408 FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
F. viridulus, var. fontanus, Wils. 
F. fontanus & F. crassipes, Wils. olim. 
On stones in sluices and falling water. October, November. Sluice in 
the Windrush near Witney; side of the Canal near Heyford and Kid- 
lington ; by the Botley Road ; about Sandford Lasher, large and fine. 
F. incurvus, Schwg., W. & M. 
Banks of clay or sand in thickets, groves, and about sides of woods. 
February. Wychwood Forest; Ditchley Park; Tar Wood; Noke; 
Watereaton; near Stokenchurch; also Bagley, Wytham, Cumnor, and 
Buckland, Berks. 
F. bryoides, Hedw. 
Sandy and gravelly soil in woods and hedges, and about decaying 
stumps. February, March. Wychwood Forest; Ditchley Park ; Bletch- 
ingdon; Watereaton; Shotover, etc. Always found rather sparingly 
though less rare than some of the foregoing. F. inconstans Schimp. Synops. 
seems a form of this. 
F. adiantoides, (Hedw.) Br. & Sch. 
F. majus, Mitt. 
Bogs; wet grassy ground. October, November. Wychwood Forest; 
Weston-on-the-Green ; Headington Wick ; Shotover ; Bullingdon. The 
largest of our species, sometimes growing to a length of three or four 
inches. 
F. decipiens, De Not. 
F. rupestris, Wils. F. adiantoides, (Hedw.) Mitt. 
Rocky or stony banks, etc., rare or overlooked as a small form of the 
last, which it much resembles. Holton Stone Pits; near Stokenchurch ; 
barren. Mr. Mitten in the Journ. Linn. Soc. asserts this to be the F. adian- 
toides of Hedwig, instead of the last species which has so long been taken 
as such. /, cristatus, Wils. from India seems to be identical with this. 
P. taxifolius, (Linn.) 
Moist shady banks, woods and groves, especially in a clay soil. Decem- 
ber to February. Wychwood Forest; Ditchley Park; Gravehill Wood 
near Bicester; Shotover; Headington Wick; Stokenchurch; Wytham 
Woods, etc. 
POTTIDE. 
PHASCUM, Linn. 
P. serratum, Schreb. 
Ephemerum, Hampe. 
Shady banks and fallows in light soil, especially sandy. Winter. 
Stockley Wood, near Asthalleigh; between Shotover and Cuddesdon ; 
Nuneham ; borders of Bagley Wood. Allied in structure to Funaria. 
