NECKERACEiE.] 2IO \FontincUis. 



I, FONTDfALIS ANTIPYRETICA Z. 



Dioicous ; robust, dull green. Stems long, robust, triquetrous-leaved, 

 the leaves decurrent, ovate-lanceolate, sharply keeled, reflexed on one side 

 at margin. Capsule immersed, perich. bracts large rounded. (T. CXXII, B.) 



Syn. — Muscus aquaticus ierrestri milgari similis, sed major Ray Synops. 17 n. 7 (1690). 



Fontinalis triangularis tnajor complicata, e foKorum a/is capsuU/era Put.. Hist. muse. 254, 

 t- 33> t I (1741) et Herb. 



Fontinalis anHpyntica L. Sp. plant. 1107 (1753). HuDS. Fl. Angl. 398 (1762). Weiss 

 Crypt. Goett. 261 (1770). Wither. BoL arrang. ii, 691 (1776). Ljghtf. Fl. Scot, ii, 

 694 (1777). Neck. Del. gallo-belg. ii, 441 (1778). Hedw. Fund. I, t. 5, f. 27 et II, 97, 

 t I, f. S, et L 4, f. 14 — IS et t. 9, f. 53 — 55 (1782), Sp. muse 298 (1801). Relhan FL 

 cant. 395 (1785). Roth Tent. fl. germ, i, 478 (1788). Sibth. Fl. oxon. 293 (1794). 

 HoFFM. Deuts. fl. ii, 79 (179S). Swartz Muse. suec. 72 (1799). Brid. Muse rec. Ill, 

 157 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 107 C1817), Mant. 186 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 655 (1827). 

 Smith Fl. Brit. 1336 (1804), Biig. Bot. t. 359. Turn. Husc hib. 199 (1804). P. Beauv. 

 Prodr. 57 (1805). Schultz Fl. Starg. 356 (1806). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 376 (1807). 

 WAHI.EN. Fl. Lapp. 382 (1812), FLC^at. 353 (1814). Roehl. Deutsch. fl.iii, 121 (1813). 

 Schwaeg. Supp. I, P. II, 507 (1816). Hook. Tayl. Muse. Brit. 82 (1818), Fl. Scot. P. 2, 

 138(1821). FuNCK Moost. 67, t. 53 (1821). Gray Nat. arrang. i, 749 (1821). Hueben. 

 Muse. Germ. 700 (1833). De Not. SylL i (1838), Epilogo 60 (1869). Br. Sch. Bry. Eur. 

 fasc. 16, p. 4, t. 2 (1842). Rabenh. D. kr. fl. II, S. 3, 245 (1848). Wits. Bry. Brit 423 

 (1855). ScHiMP. Synops, 456 (i860), 2 ed. 552. Berk. Handb. 62. t. 3 (1863). Milde 

 Bry. Siles. 275 (1869). Hobk. Synops. 185 (1873). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 268 

 (1884). Boulay Muse. Fr. 189 (1884). HnsN. Muse. Gall. 285, t. 80 (1892). Limpr. 

 in Rabenh. D. kr. fl. Laubm. ii, 652, fig. 325 (1894). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 353 (1S96). 

 Cardot Monogr. 48 (1902). 



Hypnum antipyreticum Neck. Meth. muse. 191 (1771). 



Fontinalis trifaria Voir Muse. Herbip. 125 (1812). 



Pilotrichum antipyreticum C. Muell. Synops. ii, 148 (1851). 



Dioicous ; not glossy, in yellowish or olivaceous green floating tufts. 

 Stems 10 — 20 in. long, repeatedly divided, irregularly fasciculate-branched, 

 ■obtuse at points, naked at base, triquetrous-leaved. Leaves decurrent, 

 broadly ovato-lanceolate, keeled and folded together, the line of keel curved, 

 margin reflexed at base on one side, entire; cells elongated rhomboido- 

 hexagonal, larger and rectangular at basal angles, all incrassate. Peri- 

 chsetial bracts large, broad and roundish, sheathing the capsule to the lid. 

 Capsule ovate olive-green or brown, contracted below mouth when dry ; 

 lid conic, teeth of peristome, when dry, loosely curled inward, purple, 

 papillose, endostome blood-red, papillose, the transverse bars with 2 — 3 

 projecting appendages. 



Hab. — Stones in rivulets and on wood by river banks. Fr. 6 — 7. 



Var. p. gigamtea Sulliv. 



Plants very stout, not glossy, brownish-green or rufescent on one side, with 

 few short branches. Leaves crowded, indistinctly trifarious, broad, ovate, obtuse, 

 the margin slightly recurved at base on both sides, not auricled. 



