FissiDENTACE^.] 71 [Ftsstdens. 



F. incurvus, and yet there is a great apparent difference in the capsules which 

 is our chief reason for keeping them separate. Lindberg regards it as a 

 subspecies of F. incurvus. 



Var. p. fontanus {ScUmp.) 



Taller and more robust ; stem \ — 2 in. long, flexuose, ascending or 

 submersed, simple or dichotomous ; leaves multijugous, rather distant, 

 deep green, large and succulent, nerve vanishing below apex as also does 

 the border, which is thicker and obsoletely denticulate toward point. 

 Seta stout, reddish yellow, capsule erect or suboblique, obovate, pale 

 brown, lid conico-rostellate. 



Syn. — Fiss. incurmts var. /?. fontanus Br. Schimp. Br. Eur. i, Mon. 7, 1. 1 j8. et var. cvassipes 

 ScHiMP. Synops. 104. HuSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 62. 



Fiss. fontanus Schimp MSS. 



Fiss. crasstpes WiLS. MSS. Br. Schimp. Br. Eur. Mon. Suppl. i.n.g. Milde Bry. 

 Siles. 82. De Not. Epil. Briol. Ital. 484. Hobk. Syn. Br. m. 136. Schimp. Synops. 

 2 ed. 113. 



Fiss. viridulus var. y. major Wils. Bry. Brit. 303, t. 53, y. 

 Hab. — Attached to woodwork and stones in sluices. Fr. 9 — 10. 



Ireland (Turner 1809). Hulme (Wilson 1844) ! ! York and Castle Howard (Spruce) ! 

 Ashley sluice, Bowden (Hunt 1863) ! ! Sandford Lasher, Oxford (Boswell 1864) ! ! 

 Bath (Mrs. Hopkins 1861) ! Wrexham (Wilson 1863) ! ! Croft, Thirsk, and Topcliffe 

 (Baker). Eaton Bishop, Hereford (Rev. A. Ley). Tothill (Holmes). 



Like all aquatic mosses the leaves are of thicker substance, and dark 

 green colour. The male inflorescence appears to be very scarce. 



5. FISSIDENS BEYOIDES (L.) Hedw. 



Autoicous, with the male infl. axillary ; leaves oblongo-ligulate, 

 acute, with athickish hyaline border, nerve reaching point or excurrent, 

 capsule ovate, erect or inclined, lid conico-rostellate. (T. X, E.) 



Syn. — Muscus folytrichoides exiguus, capitulis in extremis caulictilis seufoliis, sitbrottmdis erectis 

 Ray Syn. St. Brit. 2 ed. 35, n. 4 (1696). 



Hypnuni repens Jilicifoliuni, nan ramosum, pediculis brevlorihus versus foliorttm summit, 

 egredientibus Dill, in Ray Syn. 3 ed. 88, n. 42 (1724). 



Hypnum taxiforme exiguum versus summitatem capsuliferum Dill. Hist. muse. 262, t. 34, 



f. I (1741) ; et Herb. 

 Hyp.bryoides'L.Sf.fl. ii, 1123(1753) ; Fl. suec. 1012; Syst. Veg. 950. Huds. Fl. angl. 418 



(1762). Weiss Cr. Gott. 217 {1770) ; Fl. Dan. t. 473. Neck. meth. muse. 152 (1771). 



With. Bot. arr. Br. veg. 680 (1776). Liohtf. Fl. Scot, ii, 739 (1777). Relh. Fl. cant. 



408 (1785). Web. Spic. Fl. Gott. 46 (1778). Vill. PI. Dauph. iii, 894 (1786). Hoffm. 



Deutsch. Fl. ii, 55 (1796). Abbot Fl. bedf. 244 (1798). Hull Br. Fl. P. 2, 267 (1799). 



Eng. Bot. t. 625 (1799), p.p. 



Fiss. bryoides Hedv/. Fund. muse. P. 2, 91 (1782) ; Muse. fr. iii, 67, t. 29 (1792) ; Sp. 

 muse. 135 (1801). Roth Fl. germ, i, 459 (1788). Brid. muse. rec. ii, P. 2, 139 (1801) ; 

 Sp. muse. I, 164 (1806) ; Mant. 188 (1819) ; Bry. univ. ii, 686 (1827). Rohl. Moosg. 

 Deutsch. 288 (1800). P. Beauv. Prodr. 57 (1805). Schultz Fl. Starg. 297 (1806). 

 ScHWAEGR. Suppl. i, P. II, 7 (1816). FuNCK moostasch. 33, t. 22, f. 3 (1821). Hartm. 

 Skand. Fl. Hueben. muse. germ. 219 (1833). Br. Schimp. Bry. Eur. i, Mon. 8, t. 2 

 (1843) ; Syn. muse. 103 (i860), et 2 ed. iii (1876). Rabenh. Deutsch. Kr. Fl. ii, P. 3, 

 305 (1848). C. Muell. Syn. muse, i, 58 (1849). Wils. Bry. Brit. 304, t. 16 (1855). 

 Berk. Handb. Br. m. 159 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 81 (1869). De Not. Epil. Bri. 

 ital. 483 (1869). Hobk. Syn. Br. m. 136 (1873). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest 61 (1873). 



