DREPANOPHYLLEI. 157 



On the ground in shady places, on wet rocks, or in pastures 

 or bogs. Bearing fruit in winter. 



Stem 1-2 inches high, slightly branched, rooting at the 

 base of the innovations ; leaves flat, equitant, oblong, pointed 

 above and toothed, more minutely toothed below, rounded 

 behind at the base ; nerve strong, reaching to the tip ; dorsal 

 wing, an expansion of the nerve, broad ; leaf-cells minute, 

 seriate ; sporangium produced near the tip of the branches ; 

 fruitstalk ^-1 inch long ; lid rostrate ; veil cuculliform ; teeth 

 sometimes adhering at the tips ; golden-yellow, with red bars. 



Distinguished at once from the next by the different po- 

 sition of the fruit, and by the leaves being more curled 

 when dry. 



2. I". taxifolius, Hedw. ; monoicous, branched in a fasci- 

 culate manner from the base; leaves crowded, lanceolate, 

 mucronate; margin finely crenulate; fruitstalks radical, 

 rather long; sporangium oblong, cernuous; lid rostrate. — 

 Hook. §■ Wils. t. xvi. ; Eng. Bot. t. 426. ; (Plate 14, fig. 3) ; 

 Moug. §• Nest. n. 217. 



On clayey banks in woods, etc. Bearing fruit in autumn. 



Shorter than the last, and more delicate. Branches springing 

 up from the base in fascicles, .bright- green ; leaves lanceolate, 

 rounded at the base on either side, mucronate, but little 

 crisped when dry, rather crenulate than toothed, ovato-lan- 

 ceolate; nerve reaching to the tip; fruitstalks \ an inch or 

 more long, flexuous ; sporangium oblong; lid rostrate. 



3. F. tamarlndifolius, Donn; monoicous; stems fascicu- 

 late; leaves short, distant, spreading, narrowly elliptic, sub- 

 falciform, apiculate, bordered, entire; crisped or undulated 

 when dry; fruit from the base of the barren shoots; spo- 

 rangium ovate, curved, cernuous; lid conical, acuminate; 

 male flower at the base of the fertile stem. — Hook. § Wils. 

 t. liii. 



