454 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 
Inflorescence dioicons. 
Stems from 1 to 6 inches long, densely 
tufted ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, rather 
obtuse, apiculate, not bordered ; nerve 
ceasing below the apex, . . . 8. osmundoides. 
Stems elongated ; leaves ligulate, entire or 
serrulate at the apex ; lid of capsule ros- 
trate, 9. P. POLTPHTLLUS. 
1. F. adiantoides (Hedw.)- St. Crypt., p. 3, tab. 26. Bryol. 
Europ., vol. I. Monogr., p. 10. tab. 105. Schimp., Synops. 
Muscor., p. 108. Bryol. Brit., p. 307, tab. 16. Eabenhor., 
Bryothec. Europ., ISTo. 257. Dicranum adiantoides, Turner, 
Muse. Hib., p. 57. Hook, and Tayl., Muscol. Brit., Ed. 2, 
p. 90. 
Hab. Wet rocks, banks, and pastures. Yery common. 
2. F. decipiens (De J^'otr., Briol. Ital., p. 479. F. rupestris, Wils., 
MS. Eabenhor., Bryothec. Europ., No. 825. 
Hab. Moist rocky banks. At Muckross, Killarney, where it was 
pointed out to me by the late W. "Wilson in 1866 ; Croma- 
gloun, G. E. Hunt. 
3. F. taxifoliiis (Hedw.). Sp. Muse, tab. 39. Bryol. Europ., 
vol. I. Monogr., p. 9, tab. 104. Schimp., Synops. Muscor., 
p. 108. Bryol. Brit., p. 308, tab. 16. Eabenhor., Bryothec. 
Europ., No. 64. Dicranum taxifolium, Swartz, Muse. Suec, 
p. 31. Hook, and Taylor, Muscol. Brit., Ed. 2, p. 91. 
Hab. Moist shady banks, and pasture fields. Erequent. 
4. F. ta)narindifoUus (Tuvner), Muse. Hib., p. 55. Bryol. Brit., 
p. 308, tab. 53. 
Hab. Moist banks and fallow fields. The only Irish habitat re- 
corded for this minute moss is Oullen's-wood, near Dublin, 
where Dr. Whitley Stokes collected it, as mentioned by Tur- 
ner, in his Muscologiae Hibernicse Spicilegium, p. 55 (^1804). 
5. F, exilis (Hedw.). Sp. Muscor., p. 152, tab. 38. Bryol. Brit., 
p. 302, tab. 53. Dicranum bryoides, /3 minus. Turner, Muse. 
Hib., p. 53. 
Hab. Shady banks in woods. Dr. Scott is given as the authority 
for the occurrence of this moss in Ireland by Wilson, in Bryol. 
Brit., but without mention of any special locality. 
