furrowed when dry, seta four-sided at summit, twisted to right when dry; lid convex or mammillate. [Bry. Eur., IV., t. 316. Schp. Syn., 417.]
On the ground and stones. Early summer.
Maresfield, Sussex (Mitten), 1862.
2. Caps. cernuous, perist. double.
a. Branches fastigiate. Monoicous.
368. B. rigida. Bals. & Not. St. ¼-½in.; br. erect or recurved; l. erecto-patent, straight, rigid, lanceolate, finely serrulate, nerve excurrent, cap., large, sub-spherical, furrowed when dry, and cernuous; lid conical pointed; seta erect; inner perist. sometimes imperfect.
Shady banks, mountains. IX. X.
b. Br. fasciculate: dioicous.
- L. plicate and sheathing at base.
369. B. arcuata. Brid. St. 1-4in., with reddish brown radicles; l. ovate-lanceolate from a broad erect sheathing base, scabrous, serrulate, spreading; caps. sub-globose, almost pendulous, on an arcuate seta, furrowed when dry.
Waterfalls and wet rocks. IX. X.
- * L. not sheathing or plicate. (Philonotis.)
370. B. (Philonotis) FONTANA. Brid. Stem 1-6in., with reddish black radicles; l. ovate-acuminate, short and appressed or lanceolate secund, or spreading and longer (generally plicate at base), nerve almost excurrent; perig. l. obtuse, nerveless; caps. sub-globose large, furrowed when dry.
Springs and wet places. VI.
