FissidentacejE.J 77 [Fissidens. 



Gale green {Wilson 1837). Stokenchurch woods, Oxon {Dr. Ayres 1841) ! Beddgelert, 

 Dennant and Conway (Wilson 1861) ! 1 Croesor and Rhaglans (Wilson 1863) ! High 

 rocks, Tunbridge wells (Mitten). Treveylor valley, Penzance (Curnow 1868) ! ! Levens 

 and Rayrigg, near Bowness, Westmoreland ^ , 2 (Barnes 1869) ! ! Beeston Castle 

 hill (Wilson 1836). Fin Glen, Campsie, and Tarbet, Cantire (Hunt 1864) ! Llanberis 

 (Col. Palgrave 1865). Ben Voirlich (Shaw 1862). Glengariff and Kenmare road (Hunt 

 1864) ! Muckross (Wilson 1866). 



In general aspect this moss comes nearest to F. taxifoUus and in structure 

 to F. adiantoides, but the leaf cells are decidedly smaller than in the latter 

 species, and the pale border more marked. 



II. FISSIDENS TAXIFOLIUS (L.) Hedw. 



Autoicous ; fasciculate at base ; leaves oblongo-ligulate, nerve 

 excurrent, margin minutely serrate ; capsule from base of stem, oblong, 

 cernuous, lid rostrate. (T. XI, D.) 



Syn. — Muscus filicifolius seu pennatus minor, pinnulis plurimis ad mediant costam annexis 

 latiusculis crebris Ray Syn. st. Brit. 2 ed. 35 (1696). 



Hypnum repens filicifolium non ramosum, pediculis brevioribus ad radicem egredientibus 

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



Hyp. taxiforme minus basi capsuliferum Dill. Hist. muse. 263, t. 34, f. 2 (1741) ; et Herb. 



Hyp. taxifolium L. Sp. pi. ii, 1122 (1753) ; Fl. Suec. 1013 ; Syst. Nat. 708. HuDS. Fl. angl. 



418 (1762). Weiss Crypt, gott. 216 {1770). Neck. Meth. muse. 151 (1771). With. 



Bot. arr. Br. veg. 680 (1776). Lightf. Fl. scot, ii, 740 (1777). Web. Sp. Fl. gott. 43 



^1778). Fl. Dan. t. 473,f. i. Relh. Fl. cant. 407 (1785). Vill. PI. Dauph. iii, 894 



(1786). HoFFM. Deutsch. Fl. ii, 55 (1796). Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 426. Abbot Fl. bedf. 244 



(1798). Hull Br. Fl. P. 2, 267 (1799). 

 Fissidens taxifoUus Hedw. Fund. muse. P. H, gi (1782); Sp. muse. 135, t. 39, f. i — 5 



(1801). Roth Fl. germ, i, 459 (1788). Rohl. Moosg. Deutsch. 228 (1800) ; Deutsch. 



Fl. iii, 77 (1813). P. Beauv. Prodr. 57 (1805). Schultz Fl. Starg. 292 (1806). Brid. 



Sp. muse, i, 168 (1806) ; Mant. muse. i8g (1819) ; Bry. univ. ii, 692 (1827). Wahlen. 



Fl. Lapp. 332 (1812) ; Fl. carp. 342 {1814). Schwaegr. Suppl. I, P. II, 10 (1816). 



Mart. Fl. cr. Erl. no (1817). Funck Moost. 33, t. 22 (1821). Hueeen. Muse. germ. 



222 {1833). De Not. Syll. muse. n. 115 (1838); Epil. briol. ital. 481 {1869). Br. 



ScHiMP. Br. eur. i, Mon. 9, t. 4 (1843) ; Syn. muse. 108 (i860), et 2 ed. 118 (1876). 



Raeenh. Deutsch. Kr. Fl. ii, P. 3, 305 (1848). C. Muell. Syn. muse, i, 50 (1849). 



WiLS. Bry. Brit. 308, t. 16 (1855). Hartm. Skand. Fl. Berk. Handb. Br. m. 157, 



t. 14, f. 3 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 83 (i86g). Hobk. Syn. Br. m. 138 (1873).' 



HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest 62 (1873). 



Ftiscina taxifolia Schrank Balers. Fl. ii, 451 (1789). 



Dicranum taxifolium Sibth. Fl. oxon. 279 (1794). Roth. Fl. germ, iii, 180 (1795). 

 Swartz Muse. Suec. 31 (1799). Smith Fl. brit. iii, 1233 (1804). Turn. muse. hib. 56 

 (1804). Lam. De C. Fl. franc, i, 480 {1805). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 165 (1807). 

 Schkuhr Deutsch. Kr. Gew. P. II, 83, t. 37 (1810). VoiT muse. herb. 37 (1812). Hook. 

 Tay. Muse. brit. 51, t. 16 (1818). Gray Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 734 (1821). Bals. De Not. 

 Pr. Bry. med. 132 (1834). Mack. Fl. hibern. P. is, 22 {1836). 



Shitophyllum taxifolium La Pyl. in Desv. Journ. Bot. 1813, p. 60, t. 35, f. 10. 



Schistophyllum taxifolium Brid. MSS. Lindb. 



Autoicous, (rhizautoicous) ; in dark green depressed tufts, fascicu- 

 late branched from base, branches suberect or decumbent, covered with 

 numerous radicles at base. Leaves multijugous, crowded, expanded, 

 incurved when dry, oblongo-ligulate, decreasing in size towards base and 

 apex of stem ; nerve excurrent, margin minutely hyalino-serrate ; vag. 

 lam. reaching half length, infer, lam. gradually narrowed from middle to 

 base, not decurrent. 



