CINCLIDOTUS FONTINALOIDES. FONTINALIS-
LIKE CINCLIDOTUS.
(JICCLIDOTUS fontinaloides. Pal. de Beauvais Prodr. d'JEtheog. p . 28. et 52.
u. TRICHOSTOMUM fontinaloides. Hcdw. Stirp. ml. 3. p. 36. t. 14. Turn. Muse. Bib. p. 41.
Huko. Sp. Muse. p . 114. Roth Germ. ml. 3. p. 195. Sibth. Ox. p. 283. Brid.
Muse. Recent, vol. 2. p. 133. Suppl. ml. I. p. 243. Lamarc/c FI. F r. ed. 3. p. 469-
Fl. Gall. Syn. p. 98. Swartz Muse. Suec. p. 30. Hoffm. Germ. vol. 2. p .7 9 . Mohr
■ Crypt. Germ.p. 121. et p. X L . t. 7 . / . 6. (quoad Peristomium).
P TRICHOSTOMUM fontinaloides. Sm. Fl. Brit. p. 1248.
FONTINALIS alpina. Dicks. PI. Crypt, fasc. 2. p. 2. t. 4 .ƒ . l. Griiel. Syst. Nat. vol. 2. p. 1324.
HYPNUM nigricans. Villars Delph. vol. 3. p . 904.
IIYPNUM fontinaloides. Lamarck Diet. vol. 3. p. ,164.
HYPNUM antipyreticum v. minus surculis trifariis apice capituliferis, operculo capitulorum cuspidato.
. Nec/c. Meth. Musc.p. 192.
HYPNUM foliis ovatis lanceolatis, carinatis, apicibus capsuliferis. Hall. Hclv. n. 1795.
MUSCUS squamosqs, foliis, acutissimis in aquis nascehs. Vaill. Par. p. 140. t. 3. f . 5.
fi. incrassatus ; foliis ovatis, concavis, obtusis.
yS. TRICHOSTOMUM fontinaloides. Turn. Muse. Hib. Spic. p. 41.
a. TRICHOSTOMUM fontinaloides. Sm.Fl. B r it.p . 1248.
FONTINALIS minor. Iiedw. Fund. Muse. vol. 2. p. 96. Linn. Sp. P l.p . 1571. Syst. Nat. vol. 2.
p. 1324. Web. Sp. Fl. Goet. p. 35. Leers Fl. Herb. n. 826. Wigg. Prim. Fl.
Hols. p. 75. Roth Germ. vol. \. p. 478. Engl. Bot. t. 557. Gunn. Fl. Norv. n. 969.
Retz. Prodr. Fl. Scand. n. 1187. Muller Fl. Fred. p. 196. Buds. Angl. p. 398.
Light/. Scot. vol. 2. p. 695. Dicks. Hort. Sicc. fasc. p. 1. All. Ped. vol. Q.p 309.
Crantz Inst. p. 59■ Lamarck D iet. vol. 2 . p. 518. With. Bot. Arr. ed. 3. vol. 3.
p. 788. ed. 5. vol. 3. p . 96?.
FONTINALIS minor foliis triangularibus, minus complicatis, capsulis in summis capitulis sessilibus.
Raii Syn. p .7 9 .
FONTINALIS triangularis minor, carinata, e cymis capsulifera. Dill. Musc.p. 257. t. 33. f . 2.
Class a nd Order. CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI.
, ^ '[N atural Ord er. CALYPTRATiE, Mohr.']
Gen. Ciiar. Calyptra hinc longitudinaliter fissa. Peristomium simplex, laciniatum ; laciniis capillaribus,
tortis, basi hie illic anastomosantibus.
Radix oinnino basilaris, nunquam folionim ad alas orta^
e tomento constans denso, ferrugineo, brevi.
Caules ex eadem basi plurimi, laxi, debiles, fluitantes,
palmares vel spithamaei, aut etiam quod rarius
aqcidit, dodrahtales, leniter flexuosi, ramis vage
sparsis, nee minus situ et longitudine quam numéro
ludentibus, ubique obsiti, inferne nigri et
• hie non raro denudati, supra virides.
Folia intense viridia, undique laxe imbricata, semi-
amplexicaulia, interdum subsecunda, elliptico-
• lanceolata, acuminata, marginata, integerrima,
nervo valido percursa et subcarinata, m'adore
patentia, flexuosa, siccitate Inrida, appressa, et
spiraliter torta; inferiora aqua sæpius ita corrosa,
ut nervus tantummodo restât et setacea videan-
tur, quod in reliquis etiam foliis interdum acci-
dit, unde planta faciem longe alienam induit.
Flores Masguli, ut Hedwigii verbis utar, alares, raro
solitarii, siepius gemclli quadrimellive, foliis horizon
talibus cincti sex ovato-acuminatis, concavis,
promus enervibus ; hos ego nunquam vidi.
Fructificatio Fceminea lateralis, sed rarnorum
propriorum perbrevium ad apices sita, foliis im-
mersa perichietialibus, lanceolatis, immargiuatis,
uninervibus, quçe non modo
Setas exuperant breves, superne incrassatas, fuscas,
verum e’.iam
Capsulas his impositas oblongas, loeves, dilute viridi-
fuscas, deinum omnino fuscas.
Oper
Caly
GULUM conico-acuminatum, croceum.
PTH a pyramidata, lutescens, hinc longitudinaliter
nssa, tarnen recte secedens, basi in plurimas lacunes
perbreves, latas, obtusas, enoriniter fissa.
Peristomium dilute sanguineum, rigidum, basi mem-
brana integra, cui denies insident plurimi per-
longi eapillares, leniter torti, infra vage anastomosantes,
aut etiam reticulatim quasi transversis
obliquisve trabeculis connexi/ut nunc duo, nunc
tres quatuorve mutuo inter se nexu juncti repe-
riantur : tales modo ipse vidi, speciminibus plu-
rnnis caute sub microscopio observatis. Hed-
wigius autem, quern sequitur etiam Mohrius, pe-
nstomium quodammodo discrepans describunt
tlepmguntque,nempeedentibus constans sedecim
basi perforatis, simplicibus, bi- tri- quadrifidis in
crura longe, madore exporrecta, siccitate torta.
Root altogether arising from the base of the'stems,
never from within the leaves, consisting of dense,
• ferruginous, short, downy fibres.
Stems many from the same base, lax, weak, fluitant,
from six to nine inches, sometimes reaching even
to a foot in length, slightly flexuose, on every
side beset with branches, which are distantly disposed,
and which vary no less in situation and
length than in their number, below black, and
often deprived of leaves, above green.
Leaves intensely green, on all sides loosely imbricated,
semi-amplexicaul, sometimes subsecund, ellipti-
co-lanceolate, acuminate, marginate, entire, furnished'throughout
the whole length with a strong
nerve and somewhat carinate, when moist patent,
flexuose, when dry lurid, appressed and spirally
twisted, the inferior ones often so decayed by the
water, that the nerve alone remains and they appear
like bristles, a circumstance which likewise
happens with the rest of the leaves, and thence
' the plant has a very peculiar appearance.
Male Flowers, according to Hedwig, axillary, rarely
solitary, often in pairs and sometimes in fours,
suiTounded'by six horizontal, ovato-acuminate,
concave, altogether nerveless leaves: but these
I have never seen.
Female F ructification lateral, but situated at the
apices of very short proper branches, immersed
in the lanceolate, immarginate, one-nerved pe-
richsetial leaves: these not only exceed in length
the
Fru it-Stalks, which are short, incrassated upward,
and of a brown colour, but even the
Capsules that terminate these, and that are oblong,
smooth, pale greenish-brown, at length entirely
brown. •' '
O perculum conico-acuminate, croceous.
Calyptra of a pyramidal figure, yellow, on one side
cleft longitudinally, yet not falling off obliquely;
at the base cut irregularly into many very short,
wide, obtuse lacinite.
P eristome red, rigid at the base, consisting of an entire
membrane, whence arise many very long,
capillary slightly twisted teeth, which below anastomose
in various ways, or are even connected
in a reticulated manner, as it were with transverse
or oblique bars, so that two, sometimes three are
found joined by a network. Such a kind of structure
I have myself always seen, after having
carefully examined many specimens under a microscope.
Hedwig, however, and, following him,
Mohr too, have described and figured a peristomium
differing in some respects, consisting, as
they say, of sixteen teeth, perforated at the base,
simple and bi-tri-quadrifid, having long divisions,
which when moist are straight, and when dry
twisted.