292 BARTRAMIACE^E. 



faintly papillose ; nerve vanishing at apex, rarely slightly 

 excurrent. Seta arcuate, often two or three from one peri- 

 chaetium, about 3 lines in length ; capsule cernuous or pendulous, 

 small, globose, very slightly tapering to the seta, not striate, 

 slightly rugose when dry ; lid convex ; peristome none. 

 Synoicous. 



Hab. On the ground on mountains, very rare. Fr. autumn. 



This very beautiful little moss has only been found in four localities, two in 

 Ireland and one each in Scotland and Wales, and out of Britain in a single station in 

 Fernando Po ; much of its beauty arises from a delicate pink tinge to the capsule, 

 which is lost in herbarium specimens. In vegetative characters it is almost an exact 

 miniature of P. cakarea. 



2. Philonotis rigida Brid. (Tab. XL. I.). 



In small dense tufts, brownish green. Stems short, with 

 longer, rigid, stellate branches, fragile. Leaves more or less 

 erect or erecto-patent, straight and appressed when dry, crowded, 

 small, straight, rigid, narrow, lanceolate-subulate; margin 

 plane, or slightly reflexed, sharply denticulate, nerve strong, 

 prominent at back, excurrent in a short, fine cuspidate point ; 

 cells small, narrowly rectangular, slightly papillose, rather wider 

 at base. Seta long for the size of the plant (§-£ inch), flexuose; 

 capsule large, globose, striate ; lid convex, apiculate. Autoicous ; 

 male flower near the fertile, gemmiform. 



Hab. Sandy banks and rocks, in warm or sheltered situations, rare. Fr. early 

 summer. 



A southern species, chiefly found on the southern coasts of England and Ireland, 

 but also recorded from a few localities as far north as the Isle of Man. The fruit is 

 large for the plant, and when present there is no difficulty in recognising it ; and even 

 when barren the rigidity of the whole plant, the very narrow, straight leaves, hardly 

 altered in drying, and the small size of all the parts, easily distinguish it from the 

 species of the succeeding Section ; it is a larger plant than the preceding, with quite 

 different fruit. 



B. EU-PHILONOTIS. 



Usually robust and erect ; stems usually straight and regularly 

 branched. Dioicous. Male flower discoid, terminal. 



[The European plants comprised under this Section are closely 

 allied to one another, several of them are extremely variable, and 

 intermediate forms in many cases exist. The difficulty of determin- 

 ing their true position is also enhanced by the frequent sterility 



