Page:Icones muscorum.djvu/48

36 FISSIDENS EXIGUUS, Sulliv.

Tab. 23.

perpusillæ, annuæ, laxius densiusve gregariæ, flavovirides.

sublinearis, erectus vel declinatus, basi sola radicans.

4–6-juga, in caulibus erectis explanata, in declinatis ad unura latus vergentia, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, superiora inferioribus multo majora, immarginata, integerrima; lamina apicali duplicaturam æquante, dorsali ad basin folii evanida; costa subflexuosa fere ad apicem attingente.

dioici: masculi diphylli in plantis femineis similibus terminales; antheridiis 3–4; paraphysibus nullis.

terminalis, erecta, oblongo-ovalis, in pedicellum mediocrem defluens; peristornii dentibus ad medium fissis; operculo rostellato; calyptra dimidiata.

Stones in moist and shaded ravines, dry channels of woodland brooks, &c.—Common.

Resembles the European F. exilis, but that has subserrulate leaves and a monoicous inflorescence.

TAB. 23.—