banks, sandstone rocks and stones; not uncommon, 

 Fr. II — 2. 



St. Vincent's rocks (Wilson i85o). Clitheroe and Pontefract (Dr. Wood) ! Plymouth 

 (Holmes) ! ! Knowle (Bagnall). Melrose (Jordan). Howth (Orr). Ecelesbourne 

 (Holmes) ! ! Barmouth (Rogers) ! ! Beekhole, Whitby (Braithwaite 1858) ! ! 



Swartz's specimens in Smith's herb, have the capsule perfectly sym- 

 metric and erect. By all continental Botanists of our own time this is united to 



