Bartramiace^.J 212 [PhUonoHs. 



lower angle. Seta slender purple. Caps, inclined, ovato-globose, 

 pachydermous, when dry curved and sulcate ; lid small conic, teeth of 

 peristome purple, finely papillose, the upper third with hemispherical 

 thickenings between the lamellae. Male infl. broadly discoid, inner 

 bracts from an erect yellow base, shortly ovato-lanceolate, obtuse 

 serrate, the nerve broad thin, vanishing. 



Hab. — About springs and gravelly moorland bogs. Fr. 6 — 7. 

 Var. p. falcate Brid. 



Branches hooked at apex. Leaves falcato-secund lanceolate-subulate, 

 nerve stronger, rufescent, perigonial bracts acute with excurrent nerve. 



Syn. — P.fontana \ax.falcata Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 21. Schimper, Wilson, C. Muell., &c. 



Hab.— Twll du {Hunt 1865) ! ! near Killin {Binstead 1885) ! ! 



Var. y. capillaris Lindb. 



Tufts small, lax., the stems extremely slender ^ in. high. Leaves distant, 

 uniform, lanceolate-subulate, not plicate, the margin plane. 



Syn. — Philonotis capillaris Lindb. in Hedwioia 1867, p. 40 et in Hartm. Skand. fl. 10 ed. ii, 46 

 (1871). 



Hab. — About springs and in the clefts of rocks. 



Ben Arthur by Loch Long (Stirtoti 1866) ! Alderley. Cheshire (Hunt 1863) ! ! ShanUin, 

 Isle of Wight (Davies 1865) ! ! Camedd Dafyd, Caernarvon (Rev. A. Ley 1887) ! ! 



Var. S. compacte Schimp. 



In compact swollen tufts, densely tomentose ; stems slender. Leaves 

 uniform, imbricated, shortly ovato-lanc, nerve reaching apex or excurrent, 

 margin obsoletely serrulate. 



Syn. — Phil, fontana var. compacta Schimp. Synops. 2 ed. 520. Hobk. Syn. 2 ed. 151. 

 Philonotis firma Fergus. MS. 



Hab. — Clova {Fergtisson). Ben-mac-Dhui {Whitehead 1876) ! ! 



This most Protean moss is the centre of a small group of closely allied 

 species which are difficult to discriminate and as an aid in this direction an 

 additional character of some importance has been found in the form of the 

 bracts in the male inflorescence. P. pumila has been established as a species 

 by several authors, but apparently only for dwarf forms of P. fontana. 



5. PHILONOTIS SERIATA Mitt. 



Dioicous ; resembling P. fontana, in rather lax tufts. Leaves of 

 male innov. ovate, rather obtuse, the rest longer, acute, arranged in 



