CINCLIDOTUS FONTINALOIDES. FONTINALIS-
L1KE CINCLIDOTUS.
CICCLIDOTUS fontinaloides. Pal. de Beamois Prodr. d'TEtheog. p . 28. et 52.
«. TRICHOSTOMUM fontinaloides. Hedw. Stirp. ml. 3. p. 36. t. 14. Turn. Muse. Nib. p. 41.
Hedxo. Sp. Muse. p. 114. Roth Germ. ml. 3. p. 195. Sibth. Ox. p. 283. Brid.
Muse. Recent, ml. 2. p. 133. Suppl. ml. 1. p. 243. Lamarck Fl. F r. ed. S. p. 469-
Fl.G a ll.S yn . p. 98. Swartz Muse. Suec. p. 30. Hoffm. Germ. m l. 2. p. 79- Mohr
' Crypt. Germ. p. V lX .e tp . X L . t. 7 -f.Q . (quoad Peristomium).
/3. TRICHOSTOMUM fontinaloides. Sm. FI. B r it.p . 1248.
FO N T IN A L IS alpina. Dicks. PI. Crypt, fu se . 2. p. 2. t. 4. f . 1. Gmel. Syst. N at. m l. 2. p. 1324.
H Y PN UM nigricans. Pillars Delph. ml: 3. p. 904.
H Y PN UM fontinaloides. Lamarck Diet. m l. 3. p. 164.
H Y PN UM antipyreticum v. minus surculis trifariis apice capituliferis, operculo capitulorum cüspidato.
Neck. Meth. Musc.p. 192-
H Y PN UM foliisovatis lanceolatis, carinatis, apicibus capsuliferis. Hall. Helv.n. 1795.
MUSCUS squamosus, foliis acutissimis in aquis nascens. Vaill. Par. p. 140. t. 3. f . 5.
■ ß . incrassatus; foliis ovatis, concavis, obtusis.
ß. TRICHOSTOMUM fontinaloides. Turn. Muse. Nib. Spic. p. 41.
u. TRICHOSTOMUM fontiualoides. Sm. FI. B r it. p. 1248.
FONT INAL IS minor. Hedw. Fund. Muse. ml. 2. p. 96. Linn. Sp. Pl..p. 1571. Syst. N at. ml. 2.
p. 1324. JVeb. Sp. FI. Goet. p. 35. Leers FI. Herb. n. 826.' Wigg. Prim. FI.
Hols. p. 75. Roth Germ. ml. 1. p. 478. Engl. Bot. t. 557. Gunn. Fl. Norv. n. 969■
Retz. Prodr. FL Scand. n. 1187. Muller F L Fred. p. 196. Huds. Angl. p. 398.
Light/. Scot. ml. 2. p. 695,. Dicks. Hort. Sicc. fasc . p. 1. All. Ped. vol.Q.p 309.
Crantz Inst. p. 59• . Lamarck Diet. ml. 2. p. 5 18. With. Bot. A rr. ed. 3. ml. 3.
p. 788.-ed. 5. ml. 3. p. 967. *:
FO NTINALIS minor foliis triangularibus, minus complicatis, capsulis in summis capitulis sessilibus.
R aii Syn. p. 79.
FONT INAL IS triangularis minor, carinata, e cymis capsulifera. Dill. Musc.p. 257. t. S3, f 2.
Class and Order. CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI.
^ [ N atural Order. CALYPTRATÆ, Mohrtfwfei-
Gen. Char. Calyptra hinc longitudinaliter fissa. Peristomium simplex, laciniatüm ; laciniis capillaribus,
tortis, basi hie illic anastomosantibus.
Radix omnino basilaris, minquam foliorum ad alas orta,
e tomento constans denso, ferrugineo, brevi.
CaüLES ex eadembasi plurimi, laxi, debiles,, fluitan tes,
palmares vel spithamæi, aut etiam quod rarius
accidit, dodrantales, leniter flexuosi, ramis vage
sparsis, nec 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, madore
patentia, flexuosa, siccitate lurida, appressa, et
spiraliter torta; inferiora aqua sæpius ita corrosa,
ut nervus tantummodo restât et setacea videan-
tur, quod in reliquis etiam foliis interdum accidit,
unde planta faciem longe alienara induit.
Flores Masculi, ut Hedwigii verbis utar, alares, raro
solitarii, sæpius gemelli quadrimellive, foliis ho-,
rizontalibus cincti sex ovato-acuminatis, concavis,
prorsus enervibus ; hos ego nunquam vidi.
Früctiflcatio Foeminea lateralis, sed ramorum
propriorum pei'brevium ad apices sita, foliis im-
mersa perichætialibus, lanceolatis, immarginatis,
uninervibus, quos non modo
Setas exuperant breves, superne incrassatas, fuscas,
Capsulas his impositas oblongas, loeves, dilute viridi-
fuscas, demum omnino fuscas.
Operculum conico-acuminatum, croceum.
Calyptra pyramidata, lutescens, hinc longitudinaliter
fissa, tarnen recte secedens, basi in plurimas lacunas
perbreves, latas, obtusas, enormiter fissa.
Peristomium dilute sanguineum, rigidum, basi mem-
brana integra, cui dentes insident plurimi per-
longi capillares, leniter torti, infra vage anastomosantes,
aut etiam reticulatim quasi transversis
obliquisve trabeculis connexi, ut nunc duo, nunc
très quatuorve mutuo inter' se nexu juncti repe-
riantur : tales modo ipse vidi, speciminibus plu-
rimis caute sub microscopio observatis. Hed-
wigius autem, quern sequitur etiam Mohrius, peristomium
quodammodo discrepans describunt
depinguntque, nempeedentibus constans sedecim
basi perforatis, simplicibus, bi- tri- quadrifidis in
crura longa, 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 Iledwig, axillary, rarely
solitary, often in pairs and sometimes in fours,
surrounded by six horizontal, ovato-acuminate,
concave, altogether nerveless leaves: but these
Female Fructification lateral, but situated at the
apices of very short proper branches, immersed
in the lanceolate, immarginate, one-nerved pe-
richajtial leaves: these not only exceed in length
the
Fruit-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
Operculum conico-acuminate, croceous.
Calyptra of a pyramidal figure, yellow, on one side
cleft longitudinally, yet not falling oft' obliquely;
at the base cut irregularly into many very short,
wide, obtuse laciniie.
Peristome 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.