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Diagnosis of Species > 
a Inflorescence dioicous, branches fasciculate. {Philonotis, Brid. 
pars). 
Capsule thick, ohovate, curved, striated when 
dry ; perigonial leaves broad at base, 
concave, obtuse and nerveless, . . 1. B. tontana. 
Capsule with short neck, nearly umbilicate ; 
perigional leaves with a thick broad nerve, 
which is more or less excurrent, . . 2. B. calcaeea. 
aa Inflorescence monoicous, branches fastigiate. {Philonotis, Brid. pars.) 
Stem erect, with very short fasciculate 
branches ; leaves upright, dentate, lan- 
ceolate-subulate, cells at base en- 
larged, 3. B. C^SPITOSA. 
Capsule obliquely cernuous, on a rather long 
pedicel. Male flowers gemmaceous, ap- 
proximate to female flowers, . . 4. B. eigida. 
h Inflorescence synoicous, branches not fasciculate. 
Capsule globose, oblique, elevated on a 
rather long pedicel, lid plano-convex, . 5. B. Oedeei. 
Capsule on an elongated pedicel, oblique; 
processes of the inner peristome imp'er- 
fect, , 6. B. ithyphylla. 
Ih Inflorescence monoicous. 
Capsule on a short pedicel, which is scarcely 
longer than the leaves of stem, . . 7. B. Halleeiana. 
Capsule sub-globose, elevated on a pedicel 
considerably above the leaves of stem, . 8. B. pomieoemis. 
c Inflorescence dioicous, leaves plicate. {Breutelia, Schimp.). 
Capsule on short pedicel spheroid, arcuate. 
Barren flowers, discoid, . . . 9. B. arcuata. 
I. B.fontana (Bridel). Bryol. Univer., 2, p. 20. Bryol. Europ., vol. 
IV. Monogr., p. 18, tab. 324. Bryol. Brit., p. 279, tab. 23. 
Muscol., Brit., p. 146. Philonotis fontana, De JS'otr., Briol. 
Ital., p. 256. 
