Bartramiace^.] 211 [Philonotis. 



4. PHILONOTIS FONTANA (L.) Brid. 



Dioicous ; in dense glaucescent or yellowish green tufts. Leaves 

 biform, those of male shoot appressed, ovate acute, the rest erecto- 

 patent or subsecund, ovato-lanc, acute, 2 — 3 plicate at base, nerve 

 excurrent, denticulate with pairs of mamillae. Bracts of male infl. 

 broad obtuse, the nerve vanishing, (T. LXXVIII, B.) 



Syn. — Muscus palustris, Adianto aureo affinis, scapis tenuibus,foUoUs brevibus Ray Hist, i, 124, 

 n. 6 (1686) ; Synops. 19, a. 4 (i6go). 



Muscus palustris cinereo-viridis, scapis longis tenuibus, foliolis brevissimis Ray Synops. 

 2 ed. 32, n. 19 (1696). 



Muscus stellaris ramosus palustris, pediculo aureo erecto, capitulo magna sphcerico Ray 

 Op. c. 33, n. 28. 



Hypnum palustre erectum trichodes, ramulis teretibus elegantibus majus Dill. Cat. Giss. 

 220 (1718). 



Bryum palustre, scapis teretibus stellatis, capsulis magnis subroiundis Dill. Hist. muse. 

 340, t. 44, f. 2 (1741) et Herbar. 



Mnium fontanum L. Sp. plant, mo (1753). Weiss Crypt, goett. 145 (1770). Wither. 

 Bot. arr. ii, 664 (1776). Liqhtf. F1. scot, ii, 708 (1777). Web. Spic. fl. goett. 121 

 (1778). Hedw. Fund. II, 94 (1782), Sp. muse. 195 (1801). Relh. Fl. cant. 398 (1785). 

 Roth Fl. germ, i, 474 (1788). Hoffm. Deutsch. fl. ii, 54 (1795). Abbot Fl. bedf. 232 

 (1798). Hull Br. fl. P. 2, 249 (1799). Brid. Muse. rec. H, P. Ill, 78 (1803). 

 Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 352 {1812), Fl. carp. 350 (1814). 



Bryum fontanum Huds. Fl. angl. 404 (1762). Schreb. Sp. fl. lips. 75 {1771). Neck. 

 Math. muse. 209 (1771). Vill. PI. Dauph. iii, 890 (1786). Sibth. Fl. oxon. 289 (1794)1 

 Eng. Bot. t. 390. SwARTz Muse. suec. 48 (1799). 



Hypnum fontanum Schrank Baiers. fl, ii, 472 (1789). 



Bartramia fontana Swartz in Schrad. Bot. Journ. ii, 183, t. 3 B.A. (1800). Smith Fl. 

 brit. 1342 {1804). Turn. Muse. hib. 82 (1804). P. Beauv. Prodr. 43 (1805). Web. 

 MoHR Bot. Taseh. 278 (1807). Voit Muse. herb. 82 (1812). Roehl. Deutsch. fl. iii, 

 69 (18x3). Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 61' (1816). Hook. Tayl. Muse. brit. 87, t. 23 

 (i8i8). Brid. Sp. muse. Ill, 8g (1817), Mant. 116 (1819). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 

 751(1821). Hook. Fl. scot. P. 2, 140 (1821). Mack. Fl. hib. P. 2, 34 (1833). De Not. 

 Syllab. loi (1838). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. Fasc. 12, 18, t. g (1842). Rabenh. D. kr. 

 fl. ii, s. 3, 192 (1848). C. MuELL. Synops. i, 474 (1849). WiLS. Bryol. brit. 27g, t. 23 

 (1855). Berk. Handb. br. m. 172 (1863). Hobk. Synops. 129 (1873). 



Philonotis fontancC. Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 18 (1827). Hueben. Muse. germ. 500 (1833). 

 ScHiMP. CoroU. 86 (1856), Synops. 426 (i860), 2 ed. 519. Milde Bry. siles. 240 (1869). 

 De Not. Epilogo 256 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 2 ed. 150 (1884). Juratz. Laubm. 

 oester.-ung. 332 (1882). Boulay Muse, de Fr. I, 215 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. 

 N. Amer. 209 (1884). Husn. Muse. gall. 269, t. 74 (1890). Limpr. in Rabenh. 

 D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 566 (1893). 



Didymodon mollis Schimp. Syn. 2 ed. 167 (1876). 



Dioicous ; in wide dense yellowish or glaucous-green tufts, inter- 

 woven with ferruginous tomentum. Stem tall nearly simple or giving 

 off severallong branches below the infl. Leaves biform, the upper of 

 the male shoot small ovate, appressed, bluntly acuminate, nerved to 

 apex ; those of the main branches erecto-patent or somewhat secund, 

 ovato-lanc, acute or aristate with the excurrent nerve, the base with 

 I — 2 plaits on each side, the margin revolute in the lower half, bluntly 

 toothed by pairs of mamillae ; cells elongated, with a papilla at the 



