Neckerace^] 214 [Fonttnalis: 



Dioicous ; habit of ^. squamosa but more slender, dark green, brownish 

 at base, not glossy. Stem 8 — 16 in. long, very slender, naked at base,, 

 with numerous incumbent acuminate branches. Leaves laxly imbricated, 

 decurrent, not auricled, lanceolate, gradually acute pointed, involute at 

 margin, entire or with 2 — 3 teeth at apex ; cells at angles lax, long 

 hexagono-rectangular, the rest very narrow and long. Perichsetial bracts 

 appressed overtopping the capsule, acute, cells narrow, orange at base ; 

 capsule immersed, longish ovate, castaneous, lid short, conic obtuse orange, 

 teeth of peristome connivent, orange fenestrate in the middle, endostome 

 yellowish, smooth, the cross-bars slender imperfect in the middle. 



Hab. — Near Princeton, Dartmoor, sterile (Dixon 1894) ! ! 



In the absence of fruit it is scarcely possible to separate this from F. squamosa. 

 The leaves however are narrower and involute at margin, the upper perichsetial' 

 bracts apiculate and reaching beyond the mouth of capsule. The endostome is so 

 thin and fragile, that I have failed to see a perfect example, and have copied fig. 8 

 from Husnofs plate. Mr. Dixon sent me a specimen, and I quite agree with him. 

 that it looks identical with F. squamosa, but it is sterile. 



6. FONTINALIS DIXONI Cardot. 



Lurid green, glossy, subpinnate ; branches flexuose, cuspidate. Leaves- 

 erecto-patent, ovato-lanceolate ; cells at angles large and inflated, forming 

 auricles. (T. CXXII, C.) 



Syn. — Fontinalis Dixoni Cardot Rev. bryol. l8g6, p. 70. Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 356 (1896).. 

 LiHPB. Laubm. iii, 802 (1903). 



Plants lurid green or dark brown, glossy. Stems 3 — 6 in. long, not 

 naked at base, flexuose, irregularly branched or subpinnate above, the 

 branches flexuose, curved, cuspidate. Leaves firm, erecto-patent, imbri- 

 cated at apex of branches, concave, ovato-lanceolate, gradually narrowed 

 into an entire acute or bluntish point ; branch-leaves often much smaller 

 but similar to the cauline. Cells at basal angles large inflated, ovate- 

 oblong or subhexagonal, pellucid yellowish or fuscous, forming very distinct 

 auricles, the rest very longly narrow linear, flexuose, the walls thickish, the 

 primordial utricle indistinct. The rest unknown. 



Hab. — River Colwyn, Beddgelert, N. Wales {Dixon 1888). A pretty shining moss,, 

 the green colour more or less mixed with rufous. 



7. FONTINALIS SEBLA.TA Lindb. 



Dioicous ; very slender, dingy green below, yellowish-green above^ 

 Leaves decurrent, narrowly lanceolate, gradually acuminate ; cells linear,, 

 rectangular at angles, orange and not forming auricles. (T. CXXIII, E.) 



