NECKERACEyE.] 215 \Antitrichia, 



Syn. — Fontinalis seriata Lindb. in Act. Soc. pro Fauna et Flora fenn. 1881. Bot. Notis. l88z, 

 p. 26. Rev. bryol. i88z, p. 85. Cardot Monogr. 107 (1892). Limpr. Laubm. ii. 669- 

 (1894). Dix. James. Stud. Handb. 357 (1896). 



Fontinalis dalecarlica vat. seriata Kindb. Laubra. Schwed. & Norw. 51 (1883). 



Dioicous ; very slender, dingy green below, bright green and glossy at 

 apex. Stems 4—6 in. long, very slender, branches few, parallel with stem. 

 Leaves of equal size, trifarious, when dry laxly appressed, when moist 

 erecto-patent, decurrent but not auricled at base, narrowly lanceolate, 

 gradually acuminate, not keeled, slightly concave with flat margins, not 

 toothed at apex. Cells linear, not serpentine, a few marginal rows 

 narrower, those of base thick-walled, orange, at angles wider, about 12 in 

 three rows, oval and rectangular, yellowish. 



Hab. — In the Wye, Winforton, Herefordshire {Binstead 1895) ! ! 



The nearest ally of this moss is F. hypnoides Hartm., from which it differs by 

 the narrow erect leaves and firmer tissue. 



Sect. 3. CRYPH^E^. Fertile branches with leaves equal on all sides, obscure 

 or rather glossy, the cells dense, small, oval or rounded. 



7. ANTITRICHIA Brid. 



Mantissa 136 (1819). 



Robust laxly tufted mosses, growing on trees and rocks. Main stem 

 creeping filiform, the secondary irregularly pinnate. Leaves in many 

 rows, ovate or lanceolate, nerve strong, cells incrassate in the middle in 

 straight rows, narrow linear-rhombic, at base near the margin small, in 

 oblique rows, elHptic, oval or hexagono-rotundate. Capsule elevated, 

 regular, longish oval ; calyptra cucullate, teeth lanceolate, 16 ; endostome 

 of 16 filiform processes, as long as teeth and alternating with them. — Der. 

 avTi opposite, dpii^ cilia — erroneous, as they alternate. 



A small genus with 5 species, but a very natural one. The name contradicts 

 nature, as the processes occupy their usual position. 



ANTITRICHIA CITBTIPENDULA {Hed.) Brid 



Dioicous ; in lax robust dull green tufts. Stems vaguely branched, 

 rigid ; leaves imbricated, rather squarrose, ovate-acuminate, serrulate 

 towards apex, irregularly sulcate ; nerve vanishing below apex, with i or 2 

 shorter ones on each side ; cells oblong, obliquely serrate. (T. CXXIV, A.) 



Syn. — Hypnum arboreum repens, capitulis rejlexis, brevibus pediculis insidentibus Dill. Cat. Giss. 

 220 (1718), et in Ray Synops. 3 ed. p. 89 (1724). 



Hypnum deniatum curtipendulum, viiiculis rigidis Dill. Hist. muse. 333, t. 43, f. 69 (1741) 

 et Herb. 



