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II. Philonotllla. Male flowers gemmiform with erect leaves. 

 Monoecious or dioecious. Leaves small narrow, nearly erect 

 when moist, not reflexed, faintly mamillose without double 

 mamillse, often nearly appressed when dry. Fruiting stem very 

 short. 



I. Eu-Philonotis. 



1. Homomorphfe. 



A. Leaves not recurved at borders. 



l.Ph.marchica Willdenow. — Leskia Willd.; Philonotis Brid. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate acute not sharply serrate, more or 

 less distant; shoot-leaves somewhat shorter; costa short-excurrent. 

 Perigonial leaves erect-patent ovate-lanceolate nearly subulate- 

 acuminate; costa distinct often excurrent. Inner perichetial 

 leaves short, not or scarcely reaching above vaginula. Stem 

 somewhat long. — Wet places in lower districts. Eur. not 

 common. Switzerl.l France: Husnot. Germany: Warnstorf. Amer. r. 

 Can.: Macoun. U. S.: Roell. 

 * Fh.laxa Limpricht. 



» Leaves very distant; costa not excurrent. — Eur. r. Swit- 

 zerl. and Germany*; Limpricht. 

 2.Ph.MuehIenbergii Bridel. 



Differs from the last: Leaves smaller, more distant; costa 

 long-excurrent; stem thinner, subcapillary; capsule smaller. — 

 Springs in sandy rocks r. Amer. Can.: Macoun. U. S.: Eoell; 

 Sullivant, com. C. Mueller. 

 S.Ph.Macounii Lesquereux et James. 



Leaves ovate-oblong or broadly ovate-lanceolate, long-subulate, 

 sharply serrate princ. above, crowded, smaller and shorter than 

 in Ph. marchica; costa long-excurrent. Perigonial leaves horizon- 

 tally spreading, ovate-lanceolate acute not subulate; costa not 

 well-defined, obsolete not excurrent. Inner perichetial leaves 

 leaching far above vaginula with long-excurrent costa. Stem 

 somewhat short. — Amer. r. Can. Pacif. distr.: J. Macoun. 



B. Leaves (at least some ones) recurved, ovate-lanceolate. 

 Capsules not seen. Stem us. subcapillary. 



a. Leaves nearly smooth and not sharply serrate; costa 

 short-excurrent. 

 4.Ph.ArnelUi Husnot m. G. — »Ph. parvulaLindb.»: Philibert; 



Leaves distant long-subulate short-decurrent. Perigonial leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate subulate horizontally patent; costa excurrent. 

 — Wet rocks r. Eur. Sweden: _ Zetterstedt. Amer. Greenl.: 

 Wenck, com. Roell. 



