fountain apple moss

alternative fountain apple-moss

1. uncountablePhilonotis fontana, an epilithic moss in the family Bartramiaceae.

   Philonotis fontana, the fountain Apple Moss, is common near springs and in wet places, and has stems 1-6 in., with reddish-black radicles ; leaves ovate-acuminate, short ; nerve almost excurrent ; perigonial leaves, obtuse, nerveless […]

   1883, The Microscopical News and Northern Microscopist, volume 3

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   The moss was tall, its stems measuring three or four inches, branched and matted together; the leaves were broad and tapering, of a yellow-green colour; and the long fruit-stalks bore large round reddish urns. It was undoubtedly the Fountain Apple moss (Bartramia fontana, fig. 9).

   1861, Margaret Plues, Rambles in Search of Mosses, page 39

   Flora in spring reaches of the Po River is represented by species associated with clear waters and constant discharge, including thick cushions of epilithic mosses such as Schleicher's thread-moss (Bryum schleicheri) and the fountain apple-moss (Philonotis fontana) […]

   2009, Klement Tockner, Urs Uehlinger, Christopher T. Robinson, Rivers of Europe, →ISBN