Bartramiace^.] 208 [Philonotis. 



occupying almost the whole subula, cells at base, linear, above 

 rectangular. Caps, inclined, spherical, striate, pale brown, when dry 

 oblong incurved, deeply sulcate, lid conical, muticous j teeth rufo-fuscous, 

 endostome orange, half length of teeth. 



Hab, — On the ground and clefts of rocks in the mountains. Common. Fr. 6. 

 Resembling a small state of B. pomiformis, but readily distinguished by 

 the straight subulate leaves with sheathing white bases. 



3. PHILONOTIS Brid. 



Bry. univ. ii, 15 (1827). 



Plants short and decumbent or tall and erect, the fertile apex with 

 verticillate or fascicled innovations, the rest dichotomous with binate 

 innovations, and shoots placed spirally below the male infl., densely 

 tomentose, the cuticular cells of stem large and vesicular. Leaves 

 uniform or biform, one or both cell-angles with a papilla. Caps, 

 cernuous globose, striate ; cilia of endostome distinct binate. Growing 

 in bogs or wet places. — Der. (^iXeu to love, vona moisture. 



A genus of some 80 species, in the larger forms possessing a very 

 natural habit, and some so closely allied that considerable difficulty is 

 experienced in drawing up their distinctive characters. Most of them 

 require a permanent supply of moisture, and hence they thrive best in 

 moorland bogs or where trickling springs permeate the surface. 



Clavis to the Species. 



Autoicous. 



Very small, gymnostomous. Wilsoni. 



Short, fasciculate-branched, peristomate. rigida. 



Dioicous. 



Leaves densely imbricated, 



Bracts of male infl. acute, nerved to point. 



Leaves falcato-secund, laxly areolate. calcarea. 



— secund, densely areolate. ccespitosa. 



obtuse, nerve vanishing. 



Upper leaves imbricated, erecto-patent. fontana. 



in spiral rows, appressed. seriata. 



distant, erecto-appressed, decurrent. adiressa. 



Sect. I. PHILONOTULA C. Muell. Plants dwarf, procumbent, 

 fasciculate, and irregularly branched, with erect or secund leaves. Synoicous 

 or autoicous, $ gemmaceous. 



I. PHILONOTIS WILSONI {Br. Sch.) 



Synoicous; minute, fasciculate branched. Leaves ovate-acuminate, 

 nerved to apex. Caps, subpyriform, smooth, gymnostomous. 

 (T. LXXVII, B.) 



