DicranacejE.] 169 [Oncophonis. 



on both sides, papillae longish ; nerve thin, vanishing below apex, cells 

 very small, roundish-quadrate, the basal elongated, diaphanous. Cap- 

 sule pale becoming brownish, on a flexuose pale pedicel, erect or 

 subcernuous, oval and oblong, striate, the neck inconspicuous, not 

 strumose ; lid long beaked, smooth at margin, annulus persistent, of 

 2 rows of cells ; teeth 2 — rarely 3 — fid below middle, rufous red, 

 remotely articulate. 



Hab. — Fissures of alpine rocks ; very rare. Fr. 8. 



Glen Phee, Clova {Fergusson 1868). 



This was sent as 0. polycaypus by the Rev. Mr. Fergusson, as well as 

 true specimens of that plant, and hence it is probable that they grew together, 

 and at first sight it is not an easy matter to discriminate them. Perhaps the 

 distinction will be best apprehended by a comparison of the figures of the 

 leaves and bracts, and of their apices and areolation. O. polycarpus has the 

 leaves papillose only on the back towards apex, while in O. gmcilescens 

 both surfaces are distinctly so. It will doubtless be met with in other places 

 now that attention is drawn to it. 



5. ONCOPHORUS POLYCARPUS [Ehrh.) Brid. 



Autoicous ; csespitose. Leaves crowded, flexuose, lanceolate- 

 subulate, acute, faintly papillose, denticulate at point. Caps, erect, 

 oblong, not strumose, with a tapering neck. (T. XXV, E.) 



Syn.— DtVraHHm^o/ycaj'/?™ Ehrh. PI. crypt, exs. n. 84 (1786). Roth Fl. germ, iii, P. I, 187 

 (1800). SwARTz Muse. suec. 32 (1799). Smith Fl. brit. iii, 1227 (1804), Eng. Bot. t, 

 2269. Brid. Sp. muse. I, 102 (1806), Mant. 66 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 397 (1826). Web 

 MOHR Bot. Taseh. 179 (1807). Schwaeg Suppl. I, P. I, 179 (1811). VoiT Muse, 

 herbip. 30 {1812). Mart. Fl. cr. erl. 102 (1817). Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. 57, t. 18, 

 p p. (1818). FuNCK Moost. 29, t. 20 (1821). Hook. Fl. scot. P. ^, 133 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 

 39 (1833). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 737 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 253 (1833), 

 De Not. Syllab. 210 (1838). Hartm. Skand. Fl. Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 37—4°. P 

 14, t. 2 (1847). Rabenh. Deutseh. kr. fi. ii, S. 3, 137 (1848). C. Muell. Synops ii, 591 

 (1851). WiLS. Bry. brit. 65, t. 18 (1855). 



Brymi medium Vill. PI. Dauph. iii, 878 {1786). 



Fissidens polycarpos Hedw. Muse, frond, ii, 85, t. 31 (1788), Sp. muse. 159 (1801). Brid. 

 Muse. ree. H, P. I, 150 (1798). Roehl. Moosg. Deutseh. 305 {1800). Wahlenb. Fl. 

 carp. 343 {1814).! 



Bryim polycarpon Hoffm. Deutseh. fl. ii, 37 (1796). 



Cecalyphum muUiflorum P. Beauv. Prodr. 51 (1805). 



Oncophorus polycarpus Brid. Bry. univ. i, 397 (1826). 



Cymdontium polycarpwn Schimp. Bry. eur. CoroU 12 (1855), Synops. 62 (i860), 2 ed. 63 

 MiLDE Bry. siles, 50 (1869). De Not. Epil. bri. ital. 280 (1869). Juratz. Laubm. 

 oesterr.-ung. 27 (1882). 



Didymodon jfenncri Schimp. MSS. Howie in Trans. Edinb. Bot. Soe. ix, 198 (1868). 



Autoicous ; more robust i — 2 in. high, radiculose, pale green above, 

 fuscous at base. Leaves crowded, gradually larger upward, flexuoso- 

 patent, less crisped when dry, longer, from an oblong base, narrowly 

 lineal-lanceolate-subulate, acute, serrulate at apex, less papillose, nerve 

 lost at apex, margin recurved, serrate at point ; basal cells elongated 



