BARTRAMIACEiE.J 213 [PhUoUoHs. 



spiral rows, appressed and with two deep plaits on each side at base. 

 (T. LX-XVIII, A.) 



Syn. — Bryum lycopodiforme Schleich. Cat. pi. Helv. 2 ed. p. 28 (1807), name only. 



Bartramia fontana var. falcata Hook, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix, 317, t, 27, f. 4 (1808). 



Philonotis seriaia Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. i, Suppl. 63 (1859). Hunt in Mem. Lit. Phil 

 Soc. Manch. v, 103 (1872). Hobk. Synops. 130 (1873). Limpr. in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. 

 Laubm. ii, 571 (1893). 



Dioicous ; in stiffish yellow-green tufts with rufous tomentum, 

 readily falling asunder, and with the habit of P. fontana. Leaves in 

 spiral rows, imbricated when dry, erect or subfalcate, biform, those of 

 the male innov. ovate, bluntish, the nerve vanishing, the rest deltoid- 

 ovate, acutely pointed, the nerve thick, reaching apex or vanishing, all 

 somewhat decurrent, concave, with two deep plaits at base on each 

 side, margin revolute in lower third, bluntly toothed by single or 

 double mamillse ; nerve very strong, rough at back, reaching to apex ; 

 cells above small and rectangular, with a mamilla at the lower and often 

 also at the upper end, below laxer oval and longish with a central 

 mamilla on both sides. Perich. bracts with the nerve excurrent. Caps, 

 on a long straight seta, cernuous, striate and furrowed, lid conic 

 obtuse, peristome rufous, endostome orange, finely papillose. Male 

 infl. thick, bracts erecto-patent, from a very concave broad base, ovate, 

 obtuse, finely serrate, the nerve vanishing below point. 



Hab. — Bogs in alpine moorlands, rare. Fr. 7. 



Ben-na-Bourd (Gardiner 1844). Glen Prosen hill and about springs at head of Clova 

 (FergtissoH 1868) ! ! 



A very beautiful moss, the spirally imbricated arrangement of the leaves 

 giving the branches an amentiform appearance. It is found in the Alps, 

 Tyrol, Styria, Norway and Lapland, and has probably been overlooked as a 

 form of P- fontana. 



6. PHILONOTIS CALCAREA Schimp. 



Dioicous ; tall glaucous-green. Leaves crowded secund, ovato-lanc, 

 gradually tapering upward, cancave, margins plane. Perigonial bracts 

 acuminate, acute, nerved to apex. (T. LXXVIII, C.) 



Syn. — Bartramia calcarea Br. Sch. Bry. eur. Fasc. 12, p. ig, t. 10 (1842). C. Muell. 

 Synops. i, 475 (1849). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 193 (1848). WiLS. Bry. brit. 280, 

 t. 52 (1855). Berk. Handb. br. m. 172, t. 16 (1863). Hobk. Syn. 131 (1873). 



Philonotis calcarea Schimp. Coroll. 86 (1856), Synops. 427 (i860), 2 ed. 520. Milde Bry. 

 siles. 241 {i86g). De Not. Epilogo 256 {1869). Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 333 

 (1882), BouL. Muse, de Fr. I, 214 (1884). HusN. Muse. gall. 270, t. 75 (i8go). Limpr. 

 in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 564 (1893). 



